Holiday waiter kills British teen lover's mother over marriage snub

• Best friends Marion Graham and Kathy Dinsmore, both 53, found dead in forest with multiple stab wounds
• 17-year-old arrested over the double killing in 'row over marriage'
• Girl's father was 'never fully in favour' of relationship with Turkish teenager
• Youth arrested in connection with killings due before judge tonight

By DAVID WILKES, JAYA NARAIN and CHRISTIAN GYSIN

Last updated at 8:44 AM on 20th August 2011

waiter knifed two British women to death in Turkey after one refused to let him marry her 15-year-old daughter.

The obsessed 17-year-old lured the women to a secluded wood where he cut their throats. The girl, Shannon Graham, had been dating Recep Cetin for two years. He was said to be ‘totally infatuated’ and ‘very possessive’. 

Last week her mother Marion, 53, had a blazing row with Cetin, who uses the name Alex.

Suspect: Suspect Recep Celik, left, is accused of killing the mother of his girlfriend Shannon Graham, pictured, in a frenzied attack

Recep Celik is accused of stabbing Marion Graham (left) and Kathy Dinsmore, both 54 and from Northern Ireland 

After he kicked Shannon during an altercation, Miss Graham ‘went ballistic’ and told him never to lay a finger on her daughter again.

The waiter apparently responded by threatening to kill Miss Graham if she came between him and Shannon.

Last night Turkey’s state-run news agency Anatolia said Cetin had confessed to killing Miss Graham and her friend Cathy Dinsmore, also 53, who both came from Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.

 

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Shannon was being cared for by an Irish Embassy official. ‘She is in an absolutely dreadful state but we are doing our best to comfort her,’ a consular source said.

For several years Miss Graham, Miss Dinsmore and Shannon have been regular visitors to Turkey, where Miss Graham’s family own a holiday home in the popular seaside resort of Kusadasi.

Shannon and Alex started dating after she and her mother visited the restaurant where he worked.

Like many naive British girls who find love on holiday in Turkey, she was bowled over by his attention and soon found what started as a holiday romance turned into a marriage proposal. She travelled to see him every school holiday.

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