Lawman who cleared Stefan says ‘killer’s act will never be forgotten’
THE solicitor who cleared an innocent man in one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history believes evil paedophile Ronald Castree’s actions will never be forgotten.
Campbell Malone spent most of the 1980s working to have Stefan Kiszko released from prison after he was jailed on Christmas Eve 1975 for killing 11-year-old Lesley Molseed.
Mr Kiszko spent 16 years of his life behind bars after he confessed to police under duress.
He was eventually cleared in 1992 when it emerged that sperm samples taken from Lesley’s clothes could not have been his as he was infertile.
But murderer Castree carried on with his life undetected for more than 30 years until he was arrested in 2006 after forensic officers made a billion-to-one DNA match. Now a newspaper story about his conviction has been removed from Google under the controversial ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling.
The Daily Mail article about Castree’s November 2007 conviction is the latest to be taken down following the EU ruling in May, which gave individuals the right to ask for ‘inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive for the purposes of data processing’ articles removed.
Mr Malone said: “My understanding of the ECHR ruling is that a person affected by an article can apply to have it removed from Google if it is irrelevant, inaccurate or in other ways inadequate.
“I am not aware of the contents of the Daily Mail article or the basis on which it may have been hidden and I can well understand how distressing this story must be for Lesley’s family.
“The reality is, however, that Ronald Castree will never succeed in any attempt to have his actions ‘forgotten’.
“His murder of Lesley Molseed, his silence at the arrest, prosecution and conviction of Stefan Kiszko and his devastation of two innocent families has been comprehensively documented.
“There is a mass of material on the internet about him and by his actions Castree may have succeeded in obscuring one article but only at the price of replacing it with many more.”
It is not known who asked for the article to be removed.