Never look to the law for justice or to the police for protection.
This case had it all, forced confession, bent coppers, bent forensic evidence , withholding evidence and knowingly convicting an innocent man who went on to spend sixteen years in jail.
If there were one iota of justice in this world both DCI Richard (Dick) Holland, and forensic scientist Doctor Ronald Outteridge would have taken Kiszko's place in the slammer, but there ain't and they didn't.
As part of his condition Stefan Kiszko would have been physically incapable of the sex crime of which he was convicted. Something which was never disclosed to his defence...
The brutal killing outraged local people. In December 1975, detectives arrested and charged Stefan Kiszko, a tax clerk from Rochdale who had never been in trouble with the law. After two days of questioning he signed a confession. He later complained that the confession had been bullied out of him but was convicted of murder and jailed for life.
Fourteen years later his lawyer urged the Home Office to reopen the case, which was then referred back to West Yorkshire police. New inquiries showed that semen found on Lesley's body contained heads of sperm. Mr Kiszko, however, was infertile.
British police have a dishonourable history of pinning murders on the ‘local nutter’,
A blogger named Postman Patel has more on the case and the bent bastards that stitched Kiszko up.
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