Ex-boxer 'slit elderly widow's throat and stabbed her several times before setting her alight to destroy evidence' - but police initially dismissed matter as 'not suspicious'

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Ex-boxer 'slit elderly widow's throat and stabbed her several times before setting her alight to destroy evidence' - but police initially dismissed matter as 'not suspicious'

A former boxer slit an elderly widow’s throat and stabbed her several times before setting her alight to destroy evidence, a court heard today. David Newton, 70, is said to have left 86-year-old Una Crown sprawled face down in a pool of her own blood in the hallway of her modest bungalow. The grisly scene was discovered the following morning by her nephew, who had driven over to pick her up for their regular Sunday lunch together. A post-mortem …