Murder crusade takes to streets

13 November 1997
Yorkshire Post
Joanne Ginley

The family of murdered schoolgirl Lesley Molseed took their crusade to find the man they have named their prime suspect onto the streets of Todmorden yesterday. They handed out leaflets bearing the name of the man they claim killed the 11-year-old girl they refer to as "Our Lel" 22 years ago. 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, Rochdale, Stefan Kiszko, Steve Panter, Trevor Wilkinson, West Yorkshire Police

Mother 'knows identity of daughter's murderer'

12 November 1997
Yorkshire Post
Joanne Ginley

April Garrett, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Lesley Molseed, is certain that someone somewhere holds vital clues that can put her daughter's killer behind bars. But for Mrs Garrett this is no ordinary search for information about a faceless murderer. Twenty-two years after 11-year-old Lesley was slain on moorland above Rochdale, she is now certain she knows who took her child's life. So sure is Mrs Garrett that she and other members of her family are to start an inquiry of their own.

Continue Reading... Labels: Lesley Molseed, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Stefan Kiszko

An American nightmare in Yorkshire

3 November 1997
The Guardian

"It couldn't happen here," was the unanimous reaction of the British legal establishment to the Louise Woodward affair. Everyone seems to agree that the young woman's wrongful conviction was the fault of an alien system which exposes itself to the media and relies far too heavily on the judgment of irrational, vulgar juries, uncontrolled by rational well-bred judges.

While this view was being ceaselessly proclaimed, hardly anyone noticed the publication of another book on another monstrous injustice perpetrated by good old British bobbies, by good old British scientists and good old British courts, where juries are firmly directed by good old British judges and where the media and the public are kept in good old British ignorance of the important facts.

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