'Billion-to-one DNA clue' led to 92-year-old's arrest in UK'S oldest cold case

THIS is the skirt with vital DNA evidence that led to the arrest of a 92-year-old convicted rapist for the murder of a pensioner nearly 60 years ago.

- By Tom Bevan

Police released the image after it was shown to the jury in the trial of Ryland Headley, over the murder of Louisa Dunne, 75.

The victim was wearing the skirt when an intruder broke into her house in Bristol in June 1967 before raping and strangling her.

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Her body was found by neighbours but in the decades that followed no one was brought to justice over her death, Bristol Crown Court heard.

The defendant was jailed for the rape of two elderly women in 1977.