One of the first stories I remember was the murder of 11-year-old Lesley Moleseed in 1975. It wasn't so much the details that stuck in my head - it was Lesley's picture in the papers and on the telly. I was about ten at the time so she probably looked like the kids in my class.
I forgot about it until the photo re-emerged in the news when Stefan Kiszko, the victim of the most terrible miscarriage of justice and quite dreadful police work, was finally released after wrongly serving 16 years for Lesley's murder.
Now Ronald Castree has been locked up for killing Lesley on a lonely moor in West Yorkshire.
He was nailed by some vastly superior police work and DNA testing.
Castree had stopped off on his way to hospital to see his wife and newborn son when he sexually assaulted Lesley and stabbed her to death.
Then he sat back and watched poor bloody Stefan pay the terrible price of his ghastly crime.
How's that for a test of forgiveness, Christian or otherwise?
Anyway, we've got a page of coverage on this story on one of our national pages tomorrow.
The splash is about new airport style checks at pubs and clubs in North Wales to catch people carrying knives. We've also got an amusing picture of Prince Charles. FInd out more tomorrow.
Roy Haworth wrote...
Yes we should remember Leslie.
But let us also remember Stephan Kishko.
This poor man bullied into making a confession by the police in this case.
Sent to prison and sufferd diabolicaly at the hands of prisoners and prison officers alike.
Somone should be made to answer for his treatment, his years of absolute Hell on Earth.
I've been in prison and seen how people convicted of this type of offence are treated innocent or guilty.
Posted by: Roy Haworth | November 14, 2007 8:29 AM