A 70-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years for the 2013 murder of retired postmistress Una Crown after DNA which matched his profile was found on her nail clippings.

Calvin Parris, 35, from Cardiff, was sentenced to 12 years in jail at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Friday after evading justice for four years.

Alice Morrison, 61, averaged 23km per day for seven weeks as she travelled from the Jordanian border to the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah.