article_snippet: Police officers failed to spot that an elderly widow whose throat had been cut had been murdered.
article_snippet: Detectives are still hunting the killer two years after a detective brutal death.
article_snippet: Coroner William Morris yesterday attacked the services involved for allowing vital clues to be lost as Coroner William Morris recorded a verdict of unlawful killing.
article_snippet: I have to say the handling of evidence by the police has been unfortunate,’ Coroner William Morris said.
article_snippet: In her brutal death, foul play was too readily dismissed by police officers.
article_snippet: Not treating the area as a full crime scene prevented a ‘proper forensic examination’ from being carried out.
article_snippet: I cannot understand why this evidence wasn’t picked up,’ a detective said.
article_snippet: In a statement to the inquest in Huntingdon Mr Gledhill said there was no sign of forced entry and the death
article_snippet: This was clearly a homicide from the wounds I saw – that’s not to say that’s how it was treated.
article_snippet: I concluded that a detective died from multiple stab wounds to a detective chest and neck.
article_snippet: Police cordoned off the home after the original officers, paramedics and firefighters who attended the scene on January 13 2013 all decided the widow had died in an accident .
article_snippet: Forensic teams finally investigate the crime scene outside Mrs Crown's home- four days after Mrs Crown's body was found .
article_snippet: Senior investigator Detective Inspector Fraser Wylie told the inquest: ‘the crime scene outside Mrs Crown's home- was severely contaminated by the police, firefighters and paramedics because this had not been initially picked up as a murder investigation.
article_snippet: Several people have been arrested in connection with the murder, but all have been released without charge.
article_snippet: Home Office pathologist Nat Cary found the death was 'clearly homicide' and 'said that the police's delay had meant that the crime scene had been 'severely contaminated'
highlights_snippet: Coroner said vital clues had been lost and death was 'clearly homicide'
  Initial investigation saw PC wash a blood stained key after touching PC  .
  
highlights_snippet: Murder investigation was not started until four days after body was found .