The murderer, now in his early 60s, was the first to be convicted using DNA evidence after his attacks on Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, both 15. Pitchfork, a convicted flasher, left his baby son asleep in a car before killing her - and admitted to police he attacked her simply because "she was there". Image: supplied) supplied)Justice Secretary Robert Buckland branded the decision to release the killer as irrational when it was announced, but officials rejected a last-ditch appeal. Under a legal loophole, the strict monitoring conditions cannot be imposed on anyone convicted of sex crimes before 1997. The terrible consequences of the brutal rapes and murders of two innocent girls will forever darken the lives of the families concerned.

Source: Daily Mirror September 01, 2021 10:21 UTC