A British court on Tuesday gave a life sentence to a 92-year-old man for a crime committed in 1967, in one of the country’s oldest cold cases. A jury had found the man, Ryland Headley, guilty on Monday of the murder and rape of a 75-year-old British woman, nearly six decades after a neighbor found her body in her home outside Bristol, England, according to Avon and Somerset Police. The judge, Derek Sweeting, said during the sentencing that Mr. Headley had shown a “complete disregard for human life and dignity,” according to a statement from the police after the sentencing hearing on Tuesday. He said that Mr. Headley “met her screams and struggles with force sufficient to kill.”Mr. Headley’s sentence includes a minimum of 20 years in prison before consideration for parole. Given his age, Judge Sweeting told him, “you will never be released, you will die in prison.”
