Her step-father also joined the search but by 3:00 p.m., with no sign of her, and no evidence that she had arrived at the shops nor been encountered since, they contacted Rochdale Police.Ī search around the town and the adjacent M62 area was immediately begun. When Lesley failed to return home, her concerned mother sent her siblings out to look for her. Wearing a blue raincoat, carrying a blue canvas bag and £1 in cash, she was last seen by witnesses in Stiups Lane – a pedestrian alleyway leading towards the shop. The children had a rota for chores and for Lesley, such an errand would have been routine (as it was for most school-age children from urban/ council estate households in that era).
On the early afternoon of Sunday 5 October 1975, Lesley was sent by her mother to a local shop on nearby Ansdell Road to buy bread and air-freshener. Despite open-heart surgery at age three she was undersized and frail, and with a reduced mental level for her age. Known as 'Lel' to her family (mother April, step-father Danny, a brother, and two sisters), she was born with a congenital condition that included cardiac complications. She lived at 11 Delamere Road, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, part of the Turf Hill Estate. Molseed (14 August 1964 – 5 October 1975), was born Lesley Susan Anderson. However, in 2006, a DNA match led to the arrest of Ronald Castree for Molseed's murder he was convicted the following year and sentenced to life in prison. His ordeal was described by one British MP as "the worst miscarriage of justice of all time." Evidence that Kiszko could not have committed the crime was suppressed by three members of the investigation team, who were initially arrested in 1993 before charges were dropped.
His mental and physical health had deteriorated in prison and he died 22 months after his release in February 1992 – before he could collect the money owed to him for his wrongful conviction. Stefan Kiszko ( / ˈ k iː ʃ k oʊ/ KEESH-koh), an intellectually-disabled young man who lived near Molseed in Greater Manchester, was wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering her, and served 16 years in prison before his conviction was overturned. Lesley Molseed, an 11-year-old schoolgirl, was abducted and murdered on 5 October 1975 in West Yorkshire, England. Near Rishworth Moor in West Yorkshire, England