Paedophile flees as town's parents learn of his past

29 October 1997
The Scotsman
John Ross and John Smith

A convicted paedophile was in at a secret location in Scotland last night, after fleeing from Forres in Moray after his past was made public. Parents were incensed yesterday to discover the 52-year-old, originally from the Blackpool area and said to be a danger to young girls, had been living in Forres for two weeks. The man, who was convicted of a series of offences against young girls, is also said to be a prime suspect in the unsolved murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed in Yorkshire in 1975. Neither police nor council officials were officially told of his presence in Forres, although Grampian Police became aware he was living locally through its own intelligence network.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Grampian Police, Ireland, Jonathan Rose, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Steve Panter, Trevor Wilkinson, West Yorkshire Police

Mother demands murder inquiry

18 October 1997
The Herald


Lesley Molseed

The mother of murdered schoolgirl Lesley Molseed yesterday called on Home Secretary Jack Straw to open a new inquiry into her daughter's death.  Ms April Garrett spoke out for the first time in 22 years following the publication of a book which names a 52-year-old convicted paedophile as the killer. (Blogger note: refers to Raymond Hewlett)

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Ireland, Jonathan Rose, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Stefan Kiszko, Steve Panter, Trevor Wilkinson, West Yorkshire Police

Mother of murdered girl believes daughter's killer is living in Cork

18 October 1997
Irish Times
Catherine Cleary

The mother of a schoolgirl murdered in Britain 22 years ago has said she believes her daughter's killer is living in Ireland. Lesley Molseed (11) was sexually assaulted and stabbed 12 times in October 1975. Her body was found in West Yorkshire three days after she went missing when she went to buy a loaf of bread.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Ireland, Jonathan Rose, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Stefan Kiszko, Steve Panter, Trevor Wilkinson, West Yorkshire Police

Plea over Lesley's murder

18 October 1997
Yorkshire Post
Nicola Megson
Schoolgirl's mother seeks inquiry after book 'names real killer' in false jailing case

The mother of murdered schoolgirl Lesley Molseed yesterday called on Home Secretary Jack Straw to open a new inquiry into her daughter's death. April Garrett spoke out for the first time in 22 years following the publication of a book which names a convicted paedophile aged 52 as the killer. (Blogger note: refers to Raymond Hewlett)  Eleven-year-old Lesley's body was found in a lay-by at Ripponden, near Halifax, in October 1975.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Ireland, Jonathan Rose, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Stefan Kiszko, Steve Panter, Trevor Wilkinson, West Yorkshire Police

Town not told of paedophile's stay

12 October 1997
The Sunday Times
By Jan Battles and Maeve Sheehan

A RURAL community in Co Kerry is outraged at the gardai's failure to warn them about a suspected child-killer and convicted paedophile who stayed in a local hostel.

Raymond Hewlett, 52, an Englishman suspected of murdering 12-year-old Lesley Molseed in Yorkshire 22 years ago, has been living in Ireland for several months.

The paedophile arrived at Dromtacker, a quiet suburb one mile from Tralee, 11 days ago. Hewlett and his 21-year-old German girlfriend, Marianne Schumucker, checked into the Little River hostel for two nights. But he fled the hostel last Saturday after learning that gardai had called to make inquires about him.

Hewlett, who has a string of convictions for assaults on young girls, was in close proximity to children during his stay in Dromtacker. The hostel is in a cluster of bungalows, many housing young families.

Local people said this weekend that the gardai should have warned them that a paedophile was staying in the area. One local woman said she and her neighbours were unaware that the "very chatty" man who had stayed in a tent in front of the local hostel was a convicted paedophile.

She said Hewlett was often seen chatting up 19 and 20-year-old girls, asking them about younger members of their family. "I think the gardai should have told us, so we could mind our children," said one woman.

Hewlett and his girlfriend arrived in Kerry from Donegal, where they had lived for several months. The couple left when they became aware that they were being monitored by detectives.

Local gardai notified their colleagues in Kerry in early October when they learned that the paedophile planned to move there.

Two detectives called to the Little River hostel last weekend to check on Hewlett. The paedophile and his girlfriend left suddenly last Saturday morning.

Gardai believe that Hewlett intended to stay in Dromtacker for some time. In his two days there, he had signed on at the local unemployment exchange.

Hewlett's record is outlined in a circular distributed to garda stations in the southwest. It warns that Hewlett is a danger to children and should be kept under observation.

In 1972 Hewlett lured his neighbour's 10-year-old daughter into his car, knocked her out with paint thinner and raped her. He later ordered another young girl to strip at gunpoint.

He was jailed for six years in 1988 for kidnapping at knifepoint a 14-year-old girl, whom he dumped in woodland 100 miles away after unsuccessfully trying to rape her.

A new book by Trevor Wilkinson, a retired British police chief, claims that Hewlett should have been brought to trial for the killing of Lesley Molseed in 1975. Molseed's mutilated body was found on the moors 10 miles from her home in Rochdale.

Stefan Kiszko was wrongly convicted and served 16 years for Molseed's murder. A subsequent investigation, which cleared Kiszko, pinpointed Hewlett as the child's killer.

Continue Reading... Labels: Donegal, Lesley Molseed, No. Ireland, Stefan Kiszko

Evening News names suspect in Lesley Molseed murder case

7 October 1997
Manchester Evening News

The Evening News today names Raymond Hewlett as prime suspect in the Lesley Molseed murder. He is a paedophile who slipped the dragnet through his lies and police blunders. Innocent Stefan Kiszko spent 16 years in jail after being wrongly convicted of Lesley's murder 22 years ago.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, Donegal, FSS, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

New evidence on child murder

6 October 1997
Yorkshire Post
Andrew Robinson
Police to examine claims made in book on killing of Lesley Molseed 22 years ago

Police are to examine new evidence relating to the unsolved murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed 22 years ago, for which an innocent man was jailed. A new book claims to name a prime suspect for the murder of the 11-year-old Rochdale girl, whose stabbed body was found on moorland above Ripponden, near Halifax, in October 1975.  (Blogger note: refers to Raymond Hewlett)

Continue Reading... Labels: Campbell Malone, Crown Prosecution Service, DNA, FSS, Ireland, Jonathan Rose, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Stefan Kiszko, Steve Panter, Trevor Wilkinson, West Yorkshire Police

LAIR OF A SEX FIEND

6 October 1997
Mirror

A sex fiend who is on the British government's paedophile register is hiding out in Co Donegal.

Raymond Hewlett is named in a new book by retired British police chief Trevor Wilkinson as the killer of a 12-year-old Lesley Molseed.

Her body was found battered and stabbed in Yorkshire 22 years ago.

Hewlett is now living in a cottage with a 21-year-old girl, claiming social security benefits and doing odd jobs.

Gardai in Donegal revealed they have been closely monitoring Hewlett's movements.

Continue Reading... Labels: Donegal, Lesley Molseed, No. Ireland, Raymond Hewlett

Girl's lies about her sex pervert boyfriend

4 October 1997
Manchester Evening News

A girl's lies about her sex pervert boyfriend contributed to a massive injustice which sent Stefan Kiszko to jail for a murder he did not commit. She has admitted that when she was 15 she gave a false alibi on the orders of her 30-year-old married lover who was suspected of the child murder.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Jonathan Rose, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Rosalee Dolan, Rosalie Dolan, Stefan Kiszko, Steve Panter, Trevor Wilkinson, West Yorkshire Police