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Romantic tragedy in Essex glade ends in murder
In a secluded Essex forest clearing Kenneth Welden, 24, and his fiancée Jacynth Bland, 21, were shot by a masked man after an evening out. Welden, just demobilised from the Royal Forces, died. Bland survived the attack as police probe a motive unclear and the killer fled into the night.
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