Did he die or move abroad?
THE murder four years after that of Eve Stratford, of pregnant mother-of-two Lynda Farrow, had such strong similarities that some detectives are convinced to this day they must be connected.
The 29-year-old croupier had recently left her husband and taken her children to live with a boyfriend when an intruder broke in and stabbed her repeatedly.
The horrific scene was discovered by her daughters, 11 and eight, when they came home from school and, unable to get in, peered through the letterbox.
Police were convinced Lynda knew her killer, as there was no sign of forced entry at the house in Woodford Green, East London. Both her husband and her boyfriend were quickly eliminated from enquiries, and the hunt centred on witness descriptions of a well-built man in his 30s with an Afro hairstyle, wearing a donkey jacket, who was seen running from the scene.
DCI Colin Sutton, the detective who led the investigation that sent serial killer Levi Bellfield to prison, led a review of the evidence in 2002.
‘It has tantalised and burned in me ever since,’ he said in 2015. ‘With Eve Stratford all the evidence was available, which enabled us to send items away for modern scientific analysis. In Lynda’s case it was the reverse. This was particularly disappointing, as the physical evidence in Lynda’s murder has never been checked for DNA, cutting off an important detection route.
‘The fact that the Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon DNA profile remains unmatched tells us their killer has not been arrested in the past 20 years. I have no doubt the same man committed all three murders. Did he die, or move abroad? My gut feeling tells me he is still out there somewhere and still nervous about a knock on his door.’