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Colin Pitchfork

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British convicted murderer and rapist. First person convicted of murder based on DNA fingerprinting evidence

United KingdomBorn 1960 · age 66
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Colin Pitchfork is an English child-murderer and child-rapist. He was the first person convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling after he murdered two girls in neighbouring Leicestershire villages: Lynda Mann in Narborough in November 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in Enderby in July 1986.

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The Clarendon pub in Leicester, where Ian Kelly admitted, on Saturday 1 August 1987, that he had taken the testThe Clarendon pub in Leicester, where Ian Kelly admitted, on Saturday 1 August 1987, that he had taken the test

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Colin Pitchfork is an English child-murderer and child-rapist. He was the first person convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling after he murdered two girls in neighbouring Leicestershire villages: Lynda Mann in Narborough in November 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in Enderby in July 1986. He was arrested on 19 September 1987 and sentenced to life imprisonment on 22 January 1988 after pleading guilty to both murders. The sentencing judge gave him a 30-year minimum term.

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Born 1960 · age 66
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