A widow was found murdered in her bungalow 12 years ago with her throat cut, a stab wound to her chest that passed through both her lungs and her heart and her clothing set on fire, a court heard.
But there was a two-day delay in preserving the scene at the house due to a “grave error of judgment by police officers who went to the house” and did not deem it suspicious, prosecutor John Price told jurors.
