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Article: BRIT COUPLE HACKED TO DEATH ON PARADISE ISLE; Murdered in home they had just bought for retirement.(News)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 14, 1998
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A BRITISH couple have been found hacked to death in bed on a beautiful holiday island.
Roy and Judith Eccles had only recently bought what they hoped was the perfect retirement home on Kefallonia, which lies off the southwest tip of the Greek mainland.
They were attacked as they lay asleep in their house overlooking the sea. They were repeatedly stabbed with knives. Police said they had stood no chance.
The slaughter has stunned the island. Several hundred other Britons live there and it is visited by thousands of British holidaymakers each ...