‘Double killer claimed DNA was a police plant’

A World War Two veteran pleaded: ‘Help me’ after he was fatally injured by a double killer who ransacked his flat, the Old Bailey heard. Michael Weir, 52, battered 79-year-old Leonard Harris to death and left his wife Gertrude covered in blood and curled in a ball inside her bedroom on 28 January 1998, prosecutors claim. Mr Harris was discovered by estate agent Jeremy Clapich on the landing outside his second storey apartment with his upper lip hanging off and…