Overview

• Headley, now 92, was convicted by a Bristol jury on June 30 and received a life sentence with a minimum 20-year term on July 1.
• Investigators matched semen from Louisa Dunne’s blue pleated skirt and a palm print on her window frame to Headley during a 2023 cold-case review.
• His DNA had been entered into the national database in 2012 after an unrelated incident, allowing modern forensics to revisit archived evidence.
• He was previously jailed in 1978 for the rapes of two women and multiple burglaries before an appeal reduced his life term to seven years.
• The Crown Prosecution Service called this one of the UK’s oldest cold cases solved and the National Crime Agency is now probing potential links to other unsolved crimes.