Granddaughter Hunting what is believed to be Britain’s longest long -lasting cold case should ever be resolved Talking about the “far -reaching influence” of his grandmother’s death.
In June 1967, 75 -year -old Louisa Dunna was forced to enter her Bristol house and attacked her. Now -92 -year -old has been convicted of rape and murder 58 years after the crime after Avon and SummerSet detectives. DNA test,
Mary Denton, two -in -law’s mother -in -law, shared her grief that those who knew and loved their grandmother are not here to see that justice has been done.
He said, “My grandmother, Louisa Duna’s death has had a far -reaching impact in my family,” he said in a statement. Avon and Summerset Police“I was just 20 years old when my grandmother died and I am almost the same when she was killed.
“I have only one memory to meet my grandmother due to family conditions. I was 14 years old at that time and went to the hospital.
“My mother told me that Louisa’s house in Britannia Road was a place of social and political activity”, she continued. “My grandfather, Edwin Parker, was a member of the Early Labor Party and he loved my grandmother. Sadly, he died in 1945 and the social and political elements of my grandmother’s life went with him.”
The force shared a picture of Ms. Dunn and Mr. Parker together.
Ms. Danton continued: “Louisa’s cruel death had a great impact on my mother and her broad family. I don’t think my mother has ever recovered from it. Worry gave clouds to the rest of life.
“When people came to know about the murder, including friends, they were taken back – my experience has a stigma associated with rape and murder, so I have rarely talked to anyone about it.”
She said that since Headley was accused, she was emotionally struggling in ways that she could not guess because now she had to speak for those who are no longer alive and Ms. Duna could not see justice.
Avon and Summerset Police had kept Ms. Duna clothes and other forensic evidence to wait for progress in science. The case was re -investigated in 2023 and the blue skirt of Dunna was scheduled for testing in May last year.
The DNA results matched Headley, who had gone to Safoka since the murder and in 1977, two elderly women had been sentenced to jail for rape.
The trial concluded a pathologist that Dunna died of aspyxia, who was forcibly caught by hand, due to strangulation from a scarf and pressure on his mouth.
Swabs were taken from his body, which conducted a positive test for semen, but scientific examinations were limited at that time.
Headley of Clarence Road, Ipswich denied both allegations, but found guilty by the jury Bristle crown court After Monday afternoon, nine hours and 53 minutes of ideology. He did not give evidence.
Ms. Dunne, a mother-two, who had become a widow twice and lived alone, her neighbors found by her neighbors inside her house on the morning of 27 June. A woman was heard shouting a few hours before being found.
She used the front room as a bedroom and was lying on a pile of old clothes. The police found no evidence of any violent struggle in the house.
Headley will be sentenced by Mr. Justice Sweeting for two crimes on Tuesday morning, who told the jury: “It was a case that has been in the eyes of the public.
“This included many details that are not doubt. If you are called again for jury service in the next 10 years, you are entitled to refuse.”
