Mr Price said money was missing from Mrs Crown’s handbag and Newton was “spending freely” on January 13, playing a fruit machine on two visits to Wisbech Ex-Servicemen’s Club on January 13.
“Vital evidence was retained from the 2013 crime scene, in the form of DNA under the fingernails of Una Crown’s right hand,” he said.
A 70-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of 86-year-old widow Una Crown in 2013 after DNA which matched his profile was found on her nail clippings.
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.
Mrs Crown’s body was found in her hallway on January 13 by John Payne, the husband of her niece Judith Payne, who had driven to collect her to take her for Sunday lunch at their house.
