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A 16-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with murdering a woman whose body was found in a cemetery. A 16-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with murdering a woman found strangled in a cemetery.
Post-mortem tests found mother-of-two Lindsay Birbeck 47, was strangled. Mother-of-two Lindsay Birbeck, 47, was missing for almost two weeks before her body was found at Accrington Cemetery, Lancashire, on 24 August.
The teaching assistant's body was found at Accrington Cemetery on 24 August. The boy, from Accrington, who cannot be named because of his age, appeared at Blackburn Magistrates' Court.
The teenager, from Accrington, who cannot be named because of his age, appeared at Blackburn Magistrates' Court. He is accused of murdering the teaching assistant between August 12 and August 24.
The teenager was remanded into secure accommodation ahead of a hearing at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday.
Hundreds of people joined searches for Mrs Birbeck when she disappeared from her home in Huncoat, Accrington.
Last week, her children - Steven, 19, and Sarah, 16 - described her as "a great mum and wife, much-loved daughter, loving aunty and sister-in-law and a great friend too".