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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.
Code of a Killer is a three-part [1] British police drama television series which tells the true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its introductory use by Detective David Baker in catching the double murderer Colin Pitchfork.
The following year Colin Pitchfork was identified as the perpetrator of the same murder, in addition to another, using the same techniques that had cleared Buckland. [ 97 ] In 1987, genetic fingerprinting was used in a US criminal court for the first time in the trial of a man accused of unlawful intercourse with a mentally disabled 14-year-old ...
Pitchfork was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years in 1988 for murdering and raping Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth. Double child killer Colin Pitchfork to stay in prison, Parole Board ...
Pitchfork was jailed for life in 1988 after raping and strangling two 15-year-olds, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986 Double child killer Colin Pitchfork can be ...
Pitchfork became the first man convicted of murder on the basis of DNA evidence and was jailed for life in 1988. Justice Secretary to intervene in decision to free child killer Colin Pitchfork ...
Pitchfork successfully challenged the Parole Board’s decision to keep him behind bars and his case will now be reviewed again. Double child killer Colin Pitchfork to face fresh parole hearing ...
In 1992, while in jail, Bloodsworth read an account of how DNA testing had led to the conviction, in England, of Colin Pitchfork in the killings of Dawn Ashworth and Lynda Mann. This resulted in the use of DNA to gain the exoneration of an earlier suspect in the case, who had falsely confessed to Ashworth's murder.