Convicted of killing this woman in 1974

A pensioner who sexually assaulted a teenager at his own wedding is set to die in jail after DNA tests linked him to a killing almost half a century ago. The body of Eileen Cotter, 22, was found in front of a block of garages behind Hamilton Park, Highbury, north London, on 1 June 1974. John Apelgren, who is now 80, but then 31, had sex with her in his car, strangled her and then pushed her out into the…