A man has been found guilty of murdering an 86-year-old widow and trying to set her on fire.
The body of Una Crown was found at her bungalow on Magazine Lane in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 13 January 2013. She had been stabbed four times and her throat had been cut.
David Newton, 70, who had denied murder, was charged in April 2024 after DNA evidence taken at the time was reviewed.
He has been convicted by a majority of 10 jurors to two following a trial lasting more than three weeks at Cambridge Crown Court.
The trial heard Newton, a retired kitchen fitter, had originally been arrested on suspicion of murder in January 2013 before being released without charge.
DNA matching Newton was found on nail clippings taken from Mrs Crown’s unburnt right hand in 2013, and they were re-examined 10 years later.
Mrs Crown’s body had been discovered in the hallway of her home after her niece’s husband had gone to collect her for Sunday lunch, but she failed to answer the door.
It is believed the retired postmistress had been killed the day before.
