David Burgess due to be sentenced today

Sixty-four-year-old David Burgess, formerly of Stoneyfield, Beenham, was found guilty on Friday of murdering 17-year-old Yolande Waddington (pictured), who was found dead in a ditch in Clay Lane, Beenham, on October 30, 1966.
On the fifth day of deliberations on Friday, the 12-strong jury returned a guilty verdict of 11 to one.
Yolande who had only moved to Beenham from Newbury five days before her death, had been stripped naked, stabbed and strangled.
After the verdict was delivered on Friday, Giles Waddington, the brother of Yolande, read out a statement on behalf of the family.
He said: “We are grateful that justice has now been completed and Yolande’s murderer has been identified after more than 45 years.
“Yolande’s murder had a traumatic and irreversible effect on our family life and has cast a long shadow over nearly five decades.
“From the outset our trust of others was destroyed and as a consequence our family unit closed ranks; keeping the outside world at arm’s length.
“Our mother and father were deprived of experiencing the hopes and aspirations for their only daughter’s development. They have been robbed of their daughter’s life events such as her wedding and her children and the comfort she would have given them in their later years.
Mr Waddington thanked the Thames Valley Police major crime review team and the Crown Prosecution Service for their efforts, and his words were echoed by the family of Jeanette Wigmore.
A statement released by the Wigmore family, said: “We hope that they can find some peace in the knowledge that their daughter’s killer has been brought to justice after such a long time. Not knowing all of these years must have been terrible for them.”
Thames Valley Police principle investigator Pete Beine said modern-day technology and significant forensic evidence had linked Burgess to the murder, which led to his arrest in 2011.
He said: “David Burgess has never accepted his guilt despite confessing to the crime to prison officers on three separate occasions. He has never fully explained how or why he killed Yolande.
“I hope today’s conviction will bring some comfort to the Waddington family after all these years.
“The passage of time is no defence and review teams across the country are carrying out such work daily to ensure our communities are protected.”
Burgess had previously been 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.