"On the night of 3 September 1975, Lynne, a popular and clever girl, had been walking home after celebrating her O-level results with school friends at a nearby pub. The route to her house, on Lampton Avenue, included an alleyway that ran parallel to her school. It usually took her about a minute to pass through. But that night she didn't come out."
"Her case was re-opened in 2004 and there was something of a breakthrough in 2006, when DNA traces on Lynne's clothing linked her to another murder - that of Playboy bunny Eve Stratford in March 1975, six months before Lynne was killed. Derek Carruthers was a young PC on the murder squad at Leytonstone police station when he was the first officer on the scene of Ms Stratford's murder, describing it as "the most vicious type of injury I'd ever seen"."
Lynne Weedon, 16, was attacked on 3 September 1975 after walking home from a pub following O-level celebrations. She was found unconscious in the grounds of an electricity substation in Hounslow, having been struck over the head with a blunt instrument, raped, thrown over a fence and later died in hospital a week later. The route to her home included a short alleyway on Lampton Avenue where she disappeared. The case was reopened in 2004; DNA from Lynne's clothing linked her murder in 2006 to the March 1975 killing of Eve Stratford, suggesting a possible serial offender. Detective Derek Carruthers, first on the Stratford scene, urged DNA testing and has maintained interest.
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