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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dan Haygarth

Cold case of woman’s murder in seaside town solved after 20 years due to DNA found on cigarette butt

A suspected murderer has been named using DNA from a cigarette butt, 20 years after a woman was killed at a seafront shelter.

Jennifer Kiely, 35, was found dead in Hollywell, Eastbourne, by the Sussex fire service in the early hours of 22 January 2005. She had been stabbed multiple times, had sustained an injury to the back of her head, and her body had been set on fire.

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