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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...
Jun 15, 2023 · Pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling two 15-year-old girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.
Pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling two 15-year-old girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986. After being released and then recalled in 2021,...
Colin Pitchfork (born 23 March 1960) is an English child-murderer and child-rapist. He was the first person convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling after he murdered two girls in neighbouring Leicestershire villages: Lynda Mann in Narborough in November 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in Enderby in July 1986.
- 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...
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...
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Sep 1, 2021 · Dawn Ashworth (left) and Lynda Mann were killed when they were 15. Pitchfork pleaded guilty to two murders, two rapes, two indecent assaults and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and became the first person in the UK to be convicted on the basis of DNA evidence.
