A 47-year-old man from Zaandam has been jailed for 20 years for killing a 19-year-old girl and dumping her body in a pond in 1992.

Judges in Alkmaar found Hüseyin A guilty of killing Milica van Doorn. He was identified following a mass dna test in the region last year.

A postmortem examination revealed Milica had been raped and stabbed to death and DNA samples indicated that the killer was almost certainly a man of Turkish origin.

Last year police asked 133 men from Zaandam’s Turkish community to volunteer their DNA for comparison, 126 of whom agreed. Several could not be traced and two refused.

Hüseyin A is one of the two men who refused to submit to the voluntary testing. He was identified because the tests showed he was related to one of the men who came forward.

This is the third high profile cold case to have produced a breakthrough following mass dna testing. In 2013, a Frisian farmer who admitted murdering a 16-year-old schoolgirl in 1999 was jailed for 18 years by a court in Leeuwarden.

And a mass dna test in Limburg has led to the arrest this year of a suspect in the hunt for the killer of 11-year-old Nicky Verstappen in 1998.