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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.
Decision on Pitchfork, who raped and strangled to death two 15-year-olds in the 1980s, now sent back to Parole Board Child murderer Colin Pitchfork’s ‘irrational’ prison release blocked by judge
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Pitchfork was released in September after being jailed in 1987 for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in the 1980s. Child killer Colin Pitchfork back in prison after breaching licence conditions
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Colin Pitchfork was identified and convicted of their murders after samples taken from him matched semen samples taken from the two dead girls. [8] This turned out to be a specifically important identification; British authorities believe that without it an innocent man would have inevitably been convicted.
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.
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 ...