‘Diaries found inside lock-up’

LEEDS CROWN Court heard new evidence came to light recently when police discovered diaries and letters written by Peter Pickering when they searched a lock-up garage in Sheffield.

Michelle Colbourne, prosecuting, said Pickering kept diaries and wrote regular notes in exercise books.

She said police found extracts which support the case that Pickering wanted to commit violent sexual offences against young girls.

One entry in a book, dated October 27, 1970, read: “Well we’ll wait till 1972 gets here. Sex is predominant in my mind – eclipsing all else. Maybe I will be a sex manic proper. Rape, torture, kill.”