Latest DNA evidence ‘may reveal’ Ward killer
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The mystery of Julie Ward's death has never been solved.
Scotland Yard detectives have flown back to the country with the latest DNA evidence that has been unearthed in connection to the murder of British tourist Julie Ward 23 years ago. They intend to help police with investigations.
Earlier in the year, police raided the home of a man believed to have been linked to Ms Ward at the time of her murder in 1988.
According to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, a number of items were taken from his garden which are now to be forensically analysed by the Scotland Yard detectives.
The report describes the find as “a potential breakthrough” although Scotland Yard has been reluctant to comment on its latest involvement saying its detectives are merely there to assist police investigating the case.
The Telegraph however, says that “it is hoped that items recently recovered from the garden of a key suspect will provide a DNA match to a profile of the killer that the police already have.”
Hopes of bringing her killers to justice have been raised by the fresh evidence believed to belong to one of the attackers and improved DNA profiling techniques that have identified human DNA from the scene.
Miss Ward, 28, from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was murdered while on a trip to the Masai Mara game reserve in 1988.
Initially it was believed she had been killed by wild animals but an inquest proved that she was murdered.
