Islington: Pensioner guilty of killing woman 49 years on after DNA breakthrough
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A pensioner has been found guilty of strangling a young woman nearly 50 years ago following a DNA breakthrough.John Apelgren, now 80, hit sex worker Eileen Cotter, 22, in the face and throttled her before throwing her body out of his car in 1974, the Old Bailey heard.The manslaughter in Islington, north London, came two years after Apelgren indecently assaulted an 18-year-old guest at his own wedding, it was alleged.
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