Timeline Molseed case - Manchester Evening News

October 5, 1975: Lesley Molseed, 11, disappears while running an errand for her
13 November 2007
Manchester Evening News

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Continue Reading... Labels: Campbell Malone, Crown Prosecution Service, Dick Holland, DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Ronald Outteridge, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

Justice...32 years late

13 November 2007
Mirror
Paul Byrne and Patrick Mulchrone
Child sex fiend who murdered Lesley gets life in jail

Child sex killer Ron Castree who let an innocent man serve 16 years for his crime was told yesterday he would probably die in jail. The kinky comic book dealer was finally convicted of stabbing to death Lesley Molseed, 11, 32 years after he dumped her body on moorland. Lesley's family was jubilant. Mum April Garrett said: "Our long quest for justice for her is now over." Castree also abducted a girl of nine and assaulted a boy of seven. Yesterday as the pervert began a minimum 30-year sentence his male victim, now a married dad of two, told for the first time of his harrowing ordeal. He said: "For 30 years I thought I'd been grabbed by a paedophile. Now it turns out he was a killer."

Continue Reading... Labels: Campbell Malone, Dick Holland, DNA, FSS, Lancashire Police, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Ronald Outteridge, Stefan Kiszko

The conviction of Ronald Castree marks the final chapter

13 November 2007
Manchester Evening News
Nicola Dowling

THE conviction of Ronald Castree marks the final chapter in one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British criminal history. A series of blunders by detectives investigating the murder of Lesley Molseed resulted in an innocent man - Stefan Kiszko - spending 16 years in prison for the crime while the real killer remained free. Last night, West Yorkshire Police made a public apology for their handling of the case. Det Chief Supt Max McLean said: "We are very, very sorry for what happened. It was a dreadful miscarriage of justice.  "I am so pleased today we have put things right. We have got the real killer." 

Continue Reading... Labels: Campbell Malone, Dick Holland, DNA, FSS, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Max McLean, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Ronald Castree, Ronald Outteridge, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

Molseed: The man wrongly jailed

November 12, 2007
Manchester Evening News

STEFAN Kiszko spent 16 years in jail for a crime he could not have committed. When he was finally freed in 1992, aged 41, he was a broken man and died two days before Christmas the following year.

Continue Reading... Labels: Campbell Malone, Dick Holland, FSS, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Ronald Outteridge, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

Molseed: Timeline and gallery

12 November 2007
Molseed: Timeline and gallery

Continue Reading... Labels: Campbell Malone, Crown Prosecution Service, Dick Holland, DNA, FSS, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Ronald Outteridge, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

Arrest in 30-year-old murde

5 November 2006
Press Association
Paul Watson

A 53-year-old man has today been arrested on suspicion of the brutal murder of a schoolgirl who disappeared while running an errand for her mother more than 30 years ago.

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

Stefan's aunt hails new move to bring suspect to justice

22 March 1999
Manchester Evening News
Neal Snowdon

The aunt of Stefan Kiszko - jailed for a child-killing he did not commit - has welcomed fresh attempts to bring the chief suspect to justice. The M.E.N. exclusively reported on Friday how relatives of 11-year-old victim Lesley Molseed have asked Manchester lawyers to bring a private prosecution against convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett over the 1975 murder.

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

Innocent victims of a horrible crime

20 March 1999
Yorkshire Post

The murder of Lesley Molseed and the jailing of Stefan Kiszko for a crime he did not commit piled tragedy upon tragedy, while a convicted paedophile suspected of being the real killer went free. Chief Reporter Andrew Vine looks back at a notorious miscarriage of justice.

Continue Reading... Labels: Campbell Malone, Crown Prosecution Service, DNA, FSS, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

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

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

Detective's death halts Kiszko case prosecutions

17 June 1995
The Independent
Heather Mills

No one will face charges over the wrongful conviction of Stefan Kiszko, who served 16 years for a child murder he did not commit, because of the death of the detective who headed the inquiry. A magistrate has thrown out charges of perverting the course of justice against another officer and a forensic scientist after deciding that they could not get a fair trial without the evidence of Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Dibb.

Continue Reading... Labels: Campbell Malone, Crown Prosecution Service, Dick Holland, DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, Rochdale, Ronald Outteridge, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police