The Daily Telegraph - 06.08.2019

The Daily Telegraph Tuesday 6 August 2019 *** 9

Widow, 89, found

battered to death

after suspected

burglary at home

By Victoria Ward

POLICE last night arrested a 22-year-
old man on suspicion of murdering a
widow who was killed in a suspected
burglary at her home.
The body of Dorothy Woolmer, 89,
was found in her bed in Tottenham,
north London by a neighbour who had
gone to check on her around 10.45am
on Sunday.
The Metropolitan Police said the
pensioner, a keen gardener who had
lived at the terraced house with her
husband for around 70 years, had
“clearly been assaulted”.
They said they had not ruled out
burglary as a motive. The suspect was
last night taken into custody at a north
London police station.
Neighbours said there had been a se-
ries of break-ins in the area, one as re-
cently as two weeks ago. One said he
believed the suspects were targeting
elderly people who lived on their own.
Riot police armed with tasers,
shields and a battering ram raided a
property around the corner yesterday
afternoon. Two women and two young
girls were seen being brought out of
the property before it was searched.
Scotland Yard declined to comment
on the raid for “operational reasons”.
Mrs Woolmer is the 88th, and oldest,
murder victim in London this year. Her
immediate family last night appealed
for privacy at what they described as a
“very distressing time”. Neighbours

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Police: children

born of rape

are not victims

By Gabriella Swerling

SociAL AFFAirS editor

CHILDREN born of rape do not count

as victims, police have said, after a

woman sought to prosecute her birth

father after he allegedly raped her

mother.

The woman, who wants her father

brought to justice in a victimless pros-

ecution using her DNA as evidence,

discovered the alleged rape in her

adoption records.

She has alleged that her mother was

under the age of consent when a family

friend raped her in the Seventies.

The daughter said her birth is proof

of a child rape and wants a DNA test

carried out to use as evidence. She now

sees herself as “a walking crime scene”.

However, police have said “the law

does not recognise her as a victim in

these circumstances”.

Appearing on the BBC’s Victoria Der-

byshire programme, the woman, who

cannot be identified for legal reasons,

said: “The records said she’d gone to ba-

bysit at his house and he raped her. It

says seven [times] that it was rape.”

The woman said: “I’m a walking

crime scene. Because of that crime, I

am alive. My whole life’s been dictated

by it – but no one will see me as a vic-

tim. I am living, breathing proof of a

child rapist and nobody is interested.”

She said she had confronted her fa-

ther about the allegation, which he nei-

ther confirmed nor denied.

Chief Supt Pete Henrick, of West

Midlands Police, said the force did not

underestimate the impact “no doubt

suffered” by the complainant.

He added that it had not received a

rape claim in the Seventies and the al-

leged victim had not wished to co-op-

erate when she was approached by her

daughter in 2014.

The Ministry of Justice has been

contacted for a comment.

Stalker on day release yards from woman’s home

By Daily Telegraph Reporter

A CONVICTED stalker is being de-

tained at a mental hospital in his vic-

tim’s neighbourhood and allowed out

on day releases in what charities call a

“farcical” situation.

Nikita-Jane Rogers, 25, of Leigh,

Greater Manchester, was terrorised by

her neighbour Christian Jones for

three months before he was arrested in

May, Wigan magistrates’ court heard.

Jones, 29, told his victim he would

stab her, rape her and threatened to

feed her three-year-old daughter to

sharks when she rejected his advances,

the court was told.

He pleaded guilty to harassment be-

fore magistrates on July 29 and was

given a suspended prison sentence. But

he was allowed to remain just 500 yards

from Ms Rogers’ home, at Atherleigh

Park Hospital, where he was sectioned

at an earlier hearing.

Jones was allowed out for up to three

hours a day. Ms Rogers said she was

frightened to leave home all the time

Jones remained on her “doorstep”. She

said: “I thought I’d be safe after he was

finally convicted – but he’s in a mental

hospital literally across the road.”

Anti-stalking charities criticised the

decision. “This is farcical,” said Jan

Berry, of Protection Against Stalking.

“This appears to make a mockery of

the promise to put victims at the centre

of the criminal justice system.”

The Department for Health declined

to comment.

Missing student murdered by church member

By Gabriella Swerling

A MIDWIFERY student was murdered
by a “cruel and cowardly” married
member of her orthodox church, a
court has ruled.
Joy Morgan, 20, has not been seen
since leaving the Israel United in Christ
Church in Ilford, east London, on Box-
ing Day.
Shohfah-El Israel, 40, of Crickle-
wood, north London, was sentenced
yesterday to life imprisonment with a

minimum term of 17 years for her mur-

der. The student’s body has never been

recovered.

Israel gave no reaction as he was con-

victed at Reading Crown Court.

Judge Michael Soole told him: “Only

you know the circumstances of your

terrible deed and why you did it,” and

accused him of a “cruel and cowardly

silence” about Ms Morgan’s final resting

place.

Israel lied to the police when he was

arrested, saying he had dropped Ms

Morgan off at her student accommoda-

tion in Hatfield on Dec 26.

However, he later admitted he had

spent two nights alone with her in his

Cricklewood flat, which was in defiance

of strict church rules. A signal from Ms

Morgan’s phone, which has never been

found, was detected in Israel’s car in the

Stevenage area on Dec 28.

The jury was not told about flirta-

tious exchanges Israel allegedly had

with other women before and after the

student went missing.

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years ago. John Cerisier, 72, described

them as a “very devoted couple”. He

added: “It was his mother’s and father’s

place and they took it over.

“Their wedding was in the late For-

ties, I think she was about 19. For her

wedding trip, he took her in a balloon

over London.

“I last saw Dot clipping the hedge of

a man who lives four doors up, so she

was a very fit old lady. She loved her

garden. They were a very devoted cou-

ple. They didn’t have any children, but

they were happy. It’s very sad to live to

such an age and end up like that.”

Another neighbour, Sayed Hussain,

40, said: “It’s terrible, it should never

Forensic officers

search the area

around the home of

Dorothy Woolmer,

left, in Tottenham,

north London,

where she was

found dead

said that the pensioner’s body had been

found on a makeshift bed downstairs

by a female friend who checked on her

regularly.

One said: “The door was left open, so

she walked in to find her still in bed.

She had been sleeping downstairs

because she couldn’t make it up them

anymore. She said it was truly horrible.

“We don’t know how long she had

been there for.”

Others described how Mrs Woolmer,

who was known as Dot, and her hus-

band, Ken, had moved into the two-

bedroom home in around 1948. Mr

Woolmer, a former marine, is thought

to have died from stomach cancer two

have happened. I haven’t got a single

word to explain my sorrow.”

John George, 91, a former RAF con-

script, said: “I couldn’t wish for a better

neighbour. She was a very pleasant

lady and Ken was a most helpful man.”

Mrs Woolmer’s property remained

cordoned off by police yesterday as fo-

rensic officers continued their search.

Det Chief Insp Garry Moncrieff said:

“The woman had clearly been as-

saulted and, as such, a murder investi-

gation has been launched.

“I want to hear from anyone who

saw anything suspicious the surround-

ing area on Saturday night or Sunday

morning.”

‘It’s terrible,

it should

never have

happened. I

haven’t got a

single word

to explain

my sorrow’

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