A teenager charged with murdering a 69-year-old woman found stabbed to death at a Plymouth bus station is due to make his first Crown Court appearance.
Ian Hartshorn, 18, appeared at Plymouth Magistrates Court last week charged with murdering Florence Seccombe, also known as Florence Wherly, on October 18, 2003.
The teenager, of no fixed abode, faces a second charge of breaking into the Yarmouth Stores, Southside Street, Plymouth on he same date and stealing three knives and a wallet worth £28.38.
Hartshorn was remanded in custody pending the preliminary hearing at Plymouth Crown Court.
Florence Seccombe was found dead at Plymouth's Bretonside Bus Station just before 6am on October 18, 2003. She died from a stab wound to the neck.
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