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Jotted Down
Girl Murder
In His Diary
LONDON, Fri.-A 20-year
old youth who kept a "murder
diary" was sentenced. to death
at the Exeter Assizes yesterday
for killing a girl he confessed
to have secretly adored.
Brian Gordon Churchill work
ed in the same shop as Jeanne
Agnes Purnett (17) but never
told her he loved her because
he rarely spoke to her.
The curly-haired, moody
Churchill wrote an entry in his
diary: "She is my only pur
pose in life."
Four months before he stab
bed the girl on the upper deck
of an Exeter bus, Churchill en
tered in his diary:
"Because I am too old for
her she only laughed at me and
thought me soft. If I can't
have her, no-one will. I am
waiting for the day when we
are together again."
Police found the diary buried
in a wood on the outskirts of
the city after they arrested him.
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