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Man, 92, guilty of 1967 rape and murder of woman
BBC ^ | June 30 | BBC

Posted on 06/30/2025 10:41:04 AM PDT by RandFan

A 92-year-old man has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a Bristol woman in a case that remained unsolved for nearly six decades.

Louisa Dunne, 75, was found strangled on her living room floor by a neighbour on Britannia Road in Easton, Bristol, on 28 June 1967.

Convicted rapist Ryland Headley, of Clarence Road in Ipswich, has now been found guilty of Mrs Dunne's murder following a trial at Bristol Crown Court.

Senior investigating officer Det Insp Dave Marchant said Headley, who was in his 30s when he killed Mrs Dunne, had left "a legacy of misery and pain".

Despite the efforts of police investigating Mrs Dunne's death 58 years ago, no key suspect was identified.

Police collected about 19,000 prints from men and boys at the time with no success. They also made about 8,000 house-to-house inquiries and took 2,000 statements.

It was only when the case was re-examined by Avon and Somerset Police decades later that DNA testing of a swab that contained semen was linked to Headley.

Det Insp Marchant called him a "dangerous serial offender" with a "shocking and abhorrent history" and said there was a sense of "gravity" when police were told of the positive result.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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Oh wow this is the longest/solved cold case in UK history

Credit to detectives! Justice will always catch up with you.

BACK THE BLUE

1 posted on 06/30/2025 10:41:04 AM PDT by RandFan
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This is fake but gets the point across.



2 posted on 06/30/2025 10:43:54 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: RandFan

What’s he going to get? Life?


3 posted on 06/30/2025 10:44:32 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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Are we sure it wasn’t Hedley Lamarr?................


4 posted on 06/30/2025 10:45:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: RandFan

So, he’s already a convicted rapist? Weird. I don’t want to sound too cynical, but it would be convenient to “solve” a cold case simply by convicting a man already at death’s door, and already convicted of the same crime - especially if he’s already in prison (assuming he is).


5 posted on 06/30/2025 10:45:52 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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Harold Wilson’s fault.


6 posted on 06/30/2025 10:46:24 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Red Badger

Well, certainly it wasn’t Heddy!


7 posted on 06/30/2025 10:46:25 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Round Earther; All

What can you tell us about the year 1967?

6 decades almost

Another world....


8 posted on 06/30/2025 10:48:00 AM PDT by RandFan
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You watch he’ll be out in 20 years!!


9 posted on 06/30/2025 10:49:17 AM PDT by albie
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And how many convictions for Grooming Gang animals raping British children?

hmmmmm?

Still waiting . . .


10 posted on 06/30/2025 10:50:30 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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There have been convictions recently - 20 years late but it’s happening

There was a very big cover-up


11 posted on 06/30/2025 10:52:31 AM PDT by RandFan
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“What can you tell us about the year 1967?”

The government was routinely lying. That hasn’t changed.


12 posted on 06/30/2025 10:52:44 AM PDT by alternatives?
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I hope I can hear more even if hazy

... Nostalgic thread


13 posted on 06/30/2025 10:57:14 AM PDT by RandFan
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I can remember some things I did in 1967 but could not tell you for sure where I was on June 28 of that year (most likely at my parents' house)...but I definitely was not in England.

There was a "Blondie" strip once where Dagwood was mistakenly taken in for questioning by the police and they ask him what he was doing on a certain date many years in the past.

14 posted on 06/30/2025 10:58:01 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: RandFan

But Biden was too frail to be held to account for his crimes.


15 posted on 06/30/2025 11:01:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Probably won’t see jail.


16 posted on 06/30/2025 11:08:25 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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"Senior investigating officer "

I didn't know that they had investigators that specialized in geriatric cases.

17 posted on 06/30/2025 11:18:11 AM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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Nice but the UK lamer/chickenshit police should be going after todays criminals. Most of them immigrants. But the police there are too lazy and are fearful of going out in the field to do proper investigations. They are scared of bodily harm by these psycho-migrants. Many who carry knives.

Too many fat useless lady-policemen who are physically incapable of engaging with UK migrant criminals.


18 posted on 06/30/2025 11:25:05 AM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity)
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To: RandFan

Well said.


19 posted on 06/30/2025 11:48:44 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Verginius Rufus

I can remember some things I did in 1967 but could not tell you for sure where I was on June 28 of that year (most likely at my parents’ house)...
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I know exactly where I was... I was at home on the farm and at some point during the day, I was discussing what was going on in Israel with my Dad. On June 28, 1967, Israel formally annexed East Jerusalem following the Six-Day War. My Dad was watching the Six-Day war like a hawk as he figured that outside of the birth of Israel, this was the most important event in his lifetime that pertained to the eschatology laid out in Scripture.


20 posted on 06/30/2025 11:56:06 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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