Jurors retire to consider verdict in trial of man accused of Una Crown murder Jurors have been sent out to begin their deliberations in the trial of a 70-year-old man who is accused of the murder of 86-year-old widow Una Crown in 2013.
He said that if the DNA was from Mr Newton, it may have been left on or around a lock on the back door of Mrs Crown’s bungalow which Mr Newton had helped to fix on a previous occasion.
Former kitchen installer David Newton, of Magazine Close in Wisbech, was charged last year with murdering Mrs Crown on January 12, 2013.
Retired postmistress Mrs Crown was found with her throat cut, stab wounds to her chest and her clothing set on fire in her bungalow in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on January 13, 2013.
Prosecutor Mr Price told jurors, when opening the case, that “male DNA, the profile of which matches that of David Newton” was discovered by scientists in 2023.
