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A 92-year-old man on Monday was convicted of the rape and murder of a woman in southwestern England in what is thought to be the U.K.'s longest-running cold case ever to be solved. A jury at Bristol ...
Ryland Headley told he will die in prison after forcing open window at Louisa Dunne’s Bristol home and attacking her nearly six decades ago ...
A 92-year-old man has been jailed for life for the rape and murder of a woman in a case that took 58 years to solve. Ryland ...
The judge has sentenced Ryland Headley to life in prison. The minimum term is 20 years. "You will never be released. You will die in prison," the judge said. We're hearing from the judge, Mr Justice ...
Ryland Headley was 34 when he strangled 75-year-old widow Louisa Dunne at her home in Easton, Bristol, on June 28, 1967 before leading a double life that saw him dubbed "a family man" ...
A jury at Bristol crown court found Ryland Headley, then aged 34, guilty of attacking 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in June 1967. “Louisa Dunne died in a horrifying attack carried out in the place where ...
Ryland Headley claimed he was innocent but was caught after his DNA was found back in the 60s and re-tested with modern forensic techniques. He was found guilty after a trial at Bristol Crown Court of ...
Ryland Headley, 92, was convicted in June 2025. Headley was convicted of two counts of rape in the late 1970s, after he attacked women, aged 79 and 84, in Ipswich. He pleaded guilty to the charges ...
A 92-year-old man has been told he will die in prison after he was jailed at Bristol Crown Court for life with a minimum term of 20 years for the rape and murder of a woman in 1967, in what is thought ...
Ryland Headley must have thought he had got away with murder until police came knocking on his door almost 58 years after his ...
Ryland Headley, 92, was convicted of raping and murdering Louisa Dunne in 1967 after breaking into her home in Bristol. The ...
Ryland Headley, then aged 34, forced entry into the home of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in Bristol in June 1967 before attacking her. The mother-of-two’s body was found by neighbours inside her terraced ...