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Grave desecrated

Monday 05 October 1992 00:02 BST
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Vandals at a cemetery in Southampton dug up the grave of the comedian Benny Hill, and smashed the coffin lid in an apparent search for jewels. Colleagues of Hill, who died in April, described the act as 'despicable'.

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