Man held for mother's murder in 1995

Detectives arrested a 34-year-old man yesterday over the murder of a woman killed while out walking her dog more than 14 years ago.

Vikki Thompson, a 30-year-old mother of two, was found with severe head injuries beside a railway line in Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, in August 1995.

She never regained consciousness and died six days later.

Thames Valley police said officers from its crime review team had arrested a 34-year-old man from the same village on suspicion of murder.

He is now being questioned a police station in Oxfordshire.

"Fourteen years ago Vikki was brutally attacked whilst out walking her dog along a country lane," her husband Jonathan and her mother Margaret Simpson said in a statement.

"Time has passed by now, but still we never forget the loss we suffered, when Vikki was taken away from us. Vikki herself deserves the justice that has not yet been found."