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Date for Briton's US murder trial | |
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A British man accused of killing his wife and baby in the US will go on trial in June, a judge has confirmed. | A British man accused of killing his wife and baby in the US will go on trial in June, a judge has confirmed. |
Neil Entwistle, 29, from Worksop, Nottinghamshire, is charged with fatally shooting his wife and daughter in Massachusetts in 2006. | |
US judge Diane Kottmyer confirmed that the former IT worker's trial, expected to last three weeks, will begin on 2 June at a Massachusetts court. | |
If found guilty, Mr Entwistle faces a life sentence. He denies all charges. | If found guilty, Mr Entwistle faces a life sentence. He denies all charges. |
These include two counts of murder and related gun charges - carrying a firearm without a licence and possession of a firearm without a federal ID card. | |
Prosecutors allege Mr Entwistle shot and killed his 27-year-old wife, Rachel, and nine-month-old daughter, Lillian Rose, in the house they were renting in Hopkinton on 20 January 2006. | |
They say he then left the US for his parents' home in Worksop the following day. | |
But Mr Entwistle told police he panicked and fled to the UK after finding their bodies. | |
He was arrested on 9 February 2007 at Royal Oak underground station in London and extradited back to America. He was refused bail. |
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