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00:01Hello, Police Emergency.
00:08No, Police, no me work.
00:21We'll work around the clock if it means putting criminals behind bars.
00:24It only takes that one mistake for us to catch you.
00:27Crime doesn't pay, you will be caught.
00:30No, Police, no, Police, no.
00:39Murders can be the most challenging crimes detectives investigate.
00:43Some can remain unsolved for decades.
00:46But with determined police, resolute families and advanced forensics,
00:51the chance to catch the killers on even the coldest of cases has never been higher.
00:57In 2013, Cambridgeshire Police launched a murder inquiry that would take them years to solve after an 86-year-old widow was found dead in her home.
01:10I can't imagine what she went through.
01:15It must have been horrendous.
01:19The fear of when she took her last breath.
01:24How much did she feel?
01:34Una Crown and her husband Ron lived together in Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire for 40 years until Ron sadly passed away in 2009.
01:43They married in 1948 and ran a village post office together.
01:48Yeah, they had a very happy life, I have to say.
01:52She really did enjoy life as she did well right up to the end.
01:58Friday 11th of January 2013, Una was collected by John and Judith and taken out to Tesco's to do some shopping.
02:12She'd have her coat on ready and she used to say,
02:16do you know you're the first person I've seen this week?
02:19It was like an outing.
02:21She would see people, it was company to her.
02:2537.20 then, please.
02:28Could I have £40 cash back?
02:31Una returned to her home in Magazine Lane and she was never seen alive again.
02:48On Sunday 13th January, Una's nephew-in-law, John, arrived as usual to take her for lunch.
02:55When he got no reply, he went to the neighbour to get a spare key.
03:00Aunty?
03:02I opened the front door.
03:04When I pushed it open, there was Una lying face down on the floor.
03:12The smell from the house was terrible, burning smell.
03:15Her clothing was burnt.
03:18The neighbour called 999.
03:21Please don't touch anything at the moment.
03:23Hang on, hang on, she's had a fire, what's this?
03:26She's had a fire.
03:29There's a small amount of burning stuff near a radiator.
03:34I don't know, there's something weird.
03:37Got police officers on the way there now.
03:40Una was pronounced dead at the scene by the paramedics.
03:46The initial thought was that this was an accident.
03:51There wasn't any signs of forced entry either via doors or windows.
03:57One of the hobs in the kitchen was still warm.
04:01She'd maybe been making a cup of tea or something like that on the hob.
04:04And the tea towel that she had had caught light.
04:10There were three seats of fire.
04:12One was by Una's bedroom and bathroom.
04:14Another was on the tea towels in the corner of the kitchen by the back door.
04:18And another fire was around Una's body.
04:23The rest of the bungalow was absolutely immaculate with nothing out of place.
04:29Three days later, the pathologist's examination of Una's body
04:34discovered she'd in fact been attacked with a knife.
04:38Una was stabbed a number of times in the neck and in the chest area.
04:43And then also some defensive marks on the right hand.
04:47So it looks like she'd fought her attacker.
04:50There wasn't a huge amount of blood at the scene.
04:53It may have been that Una was already on the floor when a lot of the stab wounds occurred.
04:57And also the fire may have destroyed some of the blood on the clothing and on the carpet.
05:02Now, this was a murder inquiry.
05:05The news that 86-year-old Una had been stabbed and killed devastated the family.
05:18It absolutely haunts me.
05:20I can't imagine why anyone would want to do it.
05:24She wouldn't have stood a chance.
05:26I just can't believe.
05:28I find it very, very hard to come to terms with it all.
05:33Well, I shall never, never come to terms with it.
05:37Heartbreaking.
05:40Una's well kept home was now a crime scene.
05:57And officers set about plotting her last known movements.
06:01Saturday, the 12th of January, Una was in the bungalow at Magazine Lane.
06:10We know that she'd had a dinner early because she spoke to her next door neighbour on the telephone around 5pm.
06:17Yeah.
06:18Yeah, I'm fine.
06:20And that's the last time anybody heard from Una.
06:23The bed in the house was made, it was all immaculately made, and Una was still wearing daytime clothing.
06:35Putting all that together suggested to us that the murder took place between 5 o'clock and 10 o'clock.
06:42Una's normally quite security conscious, wouldn't open the door to a stranger.
06:48Una was stabbed a number of times.
06:51And then when she was lying face down on the floor, there was an attempt made to burn her body to try and hide evidence.
07:01It was a really brutal attack on a little old lady who'd done nothing to harm anybody.
07:09Police also discovered that the £40 she'd taken out was missing, but no other valuables had been taken.
07:16DNA samples taken from the scene didn't help identify any suspects, and so police appealed to the public for help.
07:29Let's talk for a minute about the weapon, you know, we know she put up her hands, she was injured in the neck, she was at one point stabbed straight through the heart.
07:42From her injuries we're able to establish it's probably a long bladed kitchen knife, 25 centimetres long, and we haven't found that so I need to find it.
07:50Detective Moore was a sergeant at the time, and led the house to house inquiries.
08:00The answer for these types of crimes usually lays in the community.
08:07People locally were really shocked.
08:09People know each other, they don't want to believe that this could have happened.
08:14A number of names came to light during the investigation, but one name kept coming up.
08:27David Newton.
08:33David Newton lived just round the corner from Una Crown's address in Magazine Lane.
08:38And as far as we were aware, lived an ordinary life.
08:43He didn't work.
08:45Was known in the community, just sort of in and around Magazine Lane, he walked his dog.
08:50He went to the local servicemen's club.
08:57Some witnesses talked about just some really disturbing behaviour that had been exhibited.
09:01David Newton would watch his neighbour through the window and go into the house uninvited while she was getting changed, which obviously really shocked her.
09:15In terms of Una Crown, we know that David Newton did do some repair on her back door, so we know that he'd been into the house.
09:24In fact, he had a key for her house, and as there was no sign of forced entry, this was notable.
09:35David Newton was questioned.
09:38He said it was a largely unremarkable weekend, didn't really do anything.
09:42He had maybe gone out for a walk with a dog.
09:45He said that he didn't go to the ex-servicemen's club on Saturday the 12th or Sunday the 13th of January, because he didn't have enough money.
09:54But when officers interrogated his statement, witnesses gave a different story.
10:00Around eight-ish on Saturday the 12th of January 2013, we know that David Newton was in and around Magazine Lane.
10:09A witness described him tripping over some shopping bags.
10:15And the person said that he appeared drunk at that time.
10:18Not only was he near the scene of the crime at the time Una was killed, he'd lied about going to his local club, where he'd been spending more money than usual.
10:29On the CCTV, he was drinking beer and playing the fruit machine as well, so he seemed to have access to money at that point.
10:38We know that Una would have had cash in her purse, and ultimately there was nothing there.
10:44His bank records were checked, and we know that he paid in £80 into his bank, and that was unusual because it was the first time in over a year he'd paid anything into his bank account, and certainly it was a bit of a red flag for the investigation team.
11:00The evidence against Newton was strong but circumstantial, and without any hard proof he was at the scene, the police were left with no choice but to release him without charge.
11:12The case remained unsolved. But then in 2023, Cambridgeshire police took a second look at the forensic evidence.
11:22Would they finally be able to prove who the killer was?
11:25One hundred miles down the M11 in London, another unsolved murder, committed 40 years ago, is also being reopened by the police.
11:41She was very generous, very sweet, fun-loving. She's just a normal 15-year-old. She just liked pop stars, fashion.
11:58She was intellectual. She liked to write poetry.
12:03She was much quieter than me, although, you know, I did drag her into the mischievous stuff in life.
12:12Jackie and Cathy Montgomery grew up together in London in the 1970s.
12:18Jackie and I were very close as sisters. There was only 13 months between us, but there wasn't anything we didn't tell each other.
12:28My mum and dad split up, and I went to live with my mum, and she stayed with my dad.
12:33We wasn't that far apart, actually, about 600 yards away from each other, but, you know, and we used to meet up every day.
12:42I met up with Jackie on the Saturday in the daytime, and we went to the park.
12:52We sat there for about an hour, hour and a half, chatting away and laughing.
12:57Then she went home.
13:02I never saw her again after that.
13:06On the evening of Saturday the 31st of May 1975, Jackie's dad went out.
13:23Jackie, I'm off, love.
13:29Leaving her at home alone.
13:30When he returned in the early hours, he made a horrifying discovery.
13:45She had been stabbed five times to the front, and she had been stabbed once to the back.
13:56There was evidence that a struggle had taken place.
14:00The phone was off the hook.
14:02There was a chair that was overturned.
14:05She looked as though she'd been sexually assaulted.
14:07She also had the cord flex of an electric iron wrapped around her neck.
14:14And there were certainly signs that Jackie had fought for her life.
14:26It destroyed my life.
14:29I didn't know how to grieve.
14:31None of us did.
14:33This is the only photo the family have to remember 15-year-old Jackie.
14:38It destroyed my dad.
14:40Completely and utterly destroyed my dad.
14:43And I'd see him crying, and that man never cries about nothing.
14:47A very hard man my dad was.
14:49But it broke him.
14:55In the months before her murder, Jackie had spent time with her aunt,
14:59who had an abusive partner.
15:02His name was Dennis McGrory.
15:05He was violent to my auntie.
15:07Always drunk.
15:09Or on heroin.
15:12We knew straight away it was him.
15:14We knew before he was even arrested it was him.
15:18It is believed that on the weekend of Jackie's death,
15:22he found out that his ex-partner was in a relationship with somebody else,
15:26which may have fuelled his rage.
15:29It was believed, certainly by police at the time,
15:32that he was at the address trying to find his ex-partner.
15:37Where are you? I know you're here!
15:41Police suspected that when he discovered she wasn't there,
15:45he turned on Jackie.
15:46When he was detained, he had visible signs of injuries to his face,
15:56to his arms, to his hands.
15:58He explained to police he had been in a fight
16:02in the early hours of the 1st of June, 1975.
16:06He denied the offence and he denied being at the address
16:10at the time of Jackie's murder.
16:12In January 1976, 28-year-old McGrory stood trial for Jackie's murder.
16:19But the judge made an extraordinary decision at the start of trial
16:24and acquitted him, concluding that the evidence was all circumstantial.
16:28The police investigation team at the time were bitterly disappointed.
16:33They very firmly believed that they had the right man.
16:36He was laughing in the dock.
16:41He was big, like a Cheshire cat, smiling.
16:44No one could believe it.
16:45It was so upsetting.
16:47For him to get off of it, as well as losing her,
16:51it was just a double whammy.
16:54I just wanted justice for my sister.
16:57That's all I've ever wanted.
16:58For nearly 40 years, Jackie's family lived with the knowledge her killer had walked free.
17:11Then in 2015, a television programme gave Cathy fresh hope.
17:15I was watching a documentary on the TV, sitting in bed, and it was about this woman.
17:22And she managed to get the murderer of her daughter re-arrested.
17:29And they called it double jeopardy.
17:32Well, my mouth just dropped.
17:34In 2005, a new law had come into force in England and Wales, allowing a suspect to be tried again for the same crime if there was new and compelling evidence.
17:46The first thing in the morning, I rang up this Linton police station.
17:51And I said, I'd like to report a cold case murder.
17:55The police agreed to reopen the case.
17:59DC Jane Maskell worked on the cold case homicide team.
18:03There's only one opportunity to reopen a case under double jeopardy legislation, and the bar is set very high.
18:11We could not approach Dennis McGrory.
18:16We could not conduct any sort of investigation in relation to himself.
18:22A check was done with our registry to see whether or not we still had any files relating to the murder of Jackie.
18:30We had a box of original statements that were made by witnesses at the time.
18:34And it was apparent that Dennis McGrory had the motive, the inclination, and was really the only person who could have realistically committed this crime.
18:47But they needed more than this to bring charges.
18:51Forensic evidence would be the only new and compelling evidence which would then show that McGrory had been at that scene at the time.
19:01We subsequently found that within the forensic files, there were still swabs.
19:07Everything hinged on us getting DNA.
19:11Incredibly, the 30-year-old swab was exactly what they needed.
19:15I received a phone call from the scientist who told me that he had found DNA on the swabs from 1975 matched that of Dennis McGrory.
19:2743 years after Jackie's murder, and the police were finally in possession of evidence to close in on her killer.
19:36It was actually quite emotional receiving that phone call.
19:41It was an incredible breakthrough for us.
19:45The evidence that we now had suggested very strongly that Dennis McGrory had not only murdered Jackie, he had also raped her.
19:54Now in his early 70s, Dennis McGrory was brought in for questioning.
20:01He presented as being physically, mentally frail.
20:05He appeared to have a number of health issues.
20:09However, he was a violent man.
20:11He was a bully, and he had thought he'd got away with Jackie's murder for the last 45 years, where he was free to do whatever he wanted to do.
20:19Police discovered other violent offences that McGrory had committed over the intervening years, which all painted a picture of a dangerous man.
20:31On the 2nd of February 2021, 46 years after Jackie's murder, the Court of Appeals quashed McGrory's acquittal due to new and compelling evidence.
20:42I can't even put into words how I felt. The relief of my heart, it just melted.
20:52In December 2022, Dennis McGrory was finally found guilty of the rape and murder of Jackie Montgomery.
21:02He was sentenced to life with a minimum of 25 years.
21:06You put Jackie through an horrific, violent and sustained ordeal in her own home, a place where she was entitled to feel safe.
21:18She must have been terrified.
21:20You have shown not one iota of remorse or compassion for Jackie or Jackie's family.
21:28I can only hope that your conviction and the sentence I pass will provide them with some closure, safe in the knowledge that you have been brought to justice and will hereafter live out your days in prison.
21:41It was a very emotional day to convict somebody who had conducted the most horrific attack on a 15 year old girl.
21:55It's a key message to people who think they've got away with something that happened a long time ago.
22:01We will still keep trying. We will still look at cases that are historic and we do have the means to be able to solve them.
22:09It's been a long time coming. A very long time coming.
22:16Now I know justice is done and he's sitting in prison.
22:20I feel great.
22:22It doesn't bring her back.
22:25But justice has been done.
22:27With one killer who thought he had got away with it now behind bars, Cambridgeshire police are determined to send the killer of 86 year old Una Crowne to jail too.
22:45It's always frustrating to know that whoever killed Una Crowne was walking around and they haven't been brought to justice.
22:55It was really important for the constabulary to be able to solve this case for the sake of the family and to get justice for Una.
23:03But with no concrete evidence placing Newton at the crime scene, the team needed a breakthrough.
23:10And that finally came nine years after Una's death when the cold case team re-examined the forensic evidence, calling on the help of DNA expert Claire Jarman and her team.
23:21In the case of Mrs Crowne, the main issues we had with that was there was a great deal of blood staining and we know that that can overwhelm any DNA from anybody else.
23:33The other issue was that many of the items were quite badly burnt and we know that can destroy DNA.
23:41We initially focused on her clothing and samples taken from her body to see if we could get a DNA profile.
23:50But we were unable to detect a clear unknown male profile.
23:55But innovations in forensic science meant they could now reassess the samples with more precision.
24:01Where Una was lying in the hallway, her right hand was clenched in a fist beneath her body, so it was in effect preserved from any of the fire damage.
24:13And the right hand also had defensive wounds, so we know that that hand was in contact with the assailant at some particular point during the attack.
24:22So we know that the evidence that could be on there is very, very important.
24:25We received the fingernail clippings of Mrs Crowne that had been taken at the time of her original post-mortem.
24:34And they then get submitted to the DNA profiling laboratory to carry out profiling tests on them.
24:39This showed, whilst there was a very high level of total DNA, most of which we assumed to be from Mrs Crowne, there was also a smaller amount of male DNA within that sample.
24:51This was a significant discovery. Police submitted the DNA from previous suspects, including David Newton, to the forensic biologists, who used a technique called YSTR profiling.
25:06Scientist Rachel Pollard is a specialist.
25:08While our DNA is stored on chromosomes, YSTR profiling looks at 23 different areas on the Y chromosome, so it's specific to male individuals.
25:21And they are very useful in targeting small amounts of male DNA in samples that are rich in female DNA.
25:28And we compared the profile we got from the fingernail clippings to several reference samples of suspects.
25:35The DNA under Una's nails matched David Newton.
25:44When the match came back to David Newton, there was certainly an element of shock and surprise, but it was reaffirming that David Newton was the prime suspect for Una Crowne's murder.
25:56Now with a clear DNA link, Cambridgeshire Police submitted one of their largest ever evidence bundles to the CPS for consideration.
26:05There were over 10,000 items of disclosure that needed to be reviewed.
26:10So we had to have dedicated officers, and I had a team of six at one point working solely on looking through the disclosure items.
26:17And it's a real painstaking review, and it took a number of months.
26:21At that point, we'd reached a threshold where CPS were happy to charge the case.
26:25On the 15th of April 2024, David Newton was rearrested and charged with the murder of Una Crowne.
26:35It felt very good to have David Newton in custody.
26:38There's a little bit of relief, but obviously the hard work is still ahead of you.
26:42The family were very pleased, but also a little bit overwhelmed with what happened, because obviously it was over 11 years since the murder.
26:49In January 2025, after a five-week trial, the jury found 70-year-old David Newton guilty of Una's murder, and he was given a life sentence with a minimum of 21 years in prison.
27:05This was a truly horrendous case. This is one that's never gone away.
27:09For more than a decade, there was a murderer out there that was never brought to justice.
27:14When I went into the major crime unit, the first thing my wife said to me was, you've got to solve this murder.
27:21So to actually finally end up being the senior investigating officer, and then ultimately to see justice served,
27:27I'm just immensely proud of the outcome that we managed to achieve for the family.
27:30Una, by the actions she took on that night, solved her own case.
27:35She fought her attacker. In doing so, the transfer of DNA evidence happened.
27:41The attack was brutal, horrific, and an assault on a defenseless, frail elderly widow.
27:49The verdict has prevented him from causing further distress and misery to others.
27:54Since her untimely death, three close family relatives, including her brother, have sadly passed away, not knowing that killer has been brought to justice.
28:05We'd like to thank all who have helped us get to this point, and we can now carry on with our lives knowing justice has been done.
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