DETECTIVES have established a DNA link between two murder victims, 32 years after their deaths.

Officers are now reinvestigating the 1975 murders of Playboy Bunny Girl Eve Stratford in Leyton and Lynne Weedon in Hounslow after determining that the same DNA was found on both victims.

No-one has ever been charged with either murder.

Eve Stratford, 22, died of neck injuries March 18, 1975.

She was last seen walking near her home in Lyndhurst Drive at about 4pm.

It was a snowy day and she appeared to be alone.

At 4.30pm, an occupant in another flat at the converted house heard the voices of a man and a woman. The conversation did not sound in any manner heated.

A short while later, the witness heard a loud thud noise coming from Eve's first-floor flat. Her body was discovered by her boyfriend at 5.25pm in the bedroom.

There was no sign of forced entry to the flat and no weapon was ever recovered.

A recent forensic examination of clothing recovered from the body provided a DNA profile.

On September 3 the same year, shortly after 11pm, 16-year-old schoolgirl Lynne Weedon was raped and murdered near her home in Hounslow.

In 2004 officers from the Met's Murder Review Group conducted a review of Lynne's case.

It was following this review that further scientific work was undertaken and a DNA profile discovered. Checks then found a match to Eve's murder.

Anyone with information is asked to call the incident room on 0207 3217228 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.