Murder trial collapses after pensioner falls ill

The jury trying a pensioner accused of raping and murdering a schoolgirl 47 years ago was discharged after he was taken ill. Dennis McGrory, now 74, allegedly stabbed and strangled Jacqueline Montgomery, 15, in a rage because she was the niece of his cheating partner. The teenager’s body was found by at her Islington home by her father on 2 June 1975. She had been stabbed repeatedly and strangled with the iron flex. Jurors heard McGrory escaped justice for almost…