Molseed: Timeline and gallery

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Decades of botched investigations

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12 November 2007
Press Association
Amy Caulfield


Here is the timeline of events surrounding Lesley Molseed's murder since she went missing 32 years ago.
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Castree defence team claim former Todmorden man killed Lesley

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09 November 2007
Todmorden News


A former Todmorden man has been named as the probable killer of Lesley Molseed by the lawyer defending an Oldham man standing trial for the schoolgirl's murder. Ronald Castree's defence counsel Rodney Jameson QC told Bradford Crown Court that there was "an overwhelming possibility" that the man who sexually assaulted Lesley and stabbed her 12 times was convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett, who was living in Todmorden in the mid 1970s.
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You've got the wrong man again, says 'sex murder' defendant

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6 November 2007
The Daily Express
Paul Broster

The man accused of sexually assaulting and murdering 11y ear-old Lesley Molseed yesterday insisted: "I did not kill her." Comic book trader Ronald Castree, 54, denied snatching her 32 years ago and stabbing her to death on desolate moorland. Instead his defence team named "violent and dangerous paedophile" Raymond Hewlett.
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Lesley Molseed murder trial: Finger pointed at ex-Tod man

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6 November 2007 
Halifax Evening Courier

The jury in the Lesley Molseed murder trial has heard that her killer could have been a former Todmorden man. Ronald Castree, 54, denies murdering the 11-year-old schoolgirl on moorland above Ripponden in October 1975. And yesterday, defence counsel Rodney Jameson QC told Bradford Crown Court that there was "an overwhelming possibility" that the man who sexually assaulted her and stabbed her 12 times was convicted paedophile, Raymond Hewlett.
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Defendant denies murdering girl 30 years ago

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5 November 2007
Press Association
Dave Higgens


The man accused of murdering schoolgirl Lesley Molseed more than 30 years ago told a jury today that he did not kill the 11-year-old. Ronald Castree, 54, was asked if he was guilty almost as soon as he took to the witness box at Bradford Crown Court. Rodney Jameson QC, defending, asked him: "Did you murder Lesley Molseed?" Standing with his hands clasped in front on him, bald-headed Castree replied: "No, sir. I did not kill Lesley Molseed."
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Lesley Molseed murder trial

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Defence claims Calderdale paedophile is real killer
5 November 2007
Halifax Evening Courier


A defence barrister has named a man who may have murdered schoolgirl Lesley Molseed more than 30 years ago. Rodney Jameson, QC, told Bradford Crown Court today there was "an overwhelming possibility" the man who murdered Lesley, of Delamere Road, Rochdale, was convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett, formerly of Todmorden. Mr Hewlett was investigated by police in 1992 after Stefan Kiszko, who was wrongly accused of the murder and spent 16 years in prison for it, had his conviction quashed.
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Lesley Molseed murder trial: defence claims Calderdale paedophile is real killer

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5 November 2007
Halifax Evening Courier

A DEFENCE barrister has named a man who may have murdered schoolgirl Lesley Molseed more than 30 years ago. Rodney Jameson, QC, told Bradford Crown Court today there was "an overwhelming possibility" the man who murdered Lesley, of Delamere Road, Rochdale, was convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett, formerly of Todmorden.
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DNA 'doubt' in Lesley case

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DNA 'doubt' in Lesley case
26 October 2007
Manchester Evening News
Nicola Dowling

A forensic expert who saw Lesley Molseed's body on the moors said the person whose DNA was on her clothes might not be her murderer. Ronald Castree, 53, of Brandon Crescent, Shaw, Oldham, is charged with sexually assaulting the 11-year-old Rochdale girl and stabbing her to death in 1975. He denies the charge. The prosecution says DNA taken from semen found in Lesley's underwear is an exact match to that taken from Castree when he was arrested on an unrelated matter in 2005.
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Forensic expert tells of moor scene where girl's body found

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26 October 2007
Yorkshire Post


THE only living witness to visit the place where 11-year-old Lesley Molseed was found murdered 32 years ago gave evidence in court yesterday . Ronald Outteridge, a retired forensic scientist, said he was convinced the schoolgirl was killed at the lonely moorland spot where her body was found.Ronald Castree, 54, of Shaw, Oldham, who is on trial at Bradford Crown Court, denies murdering her in October 1975.
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