Detectives name top suspect in hunt for child killer

22 March 2001 Robert Sutcliffe Yorkshire Post A convicted child abuser has been named by detectives as the prime suspect they want to question in connection with the murder of an 11-year-old schoolgirl 26 years ago. Lesley Molseed's body was found near Ripponden on October 5, 1975. She had been stabbed a dozen times with a knife. The youngster had been abducted three days earlier while running an errand for her mum near their...

Continue Reading... Labels: Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Max McLean, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

New leads on unsolved schoolgirl murder

22 March 2001 Rochdale Observer Among them is a former Rochdale man who subjected his daughter and stepson to five years of persistent sexual abuse. Following a 23-day trial in 1992 - in what was dubbed the orgies-in-the-attic trial - he was jailed for 10 years but has since been released. It is understood he is now living in a hostel in London. On Sunday, the News of the World said the 52-year-old was linked to Raymond Hewlett...

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

Did these monsters murder little Lesley?

18 March 2001 The News of the World Amanda Revell Walton, Terenia Taras Additional reporting: Sarah Arnold, Neville Thurlbeck 25-year- old inquiry is reopened after NOW investigation Two of Britain's most evil paedophiles are to be quizzed over the sex murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed 25 years ago-after new evidence was uncovered by the News of the World. The 11-year-old-known as Little Miss Chatterbox was appallingly assaulted,...

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Max McLean, Michael Horgan, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police