Thanks for the thread
@dotr, I can't remember hearing or seeing anything about this case.
I hope these links work.
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September 28, 1986
THE Cafe du Plomb at Lauziers on the bleak French Atlantic coast is deserted. The tourists have gone. But talk in the tiny village last week was of the British cycling couple who never made it home.
Six weeks ago the young couple had sat at a corner table overlooking the desolate stretch of coast two miles north of La Rochelle eating moules, drinking wine and writing postcards.
The patron, Georges Dufour, 67, said the couple arrived for lunch on August 16. 'They explained they were English teachers and were cycling to St Malo. ' They cycled away at 1.30pm - and have not been seen or heard of since.
Lorraine Glasby, 28, and her finance, Paul Bellion, 30, are both craft teachers and Lorraine had recently been promoted to deputy head of her department at Diss high school in Norfolk.
The couple had lived together for more than two years and had just bought an old coach-house in Garboldisham, Norfolk, which they planned to renovate before getting married.
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Out of sheer frustration with the casual way in which the French police appeared to be handling the case, the couples' relatives went to France last week.
Shortly after they were reported missing after failing to turn up for work on September 8, a French police officer told the parents quite bluntly: 'There are 50,000 reports of missing people annually in France. We see no reason to be worried. '
To force the police into action, Paul's parents, Douglas and Elizabeth Bellion and Lorraine's mother, Rosemary Glasby, and sister Patricia, registered a complaint of kidnap by persons unknown when they arrived in France on Tuesday.
They then set about retracing the couple's last known movements. Their search took them back to a vine-covered holiday cottage, called a gite, in the small farming village of Chaban, 20
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October 2, 1986
Relatives of Mr Paul Bellion and his fiancee Miss Lorraine Glasby, who disappeared on a cycling holiday in France in August, were waiting last night for information about the discovery of the bodies of a man and a woman found trussed back-to-back and gagged in a cornfield in Dinard, near Rennes.
A hunter out shooting discovered the bodies yesterday clothed in T-shirts, trainers and shorts. Police said it was not known whether they had been shot or had starved.
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October 3, 1986
Two British teachers found bound and shot dead in Britany this week may have been the victims of a murderer who has already killed another holiday couple.
Police in Dinan, south of St Malo, were last night awaiting positive identification of the bodies found in a shallow grave outside the town. Privately they are certain they are those of a Norfolk couple missing in France since August, Paul Bellion, 30, and Lorraine Glasby, 29.
The investigation into the killings was handed over by the local gendarmerie yesterday to the Brittany regional crime squad, based in Rennes, because of possible links with an earlier unsolved murder near Dinan.
Seven years ago a Belgian couple were found shot dead in the countryside on the other side of the town.
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Cartridges from a hunting rifle were found lying on them. 'The scene resembled an execution,' said one police source. Another police officer said: 'It is apparent that a cold-blooded killer is at large. '
More than 1,000 school-children mourned the two teachers at morning assembly yesterday.
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October 6, 1986
Two senior British detectives will today fly to France to join the hunt for the killers of two Norfolk teachers, amid mounting criticism of the French police's handling of the case.
The bodies of Lorraine Glasby, aged 28, and her fiance, Paul Bellion, aged 30, were found in a shallow grave in a Brittany farm field last week. They had been shot. Their half-naked bodies were tied back-to-back and they had been gagged with sticky tape.
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October 13, 1986
Frogmen made an unsuccessful search of the River Rance near Dinan in western France for the bicycles or belongings of the two British teachers, Lorraine Glasby and Paul Bellion, found murdered outside Dinan 10 days ago (Susan MacDonald writes).
The autopsy report has revealed that the couple were shot dead with a hunting rifle at the spot where they were found lying in a maize field.
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January 14, 1987
Two British schoolteachers were bound and gagged before being executed as they knelt together in a field in Brittany, France, an inquest at Diss, Norfolk, was told yesterday.
Miss Lorraine Glasby and Mr Paul Bellion, who were engaged, left their newly-bought cottage in Garboldisham, Norfolk, for a cycling holiday in Brittany last July.
The inquest was told that on October 1 their badly decomposed bodies were unearthed from shallow graves at Lanballoy, 20 miles from St Malo.
Mr Ernest Clark, the Diss coroner, was told medical evidence showed Miss Glasby, aged 28, a teacher at Diss High School, was shot in the leg before being shot in the head.
Her finace, aged 29, a teacher at Rosemary Musker High School, in Thetford, Norfolk, was shot in the head. Their killer or killers, who had not been caught, made off with their bicycles, passports, money and other documents.
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