POLICE will screen the DNA of almost 2,000 people in a bid to find the killer of a Hampshire grandmother, the Daily Echo can reveal.

Detectives will next week begin taking mouth swabs from dozens of men to compare against a DNA profile they believe belongs to the murderer of Georgina Edmonds.

The 77-year-old widow was tortured and bludgeoned to death in her cottage.

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