Horror cries out for justice 28 years on

4 February 2003
Yorkshire Post

A simple errand to buy her mum a loaf of bread from a local shop led to one of the biggest manhunts in history. Lesley Molseed, a slightly built 11-year-old girl, was abducted and sexually assaulted before being stabbed to death on a remote moor in 1975. Her death shocked a nation but the conviction of tax clerk Stefan Kiszko drew the matter to a close for a time. However, forensic evidence proved conclusively he could not have been Lesley's killer and he was freed in 1992 after spending 16 years in jail.

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

DNA evidence could nail Lesley's killer

4 February 2003
Yorkshire Post

Detectives hunting the killer of a schoolgirl who was murdered 27 years ago announced a dramatic breakthrough in their investigation yesterday. They now have a DNA profile from semen left at the scene of the crime by, police believe, the killer of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed. And they revealed that their prime suspect, convicted child abuser Raymond Hewlett, formerly of Todmorden, was no longer being investigated in connection with the inquiry. The DNA profile has categorically ruled him out. The senior investigating officer in charge of the investigation, Det Chief Supt Max Mclean, of West Yorkshire Police, said he was hoping the development would catch the killer.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Max McLean, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, West Yorkshire Police

Do you know this man?

13 January 2002
The Sunday Mirror
Nicola Tallant

Probe into girl's murder 26 years ago switches to Ireland as police track runaway Hewlett...A suspected child killer and convicted paedophile is on the loose and thought to be hiding in Ireland

UK police say Raymond Hewlett, 56, who has been jailed for a catalogue of child sex crimes and assaults in Britain, is known to have lived in Donegal, Louth and Kerry and visited at least nine counties.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, Donegal, FSS, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Max McLean, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Scots Guard, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

Gardai appeal for man over child killing

13 January 2002
The People
Nicola Tallant

Police have released chilling new pictures of pervert Raymond Hewlett who they want to question over the death of a schoolgirl and who believe may be hiding out in Ireland. Officers in the UK have released a photograph taken in 1997 which shows the 56-year-old paedophile father of eight with his pregnant girlfriend Marianne Schmucker in the hope that someone may recognise him. They believe the sex beast who has kidnapped, raped and assaulted several young girls may still be with Marianne and a child.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, Donegal, FSS, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Max McLean, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, West Yorkshire Police

On the run

6 January 2002
Sunday Mail
Norman Silvester

A chilling picture showing suspected child killer Raymond Hewlett in Scotland has been released by detectives. Former Scots Guardsman Hewlett, 55, is wanted over the murder and sexual assault of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed in 1975. Stefan Kiszko spent 16 years in jail after being wrongly convicted of her murder.

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

Police release new pictures of suspect in Molseed case

31 December 2001
Ian Herbert
The Independent

One of Britain's most ill-fated murder inquiries, which has already sent an innocent man to jail for 16 years, is piling more frustration on detectives who have now identified a prime suspect but cannot locate him.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Scots Guard, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

No hiding place

18 December 2001
Yorkshire Evening Post
David Bruce

New pictures of a wanted man in connection with the murder of an 11-year-old girl more than 25 years ago were issued today. Paedophile Raymond Hewlett, 56, was one of seven men targeted in the News Of The World at the weekend. He has a string of convictions for assaulting and raping children.

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

HUNT FOR RUNAWAY PAEDO IN IRELAND

18 December 2001
Mirror
By NIALL MOONAN

Brit pervert poses risk

ONE of Britain's most dangerous paedophiles is being hunted in Ireland, it was revealed yesterday.

Vicious sex offender Raymond Hewlett, 56, is on the run from English police and Irish authorities have been told he is hiding here.

In the past Hewlett, who sedates his victims before sexually assaulting them, has fled to Ireland to escape the British authorities and they believe he may now be back.

Hewlett is a suspect in the savage sex murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed in Rochdale in 1975 and Gardai have revealed he still poses a serious danger to children.

A Garda source said: "This man is dangerous and should not be approached. We have been working closely with colleagues in Britain to track him down.

"We have a file on him and obviously it's in everyone's interests to find him given his past record."

Hewlett, originally from Blackpool in Lancashire, has also been investigated over possible links with several women who went missing in Leinster.

But Operation Trace, the Garda squad set up to investigate the disappearances, could find no connection between him and any of the cases.

Hewlett's connections with Ireland date back to 1997 when he was spotted cruising remote areas in a van.

He also claimed social welfare benefits in Kinsale, Co Cork, Dundalk, Co Louth, Sligo and Letterkenny, Dunfanaghy and Buncrana, Co Donegal.

Hewlett has convictions for rape and sex assaults and is considered to be a serious danger especially to young girls.

One Garda revealed: "Hewlett poses as an undercover police officer to search young girls or befriends their family to gain access to their children."

Hewlett is 5ft 8ins, of stocky build, has blue/green eyes, is balding at the front and has a prominent upper lip.

He also has "Sue" tattooed on his left wrist. Anyone who may have seen him is asked to contact Gardai on 1800 666 111.

Continue Reading... Labels: Donegal, Lesley Molseed, No. Ireland, Raymond Hewlett

Face of man in Lesley murder probe

18 December 2001
Manchester Evening News
Andrew Nott

A new picture of a fugitive wanted for questioning about an infamous child murder was released today. An international search for Raymond Hewlett has been under way since police re-opened the investigation into the 1975 sex killing of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed, from Rochdale.

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

Molseed murder suspect on most wanted list

18 December 2001
Rochdale Observer

An international search for Raymond Hewlett has been under way since police re-opened the investigation into the 1975 sex killing of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed, from Rochdale. Hewlett is one of a number of men singled out by police probing the murder on moorland above Ripponden. Hewlett was included as one of seven convicted paedophiles featured in a ''name and shame'' article in a Sunday newspaper. They were highlighted as potentially dangerous men the police had lost track of. Their names and pictures were published after the conviction of pervert Roy Whiting for the murder of Sarah Payne.

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