Wharf man guilty of pensioner murder

A FORMER care worker has been found guilty of the murder of an 83-year-old woman 14 years ago.

An Old Bailey jury unanimously declared unemployed Edward Ross, who turned 40 today, as the man who savagely beat pensioner Helen Mercer in her own bedroom in Leyton back in 1994. He was arrested last year after a "cold case" investigation linked his palm-print to bloody marks left over her bed.

Judge Gerald Gordon is scheduled to sentence Ross this afternoon. For more information on the two-week case, see here and here.