A 75-year-old woman was arrested after 58 years of sexual assault and murder...A 92-year-old man has had a history of sexual assault on an elderly man
Jun 17, 2025
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British media Daily Mail reported that the Bristol Criminal Court recently held the trial of 92-year-old Leueland Headley, who was charged with rape and murder.
According to prosecutors, Louisa Dunn, then a 75-year-old widow, was found murdered after being sexually assaulted at her home in the Easton area of Bristol on the night of June 27, 1967. The suspect, Headley, was 34 years old at the time of the crime.
At the time, the victim was lying on a pile of clothing and died, and signs of strong pressure on his mouth and severe bleeding were confirmed.
Mr. Dunn was married twice and was a widow with two children.
When her appearance was not seen after the day of the incident, the neighbor felt strange and visited the house to discover the scene of the incident.
She was dressed, but her underwear was down to her ankles, and nylon stockings were wrapped around her neck. Autopsies revealed bleeding in both eyes, and there were scratches and lacerations on the lips. The prosecution judged that the cause of death was that the mouth was strongly covered with someone's hand.
The case, which remained unsolved for decades, marked a dramatic turning point in 2023 when police re-examined past evidence.
DNA was extracted and analyzed from semen detected in the victim's skirt and conspiracy, which was consistent with Headley's DNA. It was also found that the palm marks left on the window of the victim's home matched Hedley's palm.
At that time, the investigation collected fingerprints on men in nearby areas based on palm prints obtained at the crime scene, but it was not confirmed because Headley's address was outside the radius of the investigation. He left Bristol and moved to Suffolk shortly after Mr Dunn was killed, the investigation found.
Headley is also known to have had a history of sexual assault on elderly women in the 1970s.
According to prosecutors, in October 1977, he broke into the home of his 84-year-old widow and raped her, and in the same month, he committed the same crime against another 79-year-old woman.
In addition, he confessed to at least 10 thefts of nightlife from 1973 to 1978. A number of his fingerprints were found in these crimes, and he pleaded guilty to the rape cases.
In court, the prosecutor told the jury "This terrible crime of murdering an old man in his own house should never be forgotten, whether 58 days or 58 years later"The police never gave up this case"
Then "The victim was unable to defend himself, and the most socially vulnerable were targeted. Time has passed, but justice must be served," he stressed.
But Hedley didn't remember going to Mr. Dunn's house at the trial, never having sex, never killing him" countered.
The next trial is expected to be resumed soon, and the defendant Headley is likely to be sentenced to life in prison.
The case once again proved that along with advances in scientific investigation, decades-old unmade cases can be solved.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
