A 70-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years for murdering a retired postmistress in Cambridgeshire in 2013. 86-year-old Una Crown was found dead at her home with cuts to her throat, stab wounds to the chest and her clothing burnt in her bungalow. Speaking outside Cambridge Crown Court Detective Seargeant Simon Oldfield has hailed new DNA testing techniques as giving police the "vital breakthrough" needed to charge Newton with her murder, after his DNA was found on the victim's nail clippings. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00DNA found on Una Crown's fingernails was crucial in this case and new testing
00:05techniques gave the vital breakthrough we needed to charge Newton with her
00:09murder. For more than a decade David Newton thought he'd gotten away with the
00:14most horrendous crime but jurors saw through his lies and this verdict shows
00:19you cannot hide forever. I'd like to commend the 2013 team and the
00:25current investigation team for their painstaking work. We've been supported by
00:29incredible experts, witnesses and specialists who've helped us discover
00:33who was responsible. Newton will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars
00:39and our thoughts are with Una's family at this time who after more than a decade
00:45got the closure they deserve and the answers they have longed for. Finally this case
00:51demonstrates a police commitment to continually reviewing unsolved cases and
00:55seeking new lines of inquiry. No unsolved murder case is ever closed.