Man charged with 1988 murder of Belfast woman
A 43-year-old man was last night charged with the murder of a pensioner in the North nearly 20 years ago.
Sixty-six-year-old Lily Smith was strangled to death in her home on the outskirts of Belfast in October of 1988.
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