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June 2, 2008

Jury selection begins in Entwistle murder trial

WOBURN, Mass. — Jury selection has begun in the trial of a British man accused of killing his wife and infant daughter in the family’s Hopkinton home.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers for Neil Entwistle started early this morning to weed through 170 potential jurors in Middlesex Superior Court. Entwistle nodded to them when introduced.

Twelve jurors and four alternates eventually will be chosen.

Prosecutors allege Entwistle shot his 27-year-old wife, Rachel, and 9-month-old daughter, Lillian Rose, in January 2006, then left the country for his parents’ home in England.

Prosecutors say Entwistle was despondent about his family’s deteriorating financial situation and dissatisfied with his sex life.

Entwistle has pleaded not guilty. He says he loved his family and returned to England to be with his parents after the horror of finding the bodies.

-- The Associated Press

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