On trial for murdering this woman nearly half a century ago

A pensioner accused of beating and strangling a sex worker to death in his car nearly 50 years ago was linked to her murder after a DNA breakthrough, a court heard. The body of sex worker 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 31 at the time, denies murdering Ms Cotter and indecently assaulting a guest at his…