Police release new pictures of suspect in Molseed case

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31 December 2001
Ian Herbert
The Independent


One of Britain's most ill-fated murder inquiries, which has already sent an innocent man to jail for 16 years, is piling more frustration on detectives who have now identified a prime suspect but cannot locate him.
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No hiding place

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18 December 2001
Yorkshire Evening Post
David Bruce


New pictures of a wanted man in connection with the murder of an 11-year-old girl more than 25 years ago were issued today. Paedophile Raymond Hewlett, 56, was one of seven men targeted in the News Of The World at the weekend. He has a string of convictions for assaulting and raping children.
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HUNT FOR RUNAWAY PAEDO IN IRELAND

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18 December 2001
Mirror
By NIALL MOONAN


Brit pervert poses risk

ONE of Britain's most dangerous paedophiles is being hunted in Ireland, it was revealed yesterday.

Vicious sex offender Raymond Hewlett, 56, is on the run from English police and Irish authorities have been told he is hiding here.

In the past Hewlett, who sedates his victims before sexually assaulting them, has fled to Ireland to escape the British authorities and they believe he may now be back.

Hewlett is a suspect in the savage sex murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed in Rochdale in 1975 and Gardai have revealed he still poses a serious danger to children.

A Garda source said: "This man is dangerous and should not be approached. We have been working closely with colleagues in Britain to track him down.

"We have a file on him and obviously it's in everyone's interests to find him given his past record."

Hewlett, originally from Blackpool in Lancashire, has also been investigated over possible links with several women who went missing in Leinster.

But Operation Trace, the Garda squad set up to investigate the disappearances, could find no connection between him and any of the cases.

Hewlett's connections with Ireland date back to 1997 when he was spotted cruising remote areas in a van.

He also claimed social welfare benefits in Kinsale, Co Cork, Dundalk, Co Louth, Sligo and Letterkenny, Dunfanaghy and Buncrana, Co Donegal.

Hewlett has convictions for rape and sex assaults and is considered to be a serious danger especially to young girls.

One Garda revealed: "Hewlett poses as an undercover police officer to search young girls or befriends their family to gain access to their children."

Hewlett is 5ft 8ins, of stocky build, has blue/green eyes, is balding at the front and has a prominent upper lip.

He also has "Sue" tattooed on his left wrist. Anyone who may have seen him is asked to contact Gardai on 1800 666 111.
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Face of man in Lesley murder probe

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18 December 2001
Manchester Evening News
Andrew Nott


A new picture of a fugitive wanted for questioning about an infamous child murder was released today. An international search for Raymond Hewlett has been under way since police re-opened the investigation into the 1975 sex killing of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed, from Rochdale.
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Molseed murder suspect on most wanted list

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18 December 2001
Rochdale Observer


An international search for Raymond Hewlett has been under way since police re-opened the investigation into the 1975 sex killing of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed, from Rochdale. Hewlett is one of a number of men singled out by police probing the murder on moorland above Ripponden. Hewlett was included as one of seven convicted paedophiles featured in a ''name and shame'' article in a Sunday newspaper. They were highlighted as potentially dangerous men the police had lost track of. Their names and pictures were published after the conviction of pervert Roy Whiting for the murder of Sarah Payne.
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Lesley murder suspect on most-wanted list

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17 December 2001
Macclesfield Express


A convicted paedophile named by the Manchester Evening News as the prime suspect in the Lesley Molseed murder has been revealed as one of the country's most wanted child sex fiends.
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Top suspect on sex list

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17 December 2001
Halifax Evening Courier


A man suspected of murdering schoolgirl Lesley Molseed in 1975 has been named as one of Britain s most wanted paedophiles.
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Police want you to help trap these paedophiles

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Now tell us Sarah's Law won't work;
For Sarah; NOW campaign against paedophiles
Peter Rose
16 December 2001
The News of the World

Anyone with information should contact police on 0808 1000040 or 020 7230 3104

THESE are the faces of seven child-sex fiends all prowling the streets of Britain.

Any one of them could be a potential Roy Whiting, yet the police have no idea where almost all of them are.

Scotland Yard called in the News of the World and asked us to publish the pictures in the hope that readers will recognise them.

It demonstrates more clearly than ever before that senior police officers TRUST the public to behave responsibly when given controlled access to information about paedophiles in their midst.

Yet politicians publicly insist that Sarah's Law won't work!

Controlled access is at the core of Sarah's Law, demanded by the News of the World and the overwhelming majority of the nation since Sarah Payne's murdered body was discovered.

Detective Chief Inspector Bob McLachlan, of the Yard's paedophile unit, told the News of the World: "We've taken this unusual step of releasing photos of known sex offenders in a bid to trace them. They've all been convicted of sex offences against children and are considered dangerous.

"They've since been released from prison but have breached the Sex Offenders Act by signing on the sex offenders register but not telling us their whereabouts.

"I want people to be vigilant, not vigilante."

Also, attacks will only harm our For Sarah campaign. Just call one of the telephone numbers at the foot of Page 3 and police will be on the scene in minutes.

The decision to release the pictures of those men under the Met's jurisdiction was endorsed by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Carol Howlett, who is the lead officer on sex offenders for the Association of Chief Police Officers.

These are the wanted men:

WARWICK SPINKS. Aged 37. Dubbed the Pied Piper of Paedophiles, Spinks has roamed the globe using a fake identity since breaking parole in 1997.

Evil In 1995 he was convicted of drugging and kidnapping a 14-year-old boy and selling him to a gay brothel in Amsterdam.

Earlier this year we tracked Spinks to the Canary Islands. He may now be back in Britain.

DCI McLachlan said: "He is a dangerous, evil man and no child is safe while he is at large. The children of this country have the right to be protected."

RAYMOND PERKINS. Aged 62. Convicted in 1969 at Brentford Magistrates Court of indecently assaulting a 13-year-old boy by tying him to a post and removing his clothes. Perkins pleaded guilty and got just three years' probation.

In May 1989 he was convicted of indecently assaulting an eight-year-old boy. This time he was jailed for nine months.

But in August 1997, he was convicted on counts of gross indecency and indecent assault.

In April 1998 police went to his east London address and found him with three boys. Perkins was in breach of his licence conditions and recalled to prison.

He was released again in November 1998 and directed to a London bail hostel. Has been missing since August 1999. Considered a high-risk sex offender.

DAVID BARON. Aged 62. Walks with a slight stoop and has a tattoo on his left arm saying 'Sahara 1961 Foreign Legion'. Speaks fluent French. In 1998 he was convicted of 27 charges of possessing indecent images of children and was jailed for two months.

Two thousand pictures of children under 16 were found. Baron served his sentence at HM Prison Wandsworth but was released in January 1999. Baron's last known address was in west London.

ZIA ASAD ALOWI. Aged 33. Convicted in November 1997 at the Old Bailey and jailed for five years for one count of rape and five counts of indecent assault on a 13-year-old girl. Released in October last year to a bail hostel in Camberwell, south London. Left there the following month.

TUAN QUANG HO. Aged 25. Vietnamese. Arrested in December 1996 for indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl after getting her drunk. Convicted in May 1997 at Kingston Crown Court on two counts of indecent assault.

Received 14 months detention in Feltham young offenders' institution. Released in December 1997 and initially registered an address in south-east London. In October 2000 he was still there. But he appears to have left in May this year.

RAYMOND HEWLETT. Age 56. Release of his picture was sanctioned by the West Yorkshire force. He is one of a number of suspects being sought by them over the 1975 sex murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed in Rochdale, Lancs.

Detective Chief Superintendent Max McLean, who keeps a photo of Lesley on his desk, opened 148 new lines of inquiry into her murder as a result of our dossier.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman confirmed last night it would be useful for the News of the World to publish a photograph of Raymond Hewlett, saying he is still missing.

The spokesman said: "I've spoken to DCI Max McLean this morning and he says yes it would. He's still one of a number of suspects we are trying to trace. We'd welcome anything that helps."

Hewlett has a string of convictions for abducting and raping young girls and has served long stretches in jail. He was last thought to be working on trawlers under another identity.

WILFRED THELLMANN. Aged 45. The only man on this list whose whereabouts are known by the police. But the Met force have unusally sanctioned using his picture to let people know of his existence.

The father of two walked free from Wandsworth prison after serving his last sentence. Originally from Long Eaton in Nottinghamshire, he has convictions for indecent assaults on young girls and taking indecent photos which date back over the last 16 years.

One police source said: "There is no doubt he is a danger to children and will go on to offend again."

Turn to Page 10 for more information on paedophiles in your area.
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200 Sex monsters prowling in Ireland

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3 June 2001
People
Jason Johnson


GARDAI fear there are up to 200 serious sex offenders roaming free in Ireland - and they have no way of wiping out the massive risk of them re-offending. Among the rag-bag of sickos are child sex offenders and serial rapists who have shattered hundreds of young lives between them.
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Police open third inquiry into 1975 killing of girl, 11

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3 May 2001
Ian Herbert
The Independent

The long and ill-fated hunt for the killer of Lesley Molseed, the 11-year-old girl murdered and dumped on Pennine moorland 26 years ago, is to be relaunched. The case is infamous for the wrongful conviction and 16-year imprisonment of Stefan Kiszko, who died in 1993 - the year after he was eventually acquitted and freed. DNA evidence from semen, found on Lesley's body but not revealed in court, proved he could not have been the murderer.
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Lesley Molseed murder hunt to be re-launched - Police work on M.E.N. evidence

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2 May 2001
Manchester Evening News
Andrew Nott


THE hunt for the killer of 11-year-old schoolgirl Lesley Molseed, who was stabbed to death 26 years ago, is to be officially re-launched, it was revealed today.  Lesley, from Rochdale, was knifed 12 times in 1975 and the first inquiry led to innocent Stefan Kiszko spending 16 years in jail.  A second investigation identified another prime suspect - but failed to gather sufficient evidence to charge him.
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Mother waits with hope of seeing justice

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14 April 2001
Yorkshire Post


Twenty-five years after the murder of her 11-year-old daughter Lesley Molseed, April Garrett tells Robert Sutcliffe that recent police moves to find the killer means she can now see light at the end of the tunnel. Lesley Molseed was a born fighter. As a baby she underwent the trauma of open heart surgery and spent her first year in a Glasswegian hospital battling for survival. Her mother, April Garrett, recalls that she left the hospital a year later, the same weight, 7lb 4oz, as when she was born. She won that battle and grew up enjoying everything life had to offer. But her courage was no protection against the merciless brutality of an unknown assassin who stabbed her to death on a remote moor 25 years ago.
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Detectives name top suspect in hunt for child killer

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22 March 2001
Robert Sutcliffe
Yorkshire Post

A convicted child abuser has been named by detectives as the prime suspect they want to question in connection with the murder of an 11-year-old schoolgirl 26 years ago. Lesley Molseed's body was found near Ripponden on October 5, 1975. She had been stabbed a dozen times with a knife. The youngster had been abducted three days earlier while running an errand for her mum near their home in Rochdale. Det Chief Supt Max McLean, who is leading the investigation, said he was confident he would find Raymond Hewlett, a former Todmorden man, aged 56.  Officers are following up 148 leads in a dossier following a Sunday newspaper investigation.
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New leads on unsolved schoolgirl murder

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22 March 2001
Rochdale Observer


Among them is a former Rochdale man who subjected his daughter and stepson to five years of persistent sexual abuse. Following a 23-day trial in 1992 - in what was dubbed the orgies-in-the-attic trial - he was jailed for 10 years but has since been released. It is understood he is now living in a hostel in London. On Sunday, the News of the World said the 52-year-old was linked to Raymond Hewlett - a convicted paedophile already under suspicion of Lesley's death - and a third, unnamed man.

Lesley disappeared from her home in Turf Hill on 5 October 1975 on her way to buy a loaf of bread. Three days later her body was found on the desolate moorland above the A627 Oldham to Halifax Road. She had been stabbed repeatedly. The man convicted of her killing, Stefan Kiszko, who spent 16 years in prison protesting his innocence, was cleared of the crime in February 1992. He died shortly afterwards.

According to the News of the World, the man it names was known to Lesley and was spotted on the day of her disappearance luring her away from the shop with a bag of sweets. It says that, later that day, the distraught child was seen with her abductor, clawing to get out of the car. Early the next day, says the report, he and another man spent two hours scrubbing clean a blue van.

It says that Lesley's body was found five miles from a house where the man under suspicion - along with other paedophiles - subjected children to abuse. It claims he was a close friend of Hewlett at the time of Lesley's murder. The newspaper also says it has tapes of a meeting it set up between the man and his ex-wife. Quizzing him about Lesley's death, he is said to reply: "You're putting me in a coffin.''

A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: "We cannot name individuals but I can confirm that we are investigating information that stems from this document and 148 new lines of inquiry. "The investigation may take some time, but we have a team of officers involved in the case.''
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Did these monsters murder little Lesley?

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18 March 2001
The News of the World
Amanda Revell Walton, Terenia Taras
Additional reporting: Sarah Arnold, Neville Thurlbeck

25-year- old inquiry is reopened after NOW investigation

Two of Britain's most evil paedophiles are to be quizzed over the sex murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed 25 years ago-after new evidence was uncovered by the News of the World.

The 11-year-old-known as Little Miss Chatterbox was appallingly assaulted, knifed to death and left on moors. The News of the World has now linked the horror to pink-haired Michael Horgan, Raymond Hewlett and a third man we are not naming.

A hardened detective, who keeps a photo of Lesley on his desk, has opened 148 new lines of inquiry into her murder as a result of our dossier. Det Chief Supt Max McLean glanced at the picture and said:

"I've been looking at it for some time. This is a case that stirs you to want to do your best. Your dossier's been extremely helpful."

Lesley, who had a heart defect, was killed in October 1975 while on an errand for her mum. She was sexually assaulted, knifed 12 times and dumped near her home town of Rochdale, Lancs. Educationally subnormal Stefan Kiszko was found guilty of the murder, but freed after 16 years when DNA evidence cleared him.

Our dossier indicates that satanic child-sex abuser Horgan-now 52 and with a Mohican hairstyle-'groomed' Lesley leading up to her death. On the afternoon of her disappearance, loner Horgan - now at a hostel in London's Elephant and Castle-was spotted luring her away from the shops with a bag of sweets. Later that day he was seen with the distraught child clawing to get out of a car.

Early the next day he and the man we are not naming spent two hours meticulously scrubbing a blue van. We also discovered Lesley's body was found five miles from a house where Horgan and other paedophiles subjected children to satanic abuse. He was a close friend of serial child sex offender Hewlett, now 56, at the time of the murder.

Tapes

We have tapes of meetings we set up between Horgan and his ex-wife Eileen, 63.

She quizzes him about Lesley. He replies:

"You're putting me in a coffin."

Horgan's stepdaughter, a schoolpal of Lesley, vividly recalls Horgan bringing the 11-year-old back to their home. The 33-year-old stepdaughter said:

"My stepdad said, 'Do you want some sweets?' Lesley said, 'Yeah'."

Eileen recalls seeing Horgan leading Lesley away from a nearby sweetshop. She said:

"She was walking by the side of him."

Witness Sandra Creese, 57, saw him with a little girl in blue clothing crying in a car with a man.

"She looked very frightened," Sandra said. "She put her hands up to the window."

Eileen said the next morning Horgan ordered her to fill a bucket of water. Eileen said he and the unnamed man cleaned the van. She said:

"You name it, they cleaned it. Then we had to do the wheels."

Horgan and his associate then scrubbed up and dumped their clothes. Eileen was ordered to cut their nails-even scraping dirt from under them. Horgan also ordered his wife to cut his hair short.

"He used to love his long hair," she said.

Horgan was convicted in 1992 of hanging children from hooks and sexually abusing them in satanic rituals.

Hewlett has a string of convictions for abducting and raping young girls and has served long stretches in jail. He is believed to be working on trawlers under another identity.

Note:

Raymond Hewlett was considered to be the prime suspect in disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Questions have been raised regarding the McCann photofit of alleged abductor, bearing a remarkable resemblance to Hewlett as he appeared years younger than he was at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.

Det Chief Supt Max McLean traveled to Germany to interview Hewlett  prior to Hewlett's death in German hospital.

July 2011 Questions are being raised regarding the earliest examples of the News of the World hacking phones.  Was this article based on illegally obtained information?  

Why did the News of the World provide details regarding Raymond Hewlett and Michael Horgan and yet protect the identity of the third man they suspect was involved in the Lesley Molseed murder?


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