New probe into killing of Paul Bellion and Lorraine Glasby

The bodies of Paul Bellion, 29, a craft teacher at Rosemary Musker High School in Thetford, and his 28-year-old fiancée Lorraine Glasby, who taught design technology at Diss High School, were found in a maize field in Brittany in October, 1986.

Teacher Paul Bellion, from Garboldisham, whose body was found in a cornfield in France in 1986 (Image: Submitted)Lorraine Glasby, who was found bound and shot beside her fiance (Image: Submitted)The couple, who lived at Garboldisham, had been tied back-to-back and gagged, before being shot in the back of the neck with a hunting rifle and left in a field near Lanvallay.

Despite a high-profile missing persons investigation, which began after the couple were last seen on August 16 and included EDP reporters covering nearby villages in posters, followed by a murder investigation, no progress was made and the case was closed in 1991.

Earlier this year, French website Le Parisien said a new cold case unit was being launched to review more than 200 unsolved cases.

Another report this weekend said they include the killings of Mr Bellion and Miss Glasby, who had been staying in a cottage in Cram-Chaban, in the Charente Maritime region, 200 miles from where they were found.

The couple were believed to have been on their way back to catch a ferry home from the port of St Malo when they disappeared.

It said the  cold case centre reopened the file on September 8, although it was not clear whether fresh evidence had emerged.

Cram Chaban, the holiday cottage rented by Paul Bellion and Lorraine Glasby before they were murdered (Image: Dennis Whitehead)The case was reopened in 2005 after a fresh line of inquiry came to light but this was later dismissed by investigating judges.

At the time, Mr Bellion's mother Elizabeth, then 75, told the EDP she and husband Douglas had advised the prosecutor to drop the case.

"The investigation has just gone on and on," she said. "None of it can bring our son back. After 20 years of hurt and stress we now want some peace.

An EDP missing persons poster in the village where the couple stayed before they went missing and were later found murdered (Image: Dennis Whitehead)

"That they haven't found anyone after all this time is hugely disappointing. I don't think the French investigators have done all they can - I know they think they're doing their job but they haven't even found the bikes."