Police have named Keith Dowbekin, who died in 2014, as the man responsible for killing 35-year-old Jennifer Kiely in Sussex in 2005, based on “overwhelming” DNA evidence gathered from members of his family tree.

Detectives involved in cracking the cold case also revealed that before the murder, he was arrested in connection with two separate rapes in Great Yarmouth in 2003 and 2004.

Dowbekin, who was also known as Keith Black and Keith Broadbent, was not charged with either offence and - due to the procedures in place at the time - his DNA was not gathered and added to the database, meaning it could not be used at the time to solve Ms Kiely's murder.

Norfolk police also took a DNA sample from Dowbekin in 2003, as he was a witness in an unrelated murder.

At the time, he was living with the suspect in a murder case.

But because he was not a suspect himself, again, his sample was not added to the database.

Ms Kiely's body was found in a seafront shelter in Eastbourne in the early hours of January 22, 2005, by members of the local fire brigade.

Ms Kiely's body was found in a seafront shelter in Sussex (Image: Sussex Police)

She had been stabbed multiple times, had an injury to the back of her head and her body had been set on fire.

The attack........

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