The case is notable for the 21 year delay in justice before former soldier Tony Jasinskyj was found guilty as a result of advances in DNA testing and sentenced to life in prison.

On Saturday 6 June 1981 she was cycling the four miles from her home at Basingbourne Close in Fleet, Hampshire[3] to attend a clarinet lesson at The Wavell School in Farnborough.

The murder remained a cold case until in 1999 a DNA profile was obtained from the withheld material using the new Low copy number (LCN) testing technique.

[2] At his trial at Winchester Crown Court experts pointed out that DNA material from Crofts was present in the sample taken from her body and the clothing she had been wearing.

[7] In sentencing him Judge Michael Brodrick told Jasinskyj that he had committed a "cruel and callous murder" and had given Croft's family 21 years of suffering as they thought of "the final, dreadful, brutal moments of her life".

[2][8] In 2014 Jasinskyj appealed his life sentence, arguing before Lady Justice Macur QC, Lord Justice Phillips and Judge Neil Ford QC at the Court of Appeal in London that the DNA evidence produced at his 2002 trial was 'flawed' as it contained material from the victim suggesting that the murderer had a chromosome disorder - meaning he had been wrongfully convicted.