Christopher Coverdale

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Innocents
How Justice Failed Stefan Kiszko and Lesley Molseed
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"At 1:45 p.m. on the Sunday Christopher Coverdale, a self-employed contractor from Rochdale, drove past the scene.  As he approached the lay-by he saw a man and a little girl on the embankment above the lay-by.  His attention was on these people, so that he had not noticed any car, he thought it foolhardy to be on the moor in poor weather conditions, especially with a child. He recalled the child was wearing a blue, hip-length gabardine coat with the hood up. He believed the child to be a girl, because he could see uncovered legs. The man was facing towards the road, reaching down the embankment and pulling the child up by the hand.  Coverdale described the man as being a 30 to 35 year-old white male, with light-brown or fair hair cut short and giving the appearance of being receding. He was five feet six to five feet eight, plump and dressed in a mid-brown jacket with a check pattern, matching trousers and a beige or mustard-yellow cardigan.


This was the first description obtained of a man and a child.  Dibb was anxious to act, and he personally took Coverdale to the lay-by.  It was not the cold which caused Jack Dibb to shiver when, asked to show the place where the man and child were standing, Coverdale pointed out a spot within yards of the place where Lesley had been found."
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Who killed Lesley Molseed?

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Innocents
How justice failed Stefan Kiszko and Lesley Molseed
   
The following are notes and excerpts from Chapter 22 which deals with events related to Raymond Hewlett *after* Stefan Kiszko was released from prison.  Kiszko spent 16 years wrongly incarcerated for the 1975 murder of Lesley Molseed.

Upon the exposure of this miscarriage of justice (conviction in July 1976/life sentence) and Kiszko's release from prison in 1992, a new investigation began and the original police files were reviewed.  Following up on certain leads had abruptly stopped after Kiszko's conviction. The following describes how and why Raymond Hewlett became the Number One suspect in the Molseed case.


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Innocents: 
How Justice Failed Stefan Kiszko and Lesley Molseed
 Jonathan Rose (Author), Steve Panter (Author), Trevor Wilkinson (Author)
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London, 1997 - ISBN: 1857024028 (Out of Print)

In 1975 eleven-year-old Lesley Molseed was abducted and stabbed to death on a Pennine moor, her killer having ejaculated over her body. Stefan Kiszko confessed to her murder and spent 16 years in jail. At the time no positive forensic evidence was offered. He was released in 1991 when the Law Lords declared he could not have been the killer.

(Note: Raymond Hewlett is named in this book as the prime suspect in the murder of Lesley Molseed.)
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Starting the hunt all over again

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14 November 2007 
Rochdale Observer

The day after Stefan Kiszko’s acquittal, West Yorkshire police reopened the investigation into Lesley Molseed’s murder. A murder incident room manned by 15 detectives was set up at Bradford police station and fresh information about possible suspects had already been sifted through.
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Man denies Molseed murder

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20 April 2007
Halifax Evening Courier


A man has denied murdering schoolgirl Lesley Molseed 32 years ago in a brutal sexually motivated stabbing. Ronald Castree, 53, yesterday pleaded not guilty at Bradford Crown Court to the murder committed between October 4 and October 9, 1975.
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Lawyer's case link

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16 November 2006
The Sun


The barrister representing a man accused of the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed wrote a book about the case in 1998. Jonathan Rose is author of the 1998 book Innocents, which focused on the murder of 11-year-old Lesley 31 years ago and the wrongful imprisonment of Stefan Kiszko. Mr Kiszko spent 16 years in prison before being released in 1992. He died a year later. Accused Ronald Castree, 53, of Oldham, Manchester, appeared at Bradford Crown Court on Tuesday. He was remanded in custody.
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Molseed murder: accused in court

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15 November 2006
Halifax Evening Courier
Elaine Jinks


The man accused of murdering schoolgirl Lesley Molseed 31 years ago has appeared before a judge at Bradford Crown Court. Ronald Castree, 53, who was flanked by two security guards spoke only once to confirm his name and remained impassive throughout the 15 minute hearing. The market trader of Brandon Crescent, Shaw, Oldham, was arrested at his home on November 3 and charged with Lesley's murder three days later as new evidence came to light in the historic case.
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Arrest in 30-year-old murde

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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.
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Tragic trail begain with a trip for a loaf

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5 February 2003
Rochdale Observer

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Girl killer suspect's hideaway

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6 August 2000
The News of the World
Amanda Revell Walton


A ruthless sex fiend and suspected child killer is in hiding in Ireland after dodging cops who had been tracking him for years. Detectives want to question paedophile Raymond Hewlett, 55, in connection with a series of attempts to abduct children in the Republic. Hewlett has a string of convictions for kidnapping, raping and indecently assaulting young girls. He is also the main suspect for the murder of 11-year-old schoolgirl Lesley Molseed who was molested and then stabbed to death on Britain's Yorkshire moors 25 years ago.
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TV-call hope in murder of girl

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18 September 1999
Yorkshire Post
Joanne Ginley


The family of murdered schoolgirl Lesley Molseed is hoping an emotional call to a TV programme might help to catch her killer. The caller to ITV's This Morning show from Lancashire claimed to have been sexually abused by her own father more than 20 years ago. She said he had been a suspect in the murder of a schoolgirl. And she gave other information which Lesley's family say fits the description of a man they believe killed the 11-year-old girl they refer to as "Our Lel", whose battered body was found in a lay-by at Ripponden in 1975. Yesterday her sister, Julie Anderson, who has seen a tape of the programme which went out on Tuesday, said: "She said everything that was crucial, everything that pointed to him."
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Mystery woman in TV phone clue to murder

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18 September 1999
Manchester Evening News
Neal Snowdon


The family of a girl murdered in 1975 whose killer has never been brought to justice are hoping a call to a TV programme could provide a vital breakthrough. Lesley Molseed, 11, was killed after leaving her home on Rochdale's Turf Hill estate to buy bread for her mother. She was found murdered, stabbed and sexually assaulted at Rishworth Moor, near Oldham. Now a woman calling herself `Julie from Lancashire' has agreed to speak to police after taking part in a phone-in on ITV's This Morning programme and speaking to presenter Judy Finnegan. Lesley's family believe details mentioned by the woman about her father in the two-minute call could lead detectives to the murderer.
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Stefan's aunt hails new move to bring suspect to justice

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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.
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Agony never ended after little girl was murdered

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19 March 1999
Manchester Evening News
Neal Snowdon and Steve Panter
Torment of two tragic families for 24 years


The murder of Lesley Molseed was a tragedy which has devastated the lives of two families for 24 years. Lesley's family has faced unimaginable suffering since her body was found on moorland on October 8, 1975. Their agony has never ended, because they know that Lesley's brutal murderer remains free.

Parallel to the Molseeds' torment was that of Stefan Kiszko and his family. He was innocent, but served 16 years in different jails, while his courageous mother Charlotte fought a tireless campaign to prove he was not a murderer. Stefan always resisted invitations to make a later confession - the only way he could ever get a release date, unless he was proved innocent.
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Too late for Stefan, but lawyers now seek private prosecution

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19 March 1999
Manchester Evening News
Neal Snowdon


A man suspected of murdering schoolgirl Lesley Molseed 24 years ago could face a sensational murder trial in a private prosecution brought by her family. Relatives of 11-year-old Lesley have asked Manchester lawyers to bring the action against Raymond Hewlett, a convicted paedophile.
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Dragnet for a sex beast

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3 January 1999
Sunday Mail
Police hunt switches to Scotland


One of the most evil paedophiles in Britain may be hiding out in Scotland. Raymond Hewlett, 53, is a convicted child abuser who has raped a 12-year old-girl. He was also named in a book recently as the prime suspect for the unsolved rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in England.
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Murder crusade takes to streets

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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.
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An American nightmare in Yorkshire

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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.
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Paedophile flees as town's parents learn of his past

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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.
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Mother demands murder inquiry

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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)
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