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Jul 13, 2021 · Colin Pitchfork has served 33 years in jail for raping and murdering 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in the 1980s. Last month the Parole Board said it was safe to release the...
Feb 12, 2024 · Dawn Ashworth and Lynda Mann were raped and murdered by Pitchfork. Pitchfork, who was the first murderer to be convicted using DNA evidence, was released in 2021 but recalled two months later.
Jun 7, 2021 · Colin Pitchfork, 61, was jailed for life for raping and murdering 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in the 1980s. Pitchfork has spent 33 years in prison - he was last...
Jun 8, 2021 · Pitchfork was jailed for life in 1988 for raping and murdering Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire. On Monday the Parole Board said the 61-year-old was suitable for release.
- What Happened to Dawn Ashworth and Lynda Mann?
- How Did DNA Evidence Help with The Investigation?
- How Was The Killer caught?
- What Happened in The Trial?
The first episode of the series begins in Leicestershire in the 1980s. In 1983 and then 1986, the villages of Narborough and Enderby were shaken by the deaths of two local teenage girls, who were attacked and killed in very similar circumstances. On 21 November 1983, 15-year-old Lynda Mann took a shortcut on her way home from babysitting. When she ...
DNA profiling was first developed in 1985 by Alec Jeffreys, along with Peter Gill and Dave Werrett. One of the key factors of their work would prove invaluable in rape cases. It meant that police were able to link a semen sample taken from Mann’s body to a person with type A blood and an enzyme profile that matched only 10 per cent of males. Gill s...
On 1 August 1987, Ian Kelly, a colleage of Colin Pitchfork – a bakery worker from Newbold Verdon, Leicestershire – revealed in a Leicester pub that he had taken Pitchfork’s blood test for him, helping him to fake it. Pitchfork had told Kelly that he could not give blood under his own name because he had already given blood while pretending to be a ...
He pleaded guilty to the two rape and murders in addition to another incident of sexual assault, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Secretary of State set a minimum term of 30 years for his sentence, but in 2009 it was reduced on appeal to 28 years. On 3 May 2018, Pitchfork was denied parole. The Parole Board said Pitchfork will be eligibl...
Mar 22, 2021 · Colin Pitchfork was jailed for life for the killing of 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in the 1980s. He was the first person to be convicted of murder using DNA...
Jun 7, 2021 · Colin Pitchfork was jailed for life after murdering 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986. A hearing took place in March to consider whether he was...
