State police crime lab rape test swab reports found DNA that matches Stiff, evidence showed. A toxicology report also found Amitriptyline in the woman’s system, an odorless, soluble compound used as a prescription antidepressant.

Clegg said the earlier conviction was relevant “as it demonstrates a propensity to abduct young girls, administer the drug amitryptiline to them, murder them, and bury their bodies in rubbish sacks. There cannot be many people in this world who share those propensities”.