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Yesterday marked a sad and embarrassing day for the British judiciary system. Despite finally convicting the real killer of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed, who was murdered in 1975, this also confirmed the terrible injustice towards a poor man who was sent to prison for sixteen years for the crime despite being innocent. Stefan Kiszko was charged with the murder of Lesley 2 months after her body was found, and jailed for life. He spent all of his time in prison protesting his innocence and only in 1992 was his appeal upheld and he was allowed to leave. Sadly, he died shortly after, and this event was marked as the “worst miscarriage of justice of all time.”

The real murderer, who has recently been convicted, is Ronald Castree, who is now 54 years old. After a prolonged investigation and the emergence of compelling new evidence, Castree has been linked to the crime. Castree preyed on his vulnerable victim when she was walking down the road doing an errand for her mother. He not only sexually assaulted her but stabbed her numerous times in the heart and lung before leaving her for dead on the Moors in Yorkshire. What is most chilling is that he then carried on his life as usual as though nothing had happened.

The aunt of Stefan Kiszko, though hurt by what was obviously a harrowing ordeal, is glad that the real murderer has finally been caught and her nephew’s name can be cleared for good. In a statement she said:

“Castree has had the best years of his life already. He killed that girl when he was 21, just a couple of weeks after having a baby himself. Unbelievable. I feel sorry for his wife and children. They have lived with this monster for years without knowing what he has done. They are the innocent ones. Our family knows what it is like to be marked as being associated with a child killer.”

Though everyone will be glad that justice has finally been done, it is ever so tragic that it came so late. There can be no compensation for Kiszko who was humiliated, beaten up in prison, and made to live in a separate cell for his own safety. It is believed that Kiszko’s giant lumbering size and child-like personality led him to be a strong suspect in the case. However, it is revealed that his immaturity was the result of a medical condition and he was completely innocent.

One cannot come to terms with the horrific acts Castree committed which not only destroyed one innocent life but two. Now that he will serve the rest of his life in jail, justice has finally been done.

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