POLICE were questioning a man today on suspicion of murdering a elderly peace campaigner almost 20 years ago.
West Mercia Constabulary said a man arrested yesterday was being held at an unnamed police station in connection with the murder of Hilda Murrell in Shropshire in 1984.
The partly-clothed body of the spinster was found that March in a wood six miles from her home in Shrewsbury. She had been stabbed and left to die from hypothermia.
The circumstances surrounding Miss Murrell's death had led to speculation that she may have been killed by the security services.
Her house had been broken into and it was suggested an intruder or intruders may have been looking for classified information which her nephew, a naval intelligence officer during the Falklands War, might have left there.
Miss Murrell was the aunt of Commander Robert Green, who passed the order for the sinking of the Belgrano in May 1982, and there were claims she might have hidden documents about the Belgrano for him.
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