DNA break in murder committed n 1975

POLICE investigating the murder of an 11-year-old girl nearly 28 years ago yesterday revealed they had made a DNA breakthrough in the case.

Rochdale schoolgirl Lesley Molseed was stabbed 12 times and sexually assaulted after leaving her Greater Manchester home on Sunday, October 5, 1975, on a shopping errand for her mother.

Three days later, her body was discovered on open moorland above the A672 Oldham to Halifax Road in Ripponden, West Yorkshire.