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The Sun
2 days ago
- The Sun
Moment ‘killer', 92, moans ‘I'm sick, not well at all' as he's arrested 60 years after ‘rape and murder of pensioner'
SHOCKING footage shows the moment cops arrested a 92-year-old man for a murder carried out nearly 60 years before. Video caught on police bodycam saw Ryland Headley being detained at his home for the murder of Louisa Dunne in what was Britain's oldest cold case review. 4 4 Headley allegedly broke into the Bristol home of Louisa Dunne, 75, in June 1967 before attacking her. A trial into the killing of the pensioner remains ongoing. Now, Avon and Somerset Police have released a video of Headley's arrest, which are the first images of the defendant. Headley can be heard moaning "I'm sick" as police burst into his home in the video which was shown to a jury. In footage, a startled looking Headley asks cops: "Where are you getting this from?" as he is arrested. In 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 then tells cops: "I've just got up and I'm very sick. I'm very sick. Not well at all." The statled 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?" Pathetic last days of Rose West revealed as serial killer monster can barely walk, has no friends & has new fake identity 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. "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 neighbours 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. Her skirt, along witih other items from the scene, were kept in storage and were recently re-examined 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. 4
News.com.au
3 days ago
- News.com.au
‘Must have terrified her': Warren John McCorriston learns fate 45 years after attempting to abduct teen for sex
A teenager was just 500m from her house when she turned to see a man running towards her in a terrifying attempted abduction, with the cold case finally closed more than 40 years later. Warren John McCorriston was arrested in January 2024 over the attempted abduction of a teenage girl in the Lake Macquarie region of NSW in 1980. The NSW District Court was told how the girl had caught the bus home after seeing a movie with her boyfriend on that night, 45 years ago. Her boyfriend got off before her, and the bus dropped her just 500m from her home. 'The street was dark. As she walked out a car pulled in front of her,' Judge Timothy Gartelmann told a sentence hearing on Thursday morning. Walking past the car, she heard footsteps behind her and turned to see McCorriston running towards her. She tried to run, but he grabbed her from behind and held her tight around her waist, telling her to go with him. When she screamed, he threatened her by saying he had a knife: She couldn't see one, and there was no evidence he had one. 'But the threat of it must have terrified her,' Judge Gartelmann said. McCorriston kept asking the teen to go to his car with him, telling her 'he just wanted her to come to the car – he didn't want to do anything but sit in the car and talk'. However, it was agreed that he was trying to force her into the car so he could have sex with her. McCorriston, who was then 18, just a couple years older than the girl, eventually let her go and she ran towards her house before stopping short – she didn't want him to see where she lived. He drove away before pulling a U-turn, staring towards her after she crossed the road. 'She stood her ground. He got back into his car and drove away,' Judge Gartelmann said. She waited for a little in case he came back before going home. The court was told that she didn't tell her father about it as she thought she wouldn't be allowed out again if she did. The teen told some of her friends about it but didn't report it to police until 2023 – 43 years after the attempted abduction – after watching a television show about a girl who'd gone missing in the mid 1990s. She managed to identify McCorriston after she was shown a series of photographs, including one of McCorriston taken in the mid 1980s. The court was told McCorriston initially didn't remember attempting to abduct the teenager, with a psychologist noting he came to accept he committed the offences after reading the brief of evidence. He pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, detain for advantage and cause injury to victim, and detain for advantage without causing injury to victim. The psychologist also reported McCorriston had said therapy helped him understand the trauma he'd caused the victim, and he expressed feelings of guilt and remorse. However, sentence assessment report notes said he'd initially tried to justify the offence by saying his father's negative example had influenced him. The court was told McCorriston had a difficult life and had undergone several rehabilitative courses and programs while in custody for other offences. He had also been convicted of other offences, including sexual and violent offences in the early 1980s and late 1990s; however, he hadn't been convicted or sentenced for any offence at the time of the attempted abduction. Judge Gartelmann said the 'extensive' delay in proceedings didn't warrant mitigation in sentencing but McCorriston's progress in rehabilitation did, and the likelihood of him reoffending appeared to be low to moderate. McCorriston was sentenced to two years and three months' imprisonment, with a non-parole period of one year and three months. However, he was in custody for other offences at the time of his arrest, with Judge Gartelmann ruling that McCorriston had already served the non-parole period. He directed McCorriston to attend the registry to authorise his release on Thursday morning. His sentence has 12 months remaining, expiring on February 7, 2026.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Daily Mail
Moment 92-year-old is arrested at home over murder and rape of a pensioner almost 60 years ago
This is the moment a 92-year-old man was arrested at his home for the alleged rape and murder of a woman nearly six decades ago. Police bodyworn camera footage captured pensioner Ryland Headley being detained on suspicion of killing of Louisa Dunne in what was Britain's oldest cold case review. A trial into the murder of the 75-year-old in Bristol on June 27, 1967 remains ongoing. But after the video of Headley's arrest was shown to the jury, Avon and Somerset Police released the clip publicly - sharing what are the first images of the defendant. In the 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 he is told it's the police, he 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.' 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. '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 was told Louisa's body was found by neighbours the morning after the horror attack in 1967. However, in the decades that followed no-one was brought to justice over her death, Bristol Crown Court heard. Her skirt, along witih 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.
The Independent
3 days ago
- The Independent
Man responsible for 1967 murder was identified 58 years on, prosecution alleges
A 92-year-old man believed he would never have to answer for raping and murdering a widow in her home almost 58 years ago, prosecutors have alleged. Louisa Dunne, 75, who had been twice widowed and lived alone, was found dead in her front room in Britannia Road, Easton, Bristol, by neighbours on the morning of June 28 1967. Police launched an investigation, including taking palm prints from 19,000 boys and men to compare against one found on an upstairs window at Mrs Dunne's two-bedroom terraced home. They boxed up evidence taken from the scene, as well from Mrs Dunne's body at the city mortuary, but were unable to identify a suspect. Last year, the blue skirt worn by Mrs Dunne when she died was forensically examined and a DNA match was allegedly made to a man called Ryland Headley, now 92. Headley, of Ipswich, Suffolk, is on trial at Bristol Crown Court where he denies charges of rape and murder. He has declined to give evidence. On Wednesday, Anna Vigars KC, for the prosecution, and Jeremy Benson KC, for the defence, gave their closing speeches to the jury. Mrs Vigars said that despite detectives trying to solve the case in the 1960s, it was left with Mrs Dunne's death certificate reading 'murdered by person or persons unknown'. She said police were able to establish that Mrs Dunne had been fatally strangled by a scarf, with a hand forcibly held over her mouth, that she had been raped, and a window had been forced open at her home. 'That's the evidential picture from 1967. All of the clues but none of them, then, capable of being revealed,' she said. 'But now there is a rather more complete picture, thanks mainly to the advances that modern science has made. 'It is now known that skirt has sperm from Ryland Headley.' Jurors have heard that the DNA extracted from the semen is one billion times more likely to be that of Mr Headley than anyone else. Earlier this week, they watched a video of officers attending Headley's home in November last year – telling him they had investigative material that linked him to the 1967 murder. He said: 'I don't know what you are talking about. Very strange, very strange.' Statements were also read from two women whom Headley pleaded guilty to raping in October 1977. He was released from prison for those offences around three years later. One 84-year-old woman, in a witness statement taken at the time, told how she had been asleep in bed when she awoke to Headley's hands over her face. The widow told him: 'Please go, haven't you got a mother? Surely you wouldn't hurt an old lady of 84?' Headley, who had broken into her home through a window, threatened to strangle the woman if she did not comply. The second victim, aged 79, said she was left 'stiff with fear, scared to death' when Headley entered her bedroom as she slept. She told him: 'Leave me alone, would you want anybody to do this to your mother or sister?' He threatened to kill the woman, also a widow, if she did not follow his instructions or made a sound. Mrs Vigars told the jury these accounts give an 'insight into what happened' on the night Mrs Dunne was murdered, with similarities between the three cases. The barrister, concluding her closing speech, said: 'Mrs Dunne's home was broken into by a man who had sex with her without her consent. He left her dead on the floor, strangled and suffocated. 'He was a man who lived locally at the time but then uprooted his family and moved miles away. 'He no doubt thought he would live out his days without having to answer for what he did 58 years ago. 'But there is now, finally, a completion to the death certificate of Mrs Dunne. No longer murder by person or persons unknown. But murdered and raped by Ryland Headley.' Jeremy Benson KC, representing Headley, said his client had 'no recollection' of having visited Mrs Dunne or having sexual intercourse with her. 'He certainly didn't rape her and he didn't kill her,' Mr Benson said. Mr Benson told jurors that statements taken in 1967 would have then been tested under oath in court but due to the passage of time, this was not possible now. He described Headley's previous rape convictions as 'shocking' but said both women were left 'unscathed' despite his threats of physical violence. He told the jury: 'This is a sad and tragic event that took place some 58 years ago. 'Mr Headley was convicted of awful crimes in 1977. He pleaded guilty to them. He was being interviewed about one and he voluntarily confessed to the other. He told police at the police station that he was responsible. 'Since that time, since he was released in about 1980, he hasn't been charged or convicted of any crimes until he was charged with these matters, when some 44 years had gone past. 'Records and documents that could show where Mr Headley was on that fateful night have long gone.' The trial continues.
CTV News
5 days ago
- CTV News
Convicted killer David Snow charged in connection to 1991 cold case murder
Convicted killer David Snow charged in connection to 1991 cold case murder David Alexander Snow has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the death of Angelien Josephine Quesnelle. Steve Ryan has the details.
