Mum’s relief as murderer named 30 years on

THE mother of a woman who was murdered 30 years ago spoke yesterday of her relief that her daughter’s real killer had now been named.

The body of David Lace, who took his own life, was exhumed last month from a cemetery in Portsmouth in connection with the murder of Teresa De Simone.

The murder investigation was re-opened when DNA evidence proved the man jailed for 27 years for the crime, Sean Hodgson, was innocent. DNA testing on Lace’s body was a billion-to-one complete match for samples found at the original crime scene, Hampshire police said.