Mother faces child murder accused

A MOTHER came face to face in court yesterday with the man accused of murdering her 11-year-old daughter in a frenzied sex attack more than 30 years ago.

Mother-of-four April Garrett told a jury of her “enchanting” girl Lesley Molseed as the man on trial for the youngster’s abduction and murder watched from the dock.

Ronald Castree, 54, is accused of snatching the youngster from a street near her home in Rochdale as she ran an errand for her mother, Bradford Crown Court heard.