{"id":188437,"date":"2025-06-16T07:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/188437\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T07:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:42:14","slug":"man-92-set-for-trial-over-1967-bristol-rape-and-murder-police-release-new-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/188437\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 92, set for trial over 1967 Bristol rape and murder &#8211; police release new photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial is due to start this morning<\/p>\n<p>08:32, 16 Jun 2025Updated 08:34, 16 Jun 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_SWNS_1967_MURDER_002_029463.jpg\" alt=\"An old picture of a woman wearing a hat\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Louisa Dunne<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police have released new photos of a woman murdered in 1967 &#8211; as her alleged killer prepares to go on trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The trial of Ryland Headley, 92, who is accused of the rape and murder of Louisa Dunne, is due to start at Bristol Crown Court today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Ahead of the hearing, new images of Louisa, known as Louise, have been released.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_SWNS_LOUISA_DUNNE_004_076071.jpg\" alt=\"Louisa Dunne\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Louisa Dunne<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They show Louisa in Weymouth in 1927, with a cloche hat in the 1920s, in Clevedon in 1933, another in 1919 and further image of an unknown date.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_SWNS_1967_MURDER_001_029462.jpg\" alt=\"An old picture of Louisa Dunne\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Louisa Dunne<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">She was found dead in her home in Britannia Road, Easton, Bristol, by a neighbour on Wednesday 28 June, 1967.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The cause of her death was determined to be strangulation and asphyxiation. She had also been raped.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_SWNS_LOUISA_DUNNE_007_076074.jpg\" alt=\"An old picture of a woman wearing a hat\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Louisa Dunne<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Headley, a 92-year-old man from the Ipswich area of Suffolk was arrested by officers from Avon and Somerset Police on suspicion of murder and rape nearly 60 years after the discovery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_SWNS_LOUISA_DUNNE_003_076070.jpg\" alt=\"An old picture of a woman wearing a hat\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Louisa Dunne<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A jury is expected to be signed in on Monday ahead of a trial lasting three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trial is due to start this morning 08:32, 16 Jun 2025Updated 08:34, 16 Jun 2025 Louisa Dunne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,955,9999,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-188437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-clevedon","11":"tag-easton","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114691922053085382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}