Killer guilty of murder 30 years after he was cleared

Killer guilty of murder 30 years after he was cleared

Sarah Crump (Metropolitan Police/PA)

A killer who boasted he had “got away with it” after being cleared of murdering an escort 30 years ago has finally been found guilty of the crime.

Lorry driver David Smith, 67, went on to commit an almost identical murder of another sex worker, Amanda Walker, 21, in 1999 after he was acquitted of killing Sarah Crump, 33, in 1993.

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