92-year-old told he will die in prison

A 92-YEAR-OLD man will die in prison, after being convicted of the rape and murder of a widow in 1967, in what is thought to be Britain’s longest-running cold case to be solved.

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Ryland Headley was a 34-year-old railway worker, living with his wife in Bristol, when he forced open a window at the home of Louisa Dunne, 75, in the Easton area of the city overnight in June 1967.

Bristol Crown Court heard Headley raped the frail mother-of-two and killed her by strangling her with a scarf and holding his hand over her mouth. He evaded justice for almost six decades before cold case detectives at Avon and Somerset Police reviewed the case and sent items for forensic analysis last year - resulting in a DNA match to Headley.