Broadmoor killer 'linked to Rachel'

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Scotland Yard is expected to charge the 41-year-old man next week, the Sunday Times said.

The man is reportedly being held indefinitely at Broadmoor secure hospital in Berkshire, following his 1993 conviction.

Ex-model Ms Nickell, 23, was stabbed 49 times and sexually assaulted while walking on Wimbledon Common with her two-year-old son Alex on July 15, 1992.

The hunt for her killer was one of the largest seen in the UK, involving 32 arrests.

It emerged in June last year that detectives were questioning a man, believed to be an inmate at Broadmoor, over Miss Nickell's death, following a reinvestigation of the case.

A Scotland Yard spokesman would not comment on the latest report.

He said: "The investigation into the murder of Rachel Nickell continues."

Colin Stagg, from Roehampton, west London, was prosecuted for the murder, but cleared in 1994.

A judge threw the case out on the grounds that police had used a "honey trap" plot in a bid to encourage him to confess.