This is the Late
Hilda Lockert who was robbed as she returned to her flat at Langport House in Overton Road, SW9 on
30 April 2001.
Her cash (£15), bus pass and a shopping bag were taken ...
(Source: as stated in image)
... the attack left her with multiple injuries including an injury to her head and multiple bruises to both arms and a fractured knee and she was admitted to hospital where she had an operation. Unfortunately, she developed a blood clot and subsequently died in hospital
on her 86th birthday on 15 May 2001, after she went into cardiac arrest.
Medical reports concluded that there was a “clear medical and real causal relationship” between the fracture to
Ms Lockert's knee and her death, the cause of which was a pulmonary embolus - a blood clot that moved from her legs and cut off the blood supply to her lungs.
Following initial enquiries, local youth
Junior Young (then aged 18, and resident on Angell Town Estate) was arrested on 5 June 2001. He denied any involvement in the attack.
In 2015, a forensic scientist re-examined samples taken from the handles of
Ms Lockert's shopping bag, and using the extremely sensitive Low Copy Number DNA method he concluded the sample taken from the bag was
one billion times more likely to have come from the defendant, Hilda Lockert and another unrelated person, than from Hilda Lockert and two other unrelated people.
Earlier today,
Junior Young, now aged 39. was convicted of the manslaughter and robbery of
Ms Lockert after denying involvement and claiming that his DNA could have been transferred onto the shopping bag from the 'real' robber.
Hilda Lockert Walk in north Brixton has been named after the late
Ms Lockert in her memory.
(Source: Metropolitan Police)
Junior Young will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Monday 20 December 2021.