A man has been sentenced for murdering a young woman 30 years after being acquitted of the same offence.
A cold case review by the Metropolitan Police Service and the Crown Prosecution Service Appeals and Review Unit led to the case being referred back to the Court of Appeal with an application that Smith’s acquittal be quashed, after new significant and compelling evidence came to light.
David Alexander Frank Smith, 67 of Middlesex was sentenced to a minimum term of 27 years today (26 May 2023) of the murder of Sarah Crump in Southall in 1991.