Will The 1984 Unsolved Murder of Janice Weston Ever be Resolved? By Giovanni Di Stefano and Caroline Bayford
On the 9 May 2016, 64-year-old, Christopher Hampton pleaded guilty to the 1984 murder of 17-year-old Melanie Road and sentenced to life with a minimum term of 22-years. DCI Julie Mackay and her team at Avon and Somerset Police were able to charge Hampton with murder when his daughter, in 2015, was arrested and provided a routine DNA sample to police. After checking her DNA sample with the national database, a familiar match was made to a sample stored…