You've got the wrong man again, says 'sex murder' defendant

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.

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

Lesley Molseed murder trial: Finger pointed at ex-Tod man

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.

Continue Reading... Labels: Christopher Coverdale, DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Ronald Castree, Rosalee Dolan, Rosalie Dolan, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

Defendant denies murdering girl 30 years ago

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."

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Ronald Outteridge, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

Lesley Molseed murder trial

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.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Stefan Kiszko

Lesley Molseed murder trial: 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.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Stefan Kiszko

DNA 'doubt' in Lesley case

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.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Ronald Outteridge

Forensic expert tells of moor scene where girl's body found

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.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Ronald Outteridge, Stefan Kiszko

Forensic expert re-lives Molseed murder scene

25 October 2007
Press Association
Amy Caulfield

A court heard evidence today from the only living witness to visit the place where 11-year-old Lesley Molseed was found murdered more than 30 years ago. Ronald Outteridge, a retired forensic scientist, told Bradford Crown Court how he went to a moor where Lesley's body was found to collect samples for testing. He was giving evidence at the trial of Ronald Castree, 54, of Shaw, Oldham, who is accused of murdering the young girl in October 1975. Cross-examining Mr Outteridge, defence barrister Rodney Jameson QC, told the jury how anyone else who visited the scene of the murder at the time had since died.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Ronald Outteridge, Stefan Kiszko

Trial hears from 1975 forensic expert

Trial hears from 1975 forensic expert 
25 October 2007 
Yorkshire Post

The  jury trying an Oldham man accused of murdering Lesley Molseed have heard from the only living witness to have visited the moorland spot where her body was found. Ronald Outteridge, a retired forensic scientist, described his visit to the remote moorland where Lesley's body was discovered close to the A672 between Oldham and Ripponden. He was giving evidence at the Bradford trial of Ronald Castree, 54, who is accused of murdering the young girl in October 1975.

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Ronald Castree, Ronald Outteridge

Man denies Molseed murder

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.

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