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Emily Pennink and Miriam Burrell

Islington: Pensioner guilty of killing woman 49 years on after DNA breakthrough

A pensioner has been found guilty of strangling a young woman nearly 50 years ago following a DNA breakthrough.

John Apelgren, now 80, hit sex worker Eileen Cotter, 22, in the face and throttled her before throwing her body out of his car in 1974, the Old Bailey heard.

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