Mark Weston: new study found the stains of blood found on his boots. The double jeopardy law changed Pennsylvania 2005 for serious crimes in the light of new evidence to enable. Photo: Thames Valley Police-PAThe first person, a second face murder trial that the Elimination of the double criminality rule today convicted, battering a woman to death in 1995.
Mark Weston, 35, village of Ascott under Wychwood, was acquitted of the murder of 30-year-old Vikki Thompson, a married mother of two, 1996, of the Oxfordshire, but a new study found specks of dust rather than after forensic scientists discovered their blood on Weston's boots if the case was reopened.
Vikki Thompson was attacked while walking the dog of the families, Daisy. Photo: Thames Valley Police-PAThe law was in 2005 to Pennsylvania for serious crimes in the light of new knowledge allow modified.
Conviction Weston on a minimum of 13 years after the process of reading Crown Court, Mr Justice David bean told him: "it has 15 years for Justice taken to catch up with you, but it did finally today." Thompson close to a railway line with head injuries dealt by heavy objects and died six days later found. Had the family dog Daisy was walking near the village and the alert is triggered when the dog returned home alone.
Weston, described as an odd-job man around the village and a loner, was arrested soon after the murder and acquitted tried but the following year after the jury for 50 minutes. Later wrote the jury foreman to him urging him to sue the police for wrongful arrest. The master told him: "I hope they are all always on now and hope you go ahead and get great compensation by the police because she had no evidence of any kind whatsoever."
The judge in the process against the original allowed contains the jury two bras on a plastic bag, to know the railway embankment where Thompson's body was discovered stained with Weston's sperm found nearby. Police believe they randomly masturbate on Weston and he attacked her, before drag your body towards the dam in the hope that it would be thought with a train had taken.
Keep after the reopening of the case and re-examination Weston's boots, who had been following, that the original trial, forensic scientists discovered two specks of dust Thompson's blood on the shoes, when wet but had been deposited had been previously overlooked.
Peter Beirne, a former detective in brought to crime to investigate, said: "this is the first time with double jeopardy legislation, the new forensic evidence, a belief were used to secure so that it is very important."
After the initial trial Weston, lived with his parents in the village, was twice by harassing other women including the daughter of a police officer sentenced.
Judge bean told him: "it seems that the reason why you attacked you you you masturbate, observed." "It attacked in the track, pulled her over a field and her from a railway embankment finished."
Jonathan Thompson, husband of the victim, said after the hearing: "Vikki's family was by agony and have been exceptionally patiently waiting for this happen, to life, with the fact the who this Vikki was did not in jail."
"During this time mark Weston has been free, his life to life." There is no justice in this. He deserves to be punished, for what he did, and now will be. Vikki was the perfect wife and mother and should be able to see, Matthew and Jenny into fine young adults today you have been. "At least now you know that truth and Justice finally been seen."
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