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[quote=GHOST,251539]One-in-a-billion DNA match links suspect to girl’s murder, 32 years on by Russell Jenkins, Times Online correspondent - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2726748.ece?EMC-Bltn

A part-time taxi driver stabbed an 11-year-old girl to death in a frenzied sex attack 32 years ago and allowed an innocent man to go to jail for the murder, Bradford Crown Court was told yesterday.

Ronald Castree, now 54 and a comic-book dealer, is accused of abducting Lesley Molseed as she was on her way to the shops in Rochdale in October, 1975, and driving her to a “lonely spot” on the moors. Her body was discovered there three days later.

Mr Castree allegedly stabbed her 12 times. Julian Goose, QC, opening for the prosecution, said that Mr Castree lured a nine-year-old girl into his taxi nine months later and took her to a derelict house, where he subjected her a similar assault before she kicked out, broke free and ran home.

Stefan Kiszko, a tax clerk, was found guilty of Lesley’s murder in July 1976, and went on to serve more than 16 years in jail before conclusive evidence showed that he could not have been the killer.

Mr Goose told the jury that it was only DNA technology that enabled police to extract the real killer’s genetic profile. The match to a swab taken from Mr Castree after an unrelated incident in 2005 represented a one-in-a-billion match, he said.

Mr Castree, from Shaw, near Oldham, scribbled notes. He denies murder. Mr Goose said that the DNA match was an exact one.

“The man who carried out those acts had a sexual interest in very young girls and, in a violent rage, killed Lesley Molseed in a frenzied attack with a knife,” Mr Goose said. “That man was definitely not Stefan Kiszko.”[/quote]

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