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00:00As the search continues, police are warning villagers here to keep their children out of
00:08these isolated areas. Senior officers now face the very real possibility that the killer will
00:13strike again. Linda had been raped and strangled to death and left near some woods by the Black
00:26Padfoot path. Then three years after Linda's death, the villagers received more devastating
00:33news. Dawn Ashworth had been grabbed, raped and strangled. There was a killer in their
00:44midst circulating within their community. The police did have one strong suspect. But
00:54the staggering results were that he killed neither girl. That left us with a huge problem.
01:02Somewhere in the community, there was a serial killer.
01:13In the woods, police now believe there's a nude male streaker. And this guy was just dropping
01:18his trousers. They work usually in the evenings or in the night time. In the parks, in the
01:24streets. Many of today's measures are aimed at children, especially teenage girls. If
01:29you think you're being followed, don't try and shake your pursuer off. Ask for help.
01:47Linda Mann's body was found just after seven this morning. She was attacked just half a mile
01:52from her home. Police believe Dawn's killer is probably the same man who strangled Leicestershire
02:03schoolgirl Linda Mann. What we all feared being realised. Collapsing, screaming, weeping.
02:09The killer had the same enzyme and blood group. The clock was ticking. When would this man
02:23kill again? We've got to find the fiend really that did this. Stop it from happening again.
02:35The authorities carried out the world's first mass DNA screening. More than 5,000 men were
02:40tested. The technique has been hailed as the greatest breakthrough this century in the fight
02:45against crime. 5,000 males, one of whom could be the perpetrator. All we had to do was match
02:54the DNA and catch the killer. I just burst into tears. I couldn't believe it. That's when
03:05we first knew that there was real evil in the world.
03:35the killer. After three years, the community and particularly the police were desperate, really
03:57desperate to find the killer of Linda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.
04:04I realised that I've got to do something different. The DNA of both bodies was identical. So that
04:21meant that one man was responsible for both murders. I had got to get a blood sample from every
04:32male person in the area and have it tested for DNA.
04:47My name is David Warris. At the time of these murders, I was head of biology for research at the Home Office
04:56Central Research Establishment for the Forensic Science Service. Forensic science is a very challenging field.
05:05The patterns in this track and this track are in fact identical. The chances of that happening, those two patterns
05:14agreeing by chance, we calculated to be of the order of one in many millions.
05:19They were absolutely certain that the murderer rapist had come from one of these three villages. One, they were both in the same place virtually. Two, they were in an area where it was only known really to local people. They felt they'd investigated the case absolutely thoroughly.
05:47After much discussion, we agreed as a team and with David Baker that we would carry out this mass screen. The first mass screen ever.
06:06Within those villages, there are around about 5,000 males, one of whom could be the perpetrator.
06:25The rest of the community were aghast because anybody who was aged between 16 and 34 received a letter and was invited to go for a DNA test. None of the men who went for the test had experienced anything like this before.
06:41The authorities carried out the world's first mass DNA screening. More than 5,000 men were tested.
06:48Once there, they would be met by volunteers who would actually take a sample of blood from them. So this was a massive operation.
06:57Some people weren't very keen on that idea. Some people weren't very keen on that idea. But I was determined that that was going to happen.
07:04And I said, no other way where it could be done. Other than by DNA.
07:10The idea of a mass screening filled me with trepidation because I knew that this was not going to be a short term thing. This was going to take a long time.
07:23The actual feeling amongst the villagers was that we must get this individual and if he's among us, we must get him.
07:34We must get him.
07:47Men were queuing up and almost falling over themselves to be seen to be giving a sample.
07:54They wanted their neighbours and their friends to know that they'd given the test and that they were safe in their own community.
08:02It's very important. It's helping their inquiry eliminate people basically. And it's just helping things along.
08:11David Baker had said that actually most of the pressure will come from the wives.
08:18And he was absolutely right. They wanted their man to be proven innocent.
08:25It was quite an eerie silence standing in the queue waiting to go and have your test.
08:32Anybody who didn't come forward straight away would automatically become suspicious.
08:38By using the blood grouping tests, we were able to eliminate around about 4,000 of the 5,000 individuals that were tested.
08:52The problem, of course, that it was a horrible technique.
08:59It took two weeks to get a result. It was terribly complicated.
09:05The incident room at Enderby is now working overtime processing the results. Each blue form is a negative test result.
09:12We had analysed the majority of the samples, but we didn't find any matches whatsoever.
09:25As time went on, the pressure did ramp up.
09:44The police were desperately hoping that this would be the answer.
09:51There was a worry that he might just disappear under the parapet, move away, emigrate.
09:57It would be great.
09:58We reviewed all of our autoradiographs over and over again to make sure we hadn't actually missed anything.
10:07When it dragged on and dragged on, we were waiting for a breakthrough.
10:16It was fairly obvious to me that if we don't catch him, he's going to come again.
10:37I think the police thought that somewhere in the system they did have the killer.
10:45It didn't quite pan out that way.
10:50There was a huge breakthrough.
10:55The police had missed a major clue and they'd been conned.
11:15There was more frustration when the wave of tests took months and months and then didn't find the killer.
11:43I think the police always had a sense of confidence that the test was good, but that they needed other policing methods, maybe expanding the area.
12:02But certainly looking into the possibility that the killer had in some way avoided the test itself.
12:14It was clear that genetic fingerprinting wouldn't actually solve the crime alone.
12:19And one of the things that police needed was the help of the public.
12:34There was a major breakthrough in the case.
12:37And it all stemmed from a conversation in a pub between workers from a bakery.
12:50On one particular day at the Clarendon pub of Leicester, a group of colleagues from a local bakery were having a drink, playing darts and socialising.
13:03There was a woman who said that one of their colleagues was a bit too touchy-feely for her liking, and that he'd also had a number of affairs.
13:16But this man was called Colin Pitchfork.
13:21One of the men present said, well that's interesting because he asked me to go and take his DNA test.
13:29At which point, another man called Ian Kelly said, well I did go and take his DNA test.
13:40Ian Kelly worked at the same bakery as Colin Pitchfork, and Colin Pitchfork persuaded him to take the test for him.
13:51Despite the noise around them, for those colleagues from the bakery, the room fell silent.
14:03So that group of colleagues from the bakery knew that Colin Pitchfork hadn't been for the blood test at all.
14:14After the pub conversation, it played on the lady's mind for some time, until she actually reported it to the police.
14:33A woman approached a policeman who she knew and said that a fellow colleague said that he'd been asked by Colin Pitchfork
14:42to take a test for him, and we had a breakthrough.
15:08Who was this Colin Pitchfork?
15:11He came from a typical family.
15:14It was a happy childhood.
15:17He did his Duke of Edinburgh award, working at a Bernardo's home.
15:24And he had lots of interests.
15:28He was studious, he was musical, he was artistic.
15:38Well, he was a local man.
15:42He worked at the bakery, but he also had a sideline in producing celebration cakes, which were particularly good.
15:53Many people in the villages had his card.
15:57Colin Pitchfork was in fact the baker that the police had spoken to during the initial door-to-door inquiries after Linda Mann's murder.
16:15Because he had some previous convictions for indecent exposure.
16:24His alibi for that evening was that he'd taken his wife early evening, around seven o'clock, to a class, and then picked her up later at around nine o'clock.
16:34And for the rest of the evening, he was at home with his small baby son.
16:39He gave them an alibi, which was backed up by his wife, that he was babysitting at the time of the first killing.
16:52It was beyond imagination that a man would take a child with him when he raped and murdered a young girl and then disposed of her body.
17:07He used his car a lot and suffered a lot.
17:13He was a bit of a bully.
17:16We checked the database and found that he'd given a blood test.
17:23But it had been negative.
17:29I set up an early morning rain for Pitchfork.
17:48When the police knocked on the front door of Colin Pitchfork, they immediately arrested him.
17:59At that point, Colin Pitchfork asked if he could have a moment alone with his wife.
18:06Reluctantly, the police said yes.
18:13He told them that he wanted to speak to his wife because he might not be at home for quite some time.
18:18His wife said to him, did you do it? Did you do it? He said yes.
18:33She flew into a rage. Attacked him.
18:39So much so that the police officer in the room had to pull her off.
18:46Her husband, the father of her two boys, was in fact the killer of two local girls.
18:53In front of her, he followed Mrs. Fox Burness.
19:08It must have been awful for his wife realising that she was married to a double child killer.
19:16I don't quite know how you'd ever come to terms with that.
19:23The man was arrested today at his home on this private estate in the village of Little Thorpe.
19:30The police believed they now had their double killer, Colin Pitchfork.
19:38A 28-year-old baker, married with two children.
19:44But did the police really have the right man?
19:47The police took Colin Pitchfork to the station and had to make sure they had a rock-solid case this time.
20:16After the embarrassment of a possible wrongful conviction with Buckland.
20:23I'm sure they were thinking, can we have total confidence that this new technique that Alec Jeffries has come up with will conclusively prove this is the man?
20:37Colin Pitchfork's blood was tested and it came back. Perfect match.
20:43The game was up. The science was too compelling. They got their man.
20:50So trapped by technology, Colin Pitchfork was arrested.
20:55The technique has been hailed as the greatest breakthrough this century in the fight against crime.
21:02I was hugely relieved that they had the right person. Had they not found and convicted the right person, they would have been another victim. I'm absolutely sure about that.
21:17It took away our happiness. We were just finding ourselves. We were growing up. We were happy. And he took it away from everybody.
21:30At this point, Colin Pitchfork had to confess.
21:42When Colin Pitchfork attacked and murdered Linda Mann, he dropped his wife off. He was to pick her up at nine o'clock.
22:01He spotted Linda and saw his opportunity to leave his car on the side of the road with his baby son in a carry cot on the back seat.
22:20He picked up a pace to follow her so that he could overtake her and then expose himself to her.
22:36He'd attacked her. He dragged her off the path. He'd raped her and sexually assaulted her and then murdered her by strangling her with her own scarf.
22:50All while this was happening, his small boy, his son, was strapped into a car seat, waiting for his dad to return.
23:03During the course of this attack, he realised that she'd seen him, she'd seen his wedding ring and he was fearful that she might recognise him.
23:17And that's why he said he had to kill her.
23:20Police believed none of this. They believed it was part of his compulsion, the thrill of the attack, the thrill of the murder itself, perhaps.
23:32In many ways, he had the perfect alibi.
23:39Nobody could believe any man could do that and take his son with him.
23:50His wife was deceived and she anticipated to be there on the talking, watching the television.
24:07The escalation was evident with the details of Dawn Ashworth's attack.
24:18Pitchfuck told the police he'd spotted Dawn when he was passing on his motorbike. He stopped and followed her.
24:27He then jogged past her to get in front of her and then stopped. As she then approached, he indecently exposed himself to her.
24:52She'd been dragged from £10 lane, brutally attacked, receiving a number of injuries, raped, strangled.
25:09He said he had to murder her because she would recognise him.
25:14And then he'd be done for both murders.
25:18He almost laid part of the blame at Dawn's feet.
25:22And at the end of the attack, he walked back to his motorbike, put on his helmet and went home to bake a cake.
25:32Ian Kelly was questioned.
25:50He revealed that he'd actually taken the DNA fingerprinting blood test for Colin Pitchfuck.
26:01Ian Kelly wasn't very happy to begin with and needed some persuading and he was offered £200 to take the test.
26:11Colin Pitchfuck had to make sure that Ian Kelly went and took that blood test.
26:17So, he went with him, literally marching him to the test centre and waiting outside.
26:26I think we'd rather bullied him into it and that's why he turned up and did it.
26:35Every man had to take a photographic ID with them, driving licence, passport or similar.
26:43And that was a prerequisite and when you arrived, that was checked before you actually had the test.
26:50He took Ian Kelly to have a passport photograph taken.
26:59With meticulous planning and artistic technique, he took his own photograph and put Ian Kelly's over the top.
27:11They were scrutinised quite heavily, so if it was an obvious fake,
27:18the people at the test centres would have noticed it.
27:22But he also took a child's mathematics compass and scratched his arm,
27:27so everybody he knew was in no doubt that he'd taken the test.
27:31That was the extent of his artistic talents and his manipulation.
27:37It was evident to the police during the questioning with Colin Pitchfuck
27:45that this sexual behaviour, this had gone on for many, many years.
27:52This was just the tip of the iceberg and didn't by any way represent the full extent of what he'd been up to.
28:00The first attack that he was convicted of was when he was 17 years old.
28:29He was convicted of indecent exposure with a teenage girl and fined 30 pounds.
28:36Three years later, when he was 20 years old, he was convicted of indecent exposure again,
28:43this time with two teenage girls.
28:45And he went for psychological treatment at the Carlton Hayes Hospital.
28:51But he'd been exposing himself even younger than that.
28:56He admitted to more than a thousand cases of indecent exposure.
29:00He was almost boasting.
29:03Pitchfork's earlier rehabilitation for indecent exposure clearly hadn't worked.
29:10It was escalating behaviour.
29:20In 1979, a 16-year-old girl was walking home from school when she was attacked by Pitchfork.
29:28He undid her clothing and sexually assaulted her.
29:31Then in 1985, in between the murder of Linda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, Pitchfork struck again.
29:41Another 16-year-old girl walking on a late October evening.
29:46Again, he approached her from behind with a screwdriver and dragged her behind some lock-up garages.
29:54And then with a knife at her throat, he orally raped her and threatened that if she ever said anything, he would track her down.
30:04There was tight security as a crowd gathered outside Leicester Magistrates Court.
30:16The man was hurriedly driven past Pressman in an unmarked saloon car.
30:21In my view, there are some crimes that are just so horrendous
30:27that they offend the communities in which they took place,
30:32that anything other than a whole life sentence is inappropriate.
30:39The families were waiting in the courtroom,
30:42and I remember Barbara Ashworth saying to me
30:45she was struck by seeing the killer for the first time,
30:50looking him in the eyes and seeing no remorse or emotion whatsoever.
30:57But what they were really concerned about
31:00was how long would the sentence be?
31:03Colin Pitchfork from Little Fork near Leicester was brought to Leicester Magistrates Court in a police van with blacked-out windows.
31:24It was a very tense atmosphere because of the gravity of the case.
31:30The families were in court, the world's press were there.
31:33Inside court, the public gallery was packed mainly with women
31:37who came to see the man charged with murdering Leicestershire schoolgirls Linda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.
31:43To actually see him was a huge relief just for the families, the closure then.
31:55It was so relief that they got him.
31:58But his eyes.
32:01I just remember his eyes.
32:04Colin Pitchfork had dark, dead-looking eyes.
32:10He showed no real emotion or real interest.
32:15He kept a blank expression virtually throughout.
32:20I do remember my sister attending.
32:24There's a downside to knowing all of that detail because you can contaminate your own mind.
32:33You can't unknow something that you've come to know.
32:37It was pretty heartbreaking to hear all the details while the victim's parents were in court.
32:49They were spared some of the graphic details that might have been heard had he pleaded not guilty and gone to trial.
32:58He pleaded guilty to two murders and rapes as well as two unrelated sexual assaults.
33:07He also admitted conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in relation to doctoring his passport.
33:15Pitchfork was a compulsive flasher.
33:18He'd intended to expose himself to Linda and later Dawn but then decided on rape.
33:23The judge, Mr Justice, often said the murders were particularly sadistic.
33:27Pitchfork was diagnosed with a psychopathic personality disorder accompanied by serious psycho-sexual pathology.
33:37He's a psychopath.
33:39He's scheming all the time.
33:43He should go from being normal, like you and I,
33:49and then the next minute he's hunting down girls.
33:54He was living a double life.
33:59Masquerading as the respectable family man.
34:06While secretly indulging his deviant sexual fantasies.
34:15He was merciless in his treatment of these young girls.
34:21He showed them no regard whatsoever.
34:25So, in January 1988,
34:37Pitchfork was sentenced to life imprisonment for the two murders,
34:42ten years for raping the victims,
34:45and also three years for each count of sexual assault,
34:48with three years for perverting the course of justice.
34:51All were concurrent.
34:53So, effectively, he was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years.
34:58Colin Pitchfork safely behind bars tonight.
35:03Women jeered and chanted abuse as he was driven away.
35:07The Lord Chief Justice said,
35:09From the point of view of the safety of the public,
35:12I doubt if he should ever be released.
35:16The double child killer, Colin Pitchfork,
35:31who raped and murdered two 15-year-old girls,
35:34walked free from jail today.
35:36He will be supervised for life,
35:39and his licence says that if he breaches any of the conditions,
35:43he will be returned straight to prison.
35:50I heard that he was going to be released,
35:52and I just burst into tears.
35:55I couldn't believe it.
35:57Astounded.
35:59We never thought that would happen in our lifetimes.
36:02It was claimed that Pitchfork was rehabilitated,
36:07and he had made good progress.
36:12One of the arguments was that he was a reformed character.
36:18When he was released, I felt a sense of injustice.
36:26It's an affront to the notion of justice
36:29to release people who've committed such horrendous offences
36:36against children.
36:39He has been away from all that temptation all those years
36:42that I just think is absolutely ridiculous
36:45to put the public at risk.
36:50I think it's wrong, very wrong.
36:52I don't think they realise, you know,
36:56what it's like to be a woman on your own
36:58going somewhere at night.
37:02He was feared.
37:05By many people still.
37:09And they feared particularly
37:11what he was capable of doing
37:13if he had the opportunity again.
37:16But it wasn't long before he was back in prison.
37:23He broke one of the major licence conditions.
37:30He approached a female in the probation car park.
37:33I don't think you can accurately predict human behaviour
37:43without conducting basically an experiment
37:46on an unwitting community.
37:51There's no parole opportunity for Dawn or Linda.
37:56There's no opportunity for them to pick their lives up again.
38:00Times have definitely changed in terms of attitude
38:15to things like indecent exposure,
38:17which is, of course, the first step
38:20towards these other major crimes.
38:22You know, many people who start with indecent exposure,
38:26like Colin Pitchfork,
38:27it's proven go on to commit more serious crimes later on.
38:31And back in the 70s and 80s,
38:34it wasn't taken as seriously as it is now.
38:36Flashers were seen as comedy characters,
38:39which can't have helped in terms of the public
38:43taking it seriously and reporting it.
38:46So those crimes do still exist,
38:49but they also manifest themselves in totally different ways.
38:53The South End Crown Court made legal history today
38:57by jailing the first person convicted under the new law
39:01of cyber-flashing.
39:03The 39-year-old had sent indecent images of himself
39:07to a 15-year-old girl and another woman.
39:10With the use of technology in particular,
39:13we've all got mobile phones,
39:14and offenders have mobile phones.
39:17And they perhaps might even think they've got more
39:20of a chance of getting away with indecent exposure now
39:23because they don't have to be anywhere near
39:26the person they're exposing themselves to.
39:29And indecent exposure using mobile phones and online
39:34is something that could become more of a problem in the future.
39:38I'm eternally grateful to the ingenuity of Sir Act Jefferies,
39:57who came up with DNA fingerprinting.
39:59This case was of historic importance
40:06because it exhilarated an innocent individual.
40:10Then it found the perpetrator,
40:13and the mass screening laid the foundations
40:16of the National DNA Database,
40:19which is not only in the UK but is now worldwide.
40:24I didn't realise I was watching history in the making
40:28and that it would have a worldwide impact.
40:34We were the first to do the DNA,
40:38and the significance of that is not lost on me.
40:47It's staggering to think that more than 50 million cases
40:51globally have now been resolved using DNA fingerprinting.
40:59That's beyond belief, isn't it?
41:13It reverberates down through the years.
41:16Almost unexpectedly, in a way.
41:21You know, you hear something on the news,
41:26something about a parole decision or an appeal.
41:29You'd think by now I'd be inured to it, in a way.
41:35But I still find myself catching my breath.
41:40My father, Dawn's grandfather, was dead within two years.
41:50Grief, it just ate away at him.
41:55Looking back, it makes me feel quite emotional,
42:06because I can see the scene of crime again in detail.
42:18I think about now, my life, and what Dawn could have had.
42:33She could have been married with children, you know,
42:36and I think it's so sad that she's missed out.
42:39I think she would have brought a lot, a lot of happiness to people.
42:46Linda's there all the time.
42:48When situations come out, happy things, happy events that she couldn't go to,
42:56he took the innocence out of all of our childhoods.
43:00And that's something that's there forever,
43:03because that's when we first knew that there was real evil in the world.
43:06People need to remember the girls.
43:22For the two families, it's almost like their lives ended
43:27on the same day that their daughters' lives ended.
43:30It devastated their families, marriages broke up,
43:35and the siblings as well, their lives were affected.
43:39It's the impact that it's had on other people
43:42that I think really hits you as much as, you know, the victims themselves.
43:51I'm appalled still at the level of violence
43:54that is perpetrated in society against women and girls by men.
44:00I want to be associated with a masculinity I can be proud of,
44:05not one I'm embarrassed by.
44:11I don't want another victim and that family of that victim
44:16to experience what we've experienced.
44:19I want another victim to experience what we've experienced.
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