ATS: Man put on trial for conspiracy theory murder case.

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A teenager from a children's home stabbed, kidnapped and sexually assaulted an elderly anti-nuclear campaigner and dumped her body in woodland where she died of hypothermia, a court heard yesterday.

The jurors at Stafford crown court were urged by the prosecution to "put to the back of your minds" conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Hilda Murrell. She died in March 1984 after disturbing 16-year-old burglar Andrew George at her detached home in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the court heard.

In June that year, the 78-year-old had been due to present a paper at the public inquiry into Sizewell B nuclear power station because she was concerned about the problem of nuclear waste, prosecutor Richard Latham, told the court.

He said books had been written about the murder, television programmes made and "endless newspaper articles written". He told the jurors: "You might have been aware of the conspiracy theories, but do not allow yourself to become contaminated by what we say is pure speculation - much of it ill-informed and some of it wholly speculative."

A semen-stained tissue, found in her back bedroom, and stains on her underslip matched a DNA profile provided by George. The prosecution say the chances of it matching another man taken randomly from the population were "one in 1bn".


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