A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of an 86-year-old retired postmistress, who was found dead in her bungalow 11 years ago.
Una Crown was found in a pool of blood and with her clothing burnt in her hallway in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
Her death in 2013 was initially treated as an accident when she was found by emergency workers on 13 January, after family and neighbours became concerned for her welfare.
A murder investigation was launched four days later.
Cambridgeshire Police said a 69-year-old man from Wisbech had been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Ms Crown.
The force said the suspect, who was arrested on Monday morning, remains in custody at Thorpe Wood Police Station in Peterborough.
A retired surgeon says she was harassed in “almost half the jobs” she worked as a junior trainee.
Dr Liz O’Riordan spoke out as a new survey found almost a third of NHS female surgical staff have been sexually assaulted in the last five years.
Among the UK’s surgical workforce, 63% of women and 23% of men have experienced being sexually harassed by colleagues, the study found.
Assaults ranged from genitals or breasts being touched to rape.
Dr O’Riordan, a retired onco-plastic breast surgeon, said she was shocked “it’s still happening today”, after experiencing repeated harassment during her training.
“When I was operating, one of my consultants asked across the table ‘Who was I sleeping with?’ Because I ‘look like I could go a round or two’,” she told Sky News.
“At the time when I was training, it was common – surgery was and still is a male-dominated environment. And when you’re in the operating theatre, you are very vulnerable.
“You are wearing thin scrubs, stood shoulder to knee with the men you’re working with for many hours at a time.
“And it’s very easy for lewd comments or wandering hands to enter your field.”
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Dr O’Riordan said many surgeons feared being labelled “difficult” if they raised a complaint and worried that the men would refuse to train them.
“I think it’s a small number of repeat offenders, but because women make up such a small amount of the workforce, then they are likely to work with these men,” Dr O’Riordan said.
Image: Liz as a trainee surgeon
Surgeons ‘slow’ to speak out
Tim Mitchell, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, told Sky News he regretted instances where he had not been quick to speak out.
“I still am working as a surgeon and I have been aware of circumstances. I have called people out on occasions, been aggressive in the past.
“I may have not been quick enough to do that.
“It’s quite difficult to do in the heat of the moment, but we need to encourage people to call out such behaviour so that we can around cases.”
A retired police officer who was having an inappropriate relationship with a vulnerable woman carried out breathalyser tests on himself to meet internal targets, a disciplinary hearing has heard.
The panel found in favour of gross misconduct allegations against former PC Julian John and concluded that he would have been dismissed from South Wales Police had he not already retired.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigated an inappropriate relationship the former constable formed with a vulnerable woman.
Their investigation began after the IOPC received a referral from South Wales Police relating to an allegation of an inappropriate relationship formed during the course of his duties as an officer.
Flirtatious text messages were found on John’s work mobile sent by him to the woman.
These messages were sent over a nine-month period and evidence suggested that he had stayed overnight at her property on at least one occasion.
The hearing was told that in mid-December 2019 John carried out two negative breathalyser tests on himself – which measures how much alcohol is in the air you breathe out – before he falsely recorded them as tests carried out on the public.
He said in an interview that he wanted to see if a mince pie he had eaten would impact his blood alcohol level, which the panel found to be “wholly implausible”.
They say it is more likely to have been a conscious attempt to inflate breathalyser figures during an anti-drink and drugs driving campaign over the Christmas period.
The IOPC’s investigation came to an end in January 2021 and found the officer had a case to answer for gross misconduct.
He retired from the force in March this year.
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Following the hearing held on 28 March, which was overseen by an independent legally qualified chair, John has been added to the police-barred list.
