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~Elizabeth~
06-28-2025, 03:55 PM
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This was the moment a shocked 92-year-old man was arrested at his home for a murder carried out nearly 60 years before.

Police body camera footage captured Ryland Headley being detained for the murder of Louisa Dunne in what was Britain’s oldest cold case review.

A trial into the killing of the 75-year-old in Bristol on 27 June 1967 remains ongoing.

But after it was shown to the jury, Avon and Somerset Police have released a video, which is the first images of the defendant.

In footage, a startled-looking Headley asks cops: “Where are you getting this from?” as he is arrested.

The video starts with officers turning up to his home in Ipswich, Suffolk, and asking if Headley can open up his door.

He responds by asking, “Who are you?” and then, when told it’s the police states, “No, no. You can’t come now. What do you want to come in for?”

The female police officer adds: “I’ll explain, because it’s a bit sensitive so we’d like to come in to speak to you properly please. ”

Headley tells cops: “I’ve just got up and I’m very sick. I’m very sick. Not well at all.”



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Police body camera footage captured Ryland Headley being detained for the murder of Louisa Dunne in what was Britain’s oldest cold case review.
Avon and Somerset Police


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In footage, a startled-looking Headley asks cops: “Where are you getting this from?” as he is arrested.
Avon and Somerset Police


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Victim Louisa Dunne.
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The startled defendant then asks: “What is this about?”

The officer responds: “I’ll tell you inside because we don’t want other people hearing. So can we just come inside and get you seated?”

A second officer is heard telling him: “I’m here today because I’m arresting you on suspicion of the rape and murder of Louisa Dunne, which happened in Bristol, in June 1967.


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Blue skirt that led to the arrest in the Louisa Dunne cold case.
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“The reason I’m arresting you is because the police have investigative material that indicates that you were responsible for that rape and murder of Mrs. Dunne, which happened at Britannia Road in eastern Bristol, June 1967.”

Throughout, Headley repeats ‘yeah’ at regular intervals.

The officer then reads him his rights and Headley adds: ” Wait, wait. Where are you getting all this from?”

The officer states: “We have investigative information, so we have material that suggests that it is yourself and we need to arrest you and take you into custody so we can conduct an interview with you.

“So we can hear your events and interview you about it.”

The trial heard Louisa’s body was found by neighbors the next morning after the attack, but in the decades that followed no one was brought to justice over her death, Bristol Crown Court heard.

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Jurors have been told there is “extremely strong” scientific evidence to suggest semen samples found on the skirt came from her alleged murderer.
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Her skirt, along with other items from the scene, were kept in storage and were recently reexamined to try and make a breakthrough.

Jurors have been told there is “extremely strong” scientific evidence to suggest semen samples found on the skirt came from her alleged murderer.

Giving evidence, a forensic scientist told jurors that recent direct DNA matches linking semen samples from Mrs. Dunne’s pubic hair and the blue skirt suggested they were “one billion times” more likely to have come from Headley than from anyone else.

An earlier statement from pathologist Dr. Albert Hunt, who carried out Mrs. Dunne’s autopsy revealed the cause of her death as asphyxiation due to strangulation and pressure on the mouth.

Headley, of Ipswich, Suffolk, denies raping and murdering Ms. Dunne in June 1967.

The trial continues.


Shocking video shows cops arrest 'very sick' man, 92, for rape, murder of woman nearly 60 years ago (https://nypost.com/2025/06/26/world-news/shocking-video-shows-cops-arrest-very-sick-man-92-for-rape-murder-of-woman-nearly-60-years-ago/)

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Vanyx
06-28-2025, 04:28 PM
Throw the man off the bridge, I don't care he's illness or old age . He took an innocent life and pretty much lived a whole life without consequences.

AndreiDNA
06-28-2025, 05:34 PM
throw him under the jail

~Elizabeth~
07-07-2025, 06:12 PM
92-yr-old Man convicted of raping and murdering woman in 1967 gets life sentence (https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/europe/british-man-guilty-rape-louisa-dunne-cold-case-intl-latam-gbr?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirchttps://www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/europe/british-man-guilty-rape-louisa-dunne-cold-case-intl-latam-gbr?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc)


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A 92-year-old British man convicted of the 1967 rape and murder of a woman in her home has been sentenced to life in prison.

Ryland Headley was found guilty by Bristol Crown Court in southern England of the rape and murder of Louisa Dunne, who was 75 years old when Headley killed her nearly six decades ago.

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Headley was convicted on Monday and the verdict brought an end to a cold case that remained unsolved for 58 years. He was sentenced on Tuesday.

He was told during sentencing that he had committed a “pitiless and cruel act,” according to PA Media news agency.

The judge, Derek Sweeting, sentenced Headley to life in prison, setting a minimum term of 20 years.

“You broke into her home, you sexually assaulted her and in doing so, you caused her death,” Sweeting said, per PA Media.

“You may not have intended to kill, but you planned to rape her, and you brutally attacked her. When you did so, you met her screams and struggles in a force sufficient to kill. The nature of these offenses demonstrates a complete disregard for human life and dignity,” the judge added.



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A 92-year-old British man convicted of the 1967 rape and murder of a woman in her home has been sentenced to life in prison.

Ryland Headley was found guilty by Bristol Crown Court in southern England of the rape and murder of Louisa Dunne, who was 75 years old when Headley killed her nearly six decades ago.

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The CPS said Headley was convicted after pleading guilty of breaking into the homes of two elderly women in Ipswich and raping them. One of the women was in her seventies and the other in her eighties.


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That DNA profile was then matched with samples taken from Headley following his arrest for two rapes in 1977, leading to his arrest in November 2024.

Flashball
07-07-2025, 10:59 PM
Death penalty.