Cold case detectives want to talk to the mystery couple and hope a distinctive shoe mark left at the scene revealing the branding 'Banana' could help to solve the case

Detectives have released e-fits of a couple they want to question over the brutal unsolved murder of an elderly woman more than 40 years ago.

Esme Hoad, 85, was beaten around the head with a blunt instrument and stabbed in the chest in her own home . The attack happened while Esme was living alone at her house in Havelock Road, Tonbridge, Kent.

Police hope a distinctive shoe mark left at the scene revealing the branding "Banana" could help to solve the case . Esme's body was found by officers on December 8 1982 after neighbours reported she had not been seen for days. Cold case detectives investigating the unsolved

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