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The trial of sub-postmaster Robin Garbutt, who has been found guilty of the murder of his wife Diana. Mrs Garbutt was found dead in the living quarters of The Village Shop and Post Office, in Melsonby, near Richmond.

 

‘Murderer spun ludicrous story’

"I'm not going to let Robin enter my head again...Diana was a beautiful and caring girl and we loved her with all our hearts. Our loss is unbearable." - Diana Garbutt's mother, Agnes Gaylor.

10:00am Wednesday 20th April 2011

SUB-POSTMASTER Robin Garbutt told the same “ludicrous story from beginning to end” in attempt to get away with murder, a judge said yesterday.

The unbelievable evidence of a robbery that never was

CRIME SCENE: Police outside Melsonby Village Shop and Post Office.

10:00am Wednesday 20th April 2011

Robin Garbutt was yesterday convicted of murdering his wife. Joe Willis reports on how a jury saw through the lies of a “friendly and helpful” village sub-postmaster.

The hidden lives of a seemingly loving pair

SMILING COUPLE: Robin and Diana Garbutt during a night out together.

10:00am Wednesday 20th April 2011

To friends and neighbours, Robin and Diana Garbutt were a happy and contented couple, but behind the closed doors of their "idyllic" rural shop and post office their marriage was falling apart. Joe Willis reports.

‘Trying to make sense of it all’

VILLAGE MOURNS: Some of the floral tributes left outside the post office and shop hours after Diana Garbutt was found dead.

10:00am Wednesday 20th April 2011

Hours after Robin Garbutt was found guilty of murdering his wife in the flat above Melsonby post office, which they ran together, Vicki Henderson visited the village to find out people’s reactions to the verdict.

Counting down to a verdict of guilty

QUESTIONED: Robin Garbutt being interviewed by police during the investigation into the death of his wife, Diana.

10:00am Wednesday 20th April 2011

Sub-postmaster Robin Garbutt was yesterday convicted of the murder of his wife, Diana. Joe Willis looks at how the case unfolded.

News of Diana’s death spread like wildfire

Roads are closed in the village as crime scene investigation officers work the scene.

10:00am Wednesday 20th April 2011

NEWS spreads fast in small villages. Within an hour of the police arriving in Melsonby, near Richmond, on March 23, last year, The Northern Echo newsroom began receiving reports of an incident at the village post office and store.

Murder probe errors

REVIEW PLEDGE: Detective Superintendent Lewis Raw.

10:12am Wednesday 20th April 2011

DESPITE the guilty verdict, North Yorkshire Police admitted after the trial that mistakes had been made during the murder investigation.

Unsolved: 2009 raid on murder post office

UNSOLVED CRIME: Police outside Melsonby Village Shop and Post Office after reports of an armed raid in March 2009

9:59am Wednesday 20th April 2011

A YEAR before the murder of Diana Garbutt, an armed robbery was reported at Melsonby post office.

Robin Garbutt guilty of wife's murder

GUILTY: Robin Garbutt

2:10pm Tuesday 19th April 2011

SUB-POSTMASTER Robin Garbutt has been found guilty of beating his wife to death and sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum of twenty years.

Robin Garbutt denied his wife's murder to the last

IN COURT TODAY: Robin Garbutt is charged with the murder of his wife, Diana

3:00pm Tuesday 19th April 2011

SUB-POSTMASTER Robin Garbutt told the jury that he would never have hurt his wife, Diana.

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