Prosecutors said ‘new compelling DNA evidence’ clearly linked Donald Robertson to the murder as well as to the rape of a 16-year-old years earlier.
Robertson, 66, did not attend his trial and the dock at Reading Crown Court was empty on Tuesday as a jury found him guilty of both crimes.
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