He was pale. He was thin. He’d grown a beard. He was just a broken person. Storyville: The Life & Trials of Oscar Pistorius II, friend
Being thrust into that limelight probably brought a lot of other pressure a lot of us can’t imagine, especially for a young kid. ibid. fellow para-athlete
At times today the questioning by Pistorius’s defence team was persistent and combative, and it will continue tomorrow as they attempt to show that the evidence against him is not beyond reasonable doubt. Storyville: The Life & Trials of Oscar Pistorius III, BBC news
Pistorius has been involved in a legal battle with the IAAF who argue the blades give him an unfair advantage over able-bodied athletes. ibid.
The evidence in some ways was disappointing. ibid. Rebecca Davis, journalist
Did your gun ‘accidentally’ go off or did you fire at the intruder? Storyville: The Life & Trials of Oscar Pistorius IV, prosecutor
You’re vulnerable but you go towards the danger: why would you do that? ibid.
She was talking to you. She wasn’t scared of an intruder. She was scared of you. ibid.
A tragedy that shook the world: Reeva Steenkamp, a beautiful and talented model, was brutally murdered in the early hours of Valentine’s Day. True Crime Recaps: Oscar Pistorius, Youtube 16.59, 2023
To the prosecution it looked like a cold-blooded murder. ibid.
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DNA would catch a killer for the very first time. Leicestershire: the bright teenager never made it home. A cyclist made the gruesome discovery next morning. It was Lynda Mann. Police combed the scene for clues. The BTK Killer, National Geographic 2013
The sample was put to the test: antibodies revealed that their killer had type A blood. ibid.
Another shocking sex crime shook the country. Another teenage girl was sexually assaulted and murdered. Her name was Dawn Ashworth. ibid.
A local teenager Richard Buckland was reported to police. ibid.
DNA had never been used to solve a crime ... A forensic revolution was under way. ibid.
DNA proved that he [Richard Buckland] was innocent. ibid.
A DNA dragnet was drawn across Leicestershire. ibid.
Colin Pitchfork was twenty-seven ... Detectives finally had a result. ibid.
Distraught Kath Eastwood prayed the monster who killed her daughter would die behind bars.
But murderous pervert Colin Pitchfork – the first criminal in the world to be convicted on DNA evidence – has appealed against his double life sentence.
And the timing couldn’t have been more brutal. Kath learned of his freedom bid on the 25th anniversary of her daughter Lynda Mann’s horrific death.
She has summoned her strength to write to the judge and has pleaded with him never to allow this man to go free. Daily Mirror news online article 31st March 2009
Usual crazies. A couple of mediums. One of them is convinced the killer is a police officer which is why he’s getting away with it. Code of a Killer II, rozzer to investigator, ITV 2015
You’ve got him. You’ve finally got him. ibid. Roberts to investigator
Colin Pitchfork received two life sentences for the murders of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth. ibid.
The body of a small girl Dawn Ashworth … had been raped and strangled … Lynda Mann … semen sampled taken from both crime scenes … They decided to call Doctor [Alec] Jeffreys … The entire case would rest on this groundbreaking work … Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals I: A Question of Identity, BBC 2015
21st November 1983, Narborough, Leicestershire, 8 p.m. ‘Lynda’s body was found just yards from her home by a passer-by.’ Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s2e8: Cracking the Killer’s Code, news report, ITV 2020
Dawn Ashworth: ‘A girl of the same age as Lynda Mann, a girl on her own, going from A to B and disappears.’ ibid. rozzer
‘We contacted Dr Jeffreys and asked him to do a DNA test.’ ibid.
‘The world’s first DNA-based manhunt.’ ibid.
Each year there are over 500 murders in Britain. Every one is a tragedy sending shockwaves through families and communities. But some murders have an impact that no-one could have predicted, sparking a chain of events that ripple far beyond overturning old laws, revolutionising crime detection and ultimately changing the world we live in. Catching Britain’s Killers: The Crimes that Changed Us I, BBC 2019
A hunt to find the killer of two teenage girls leads to a new science – DNA profiling. ibid.
Leicestershire: ‘Lynda left home at 7:15 last night. She told her mother and stepfather she was going to see friends in Enderby.’ ibid. television news
‘Someone who knew the area and was local.’ ibid. lead investigative rozzer
Linda’s killer was blood group A shared by one in three people. ibid.
The screening in Narborough had also demonstrated something else. The potential to collect DNA profiles and store them on a computer database. ibid.
In November 1983 the village of Narborough in Leicestershire, England, was gripped with fear: the body of 15-year-old Lynda Mann had been found next to a quiet country path. But the police had few clues that could identify her killer. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s5e8: Colin Pitchfork, Sky Crime 2020
Over two and a half years later in July 1986 the killer struck again: another 15-year-old girl from the nearby village of Enderby was raped and murdered just a mile away from Lynda. The killer was a local baker named Colin Pitchfork. Had it not been for a combination of science and luck, the man who brought terror to two villages may never have been caught. ibid.
Two teenage girls were attacked and killed in the same area two years apart in a case that changed policing for ever. How I Caught the Killer s1e5: Traces of DNA, Sky Crime 2018
David [rozzer] wanted to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the suspect was their killer. He had heard that Dr Alec Jeffreys at Leicestershire University had developed something called DNA fingerprinting that he was using for paternity testing. ibid.
The man who had asked Kelly to take his blood test for him was local cake decorator Colin Pitchfork. ibid.