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Tui’s Southport staff describe ‘hell’


Staff at Tui’s Southport branch have told of the “hell” they experienced witnessing the murder of Cassie Hayes. Colleague Debbie Baker, who


Cassie’s mum, Tracy Hayes, outside court. Inset: Andrew Burke, who was sentenced to life for killing Cassie Hayes (top right)


Cassie killer sentenced to life after ‘savage’ murder


Ben Ireland ben.ireland@travelweekly.co.uk


The man who murdered Tui agent Cassie Hayes in front of staff and customers has been sentenced to life in prison for “an act of unspeakable savagery”.


Andrew Burke, 31, of Vincent


Street, St Helens, walked into Tui’s Southport branch wielding a bread knife and killed the 28-year-old mother in what the judge described as a “cold-blooded execution in public”. Hayes, who had a four-year-old


daughter, was serving a family at lunchtime when Burke entered the shop. The court heard he apologised to witnesses “for what I’m about to do” before the attack, carried out in front of two children,


aged 12 and nine. He then lay on the floor of the Chapel Street store, waiting for police to arrive. Burke pleaded guilty to murder


and having an offensive weapon in a public place at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday and was jailed for a minimum of 26 years. Prosecutor Gordon Cole QC


said: “This was a premeditated and planned attack carried out in a totally ruthless way in front of a number of people.” Burke had blamed Hayes, the partner of his ex-girlfriend Laura Williams, for the breakdown of his relationship. The day before the January 13


murder, he had been convicted of harassing Williams and warned against harassing Hayes by Merseyside Police. Burke’s sister told the court her


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“Our lives have been torn apart and we will forever be broken”


brother spoke of his intentions to kill Hayes with the “biggest knife he could find”, but said she dismissed his comments and told him to “grow up”. Judge Aubrey ordered that the


“brutal and harrowing” CCTV footage of the attack never be made public. Hayes’ family, who wore daffodil pins as a tribute to Hayes, who was from Alnwick in the northeast of England, left the courtroom as details of the attack were read out. Judge Aubrey said: “In my judgment, the killing was an act of unspeakable savagery.


worked with assistant manager Hayes for more than eight years, told the court: “Since that day I have become insular; I find I can only talk to my family or the other girls who were in that shop that day. “The memory of it is hell.” Manager Nicola Schofield said she was “left with guilt”. “I always believed I was a calm person,” she said. “Since this I am snappy, sensitive, hormonal and quick to tear up.” Tui’s Chapel Street store in Southport reopened on March 19 after closing following the murder on January 13. Hundreds of people attended a vigil in memory of Cassie Hayes outside the shop on January 20, as cards and flowers were laid outside.


“You had planned everything


you were about to do. Your actions were deliberate and calculated in the extreme. Nobody deserved to witness it; nobody ever deserved to be your victim. “You blamed her for the


breakdown of your relationship; it was a continuing and persistent fixation. As her sister has described, her smile, her laugh and her sense of humour have gone forever. You changed the lives of so many forever, and traumatised so many others.” David McLachlan QC,


representing Burke, said: “He does express his remorse at the hurt and upset he has caused everyone.” After Monday’s hearing, Cassie’s


family issued a statement that said: “Our lives have been torn apart and we will forever be broken.”


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