A MAN has been charged with murdering a widow who was discovered along with her throat slit at dwelling in 2013.
Una Crown, 86, was found in a pool of blood by members of the family at her bungalow in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
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The retired postmistress had been knifed within the neck and chest and her garments have been set alight in a bid to disguise her accidents.
David Newton, 69, has now been charged with murdering Una – 11 years after the horror.
Newton, of Journal Shut, Wisbech, has been remanded in custody and is because of seem at Cambridge Magistrates’ Courtroom this morning.
Una was final seen alive two days earlier than the January 2013 killing when she went purchasing.
Police initially believed Una had died from a coronary heart assault when she unintentionally set herself alight when making an attempt to extinguish a hearth from a defective hob ring.
Officers who attended the horror scene additionally believed the marks on her throat have been brought on by the stress from a shawl as her physique hit the ground.
However an inquest into Una’s loss of life in 2015 heard Cambridgeshire Police missed “clear indicators” of her homicide throughout the preliminary investigation.
The power later apologised and launched a homicide probe after a autopsy revealed she had died from stab wounds.
The power stated they believed the widow knew her killer as they appealed for info in January.
The charity Crimestoppers additionally put up a £20,000 reward in an try and catch the killer.
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