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27/02/2006
Police conduct DNA tests in search for model's killer
Police are conducting DNA tests in an attempt to find the killer of teenage model Sally Anne Bowman.
The eighteen-year-old model was stabbed to death close to her home in Croydon, south London last September. She was also sexually assaulted.
Around 4,000 letters have been sent to homes and businesses in the Croydon area, asking white or light-skinned men born between 1965 and 1985 to come forward for DNA testing.
Police stressed that the samples would not be used in investigations for other crimes and that the process was entirely voluntary. Detective Chief Inspector Stuart Cundy, who is leading the investigation, said that the tests were merely to enable police to eliminate men from the inquiry.
Miss Bowman's mother Linda and her two sisters have urged men in the area to come forward for the tests.
DCI Cundy said that police believed that Miss Bowman's attacker may have had links with the Croydon area and may live there, work nearby or have relatives living in the area.
(KMcA/GB)
The eighteen-year-old model was stabbed to death close to her home in Croydon, south London last September. She was also sexually assaulted.
Around 4,000 letters have been sent to homes and businesses in the Croydon area, asking white or light-skinned men born between 1965 and 1985 to come forward for DNA testing.
Police stressed that the samples would not be used in investigations for other crimes and that the process was entirely voluntary. Detective Chief Inspector Stuart Cundy, who is leading the investigation, said that the tests were merely to enable police to eliminate men from the inquiry.
Miss Bowman's mother Linda and her two sisters have urged men in the area to come forward for the tests.
DCI Cundy said that police believed that Miss Bowman's attacker may have had links with the Croydon area and may live there, work nearby or have relatives living in the area.
(KMcA/GB)
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