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A 92 -year -old man will be sentenced to rape and an elderly widow in 1967.
Reland Hedley was convicted of two accusations by a jury in the Prestol Crown Court on Monday afternoon, while it is believed to be the longest cold case in the United Kingdom.
He was 34 years old when he was forced to open a window in Louisa Dunn’s house, 75, in Easton in Bristol in June 1967 before attacking it.
Mrs. Dan, a two mother, was found dead by the neighbors in the front room of her stands on the British Road on the morning of June 28.
The pathology specialist concluded that Mrs. Dan died due to suffocation due to suffocation and pressure on her mouth, and perhaps from a hand held on her.
Bristol Constabular, as the force at the time, launched a great achievement, as it took a palm of 19,000 men and children in an attempt to find one match on a window on the upper floor.
However, the case remained without a solution for more than 50 years until the AVON and Somerset police investigators sent elements of the original DNA test for the first time.
The semen regained a blue skirt that Mrs. Dan, who matches the Hedley DNA to a percentage that means it was more than a billion times more than anyone else.
When the left palm print was finally taken, in November of last year, the left print match at the scene.
Since the death of Mrs. Dan, Heidley was transferred to Epswich, where she was imprisoned for two elderly women after being forced on the open windows in their homes in October 1977.
Heidley, from Clarenis Road, Epswich, denied the rape of Mrs. Dan, but was convicted by a jury after nine hours and 53 minutes of deliberations.
Mr. Justice Swing will be sentenced to Tuesday morning.