Jury out in the murder trial of a West Berkshire au pair

After five weeks of listening to evidence at Reading Crown Court the twelve jurors are now considering whether 64-year-old David Burgess, formerly of Stoneyfield, Beenham, murdered 17-year-old Yolande Waddington, who was found dead in a ditch in Clay Lane, Beenham, on October 30, 1966.
She had been stripped naked, stabbed and strangled.
During the trial jurors were told how nine months after Miss Waddington (pictured) was killed Mr Burgess was convicted of murdering nine-year-old girls Jeanette Wigmore and Jacqueline Williams, whose bodies were found in a disused gravel pit in Beenham on April 17, 1967.
Joel Bennathan QC, defending, said corrupt police officers framed Burgess for the 1967 murders, and argued his client was in bed when Miss Waddington was killed. Instead, Mr Bennathan claimed Miss Waddington’s employer, Peter Jagger, who owned Oakwood Farm in Clay Lane, Beenham, at the time, killed his nanny.
Conversely, the prosecution told the jury that the chances of blood detected on a polythene sack found at the murder scene not being that of Burgess was smaller than one in a billion.
Prosecutor John Price QC also told the court how Burgess confessed to murdering Miss Waddington to prison officers at Durham Prison in 1968 and 1969. Prison officers claim Burgess (pictured bottom right) told them he killed Miss Waddington after a sexual encounter in a barn went wrong, but when the defendant was questioned by police last year he said he made the stories up.
Before retiring to consider its verdict, The Honourable Mr Justice Andrew Nicol told the jury: “Your test is not to make a relative judgement between different suspects. You need to decide whether the evidence put before you makes you sure that David Burgess was her killer.”
The jury retired on Monday morning.