Adviser accused of strangling PHD student girlfriend to death

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A Bath-based financial adviser is accused of murdering his 28-year-old girlfriend with an electrical cable.

The 32-year-old adviser, Paul Keene, strangled his girlfriend and mother of his 11-week old baby with an electrical cable in a drink fuelled rage, Bristol Crown Court has heard. Miss Miron-Buchacra and Keene, who were planning to marry in the autumn of 2013, had been together for two years but their relationship had recently soured, according to a report in the Daily Mail yesterday. On the day of Miron-Buchacra's death, June 23, 2012, the couple had exchanged a number of angry text messages as he spent the day at a boules tournament with colleagues from Advanced Investments. Miron-...

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