DNA breakthrough sees robber convicted of killing pensioner in London in 2001

DNA breakthrough sees robber convicted of killing pensioner in London in 2001
Hilda Lockert on her 85th birthday (Family handout/Metropolitan Police/PA)

A mugger has been found guilty of killing an elderly woman 20 years ago after a DNA breakthrough in the case.

Junior Young was just 18 years old when he and an accomplice fatally attacked Hilda Lockert, 86, as she returned home in Brixton, south London, on April 30 2001.

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