Why couldnt Mr Kiszkos DNA be compared to the DNA left at the scene as soon as the technique was perfected? If this had been done then Mr Kiszko could have been released 10 or more years ago.

Steve Ford, Sligo, Ireland

Has justice been served? He got thirty years which in reality means he will in all probability be free before he is seventy, at which point he will go on to live out his life in peace! Life should have meant life.

kelly, london,

What worth police complaints of 'massive paperwork preventing us from solving crime' ?
Let every amnesiac police officer read the Lesley Moleseed case before whimpering. Paperwork would seem more appropriate than crime solving if we have [and I'm SURE we have] many hidden cases of 'solved crimes' like this.

TOM, LONDON, UK

Makes you realize how distorted reality is in a television series like "Life on Mars". In its rose-tinted take on the 70ies as a more "innocent" time, the racism and viciousness of the time is glossed over, and sexism is just good-natured fun to be chuckled over. Yeah, right.

Student, Oxford, UK

I am happy to see that the killer of this girl has finaly been brought to justice and hope to see simeler cases come to the same finish as this one and bring the pain of all to a end to see the justice system working as it should

Martin Daniel Lowther, Hartlepool,

West Yorkshire police officers on trial ? Not much chance of that, I'm afraid. Recent events (Mr. Meneze's case) prove that police , regardless of how corrupt or incompetent they may be, are still above the law of the country.

a. cambra, birmingham, UK

couldnt agree with you more Disso,

gwhite, rochdale uk,

Once again the police get an innocent man convicted and get away with it.

tommythecommy, coatbridge, scotland

The police must be asked to explain what 'evidence' they used to 'convict' Stefan Kiszko. It must have been skewed in some way - and if so they must have been criminally negligent. No doubt there is an explanation in the appeal court findings. If so can the Press please dig it out and highlight it

john cornford, Arundel,

Stefan Kiszko RIP

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more. Nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the former things are passed away."
Apoc. 21:4

Ben, Reading,

Castree's age changes between page 1and 2. Was he 21 or 22 when he committed the murder?

John Richardson, London, UK

Some now criticise West Yorkshire police but i bet that at the time, no one but his family believed Kiszko was innocent. This is a lesson that we should be wary of drawing conclusions when someone is charged with an offence.

Annie, Cambridge, UK

It should be remembered that Stefan Kiszko was never permitted parole for the simple reason he would not admit to the crime. Because of this silly rule he ended up serving longer for a crime he never committed. Poor guy.

Paul Davis, York, uk

all officers on the original case should be put on trial for the impisonment of stefan. they knew they had the wrong man from day 1. all they wanted was brownie points. and look at the out come now.? at least both stefan and his mum are in a much better place.

graham williams, heywood, lancashire

....I always thought it was the jury that put people in prison.

Mike, London, UK

well it's not really the police though.... they just investigate... how could the court have decided beyond reasonable doubt that that man was guilty?

Kai, Manchester,

The police officers involved in the conviction of Mr Kiszko should be brought to book, they and society in general should hang their heads in shame for the way it treats the vunerable. Strange isn't it how someone like Stefan Kiszko, a vunerable and socially inadequate man was thought to be a pervert, and fitted police ideas of one should be, when the culprit turned out to be a 'normal' married man. Hopefully one day this sort of prejudice along with rubbish like offender profiling (remember Colin Stagg) will be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Dave Jones, Skelmersdale, UK

I see Stefan and his mother dies before they could make the compensation payout for his years in jail.

Should not the money go to his next of kin, or failing that a charity hey may have supported in life.

Trevor Huckstep, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

I just hope that this isn't another miscarriage of justice in the making.

Yes, I realise that Ronald Castree is protesting his innocence in the face of overwhelming forensic evidence.

Errrrr . . . . Hasn't that happened before somewhere?

I have little faith in claims of absolute scientific proof. Far better that we use DNA evidence only as proof of innocence and require other evidence before a guilty finding.

Game of cards anyone?

Nick, Birmingham UK,

I would rather to hear about what was done for the man who was kept locked up for 16 years and called a murderer and rapist. That, for me, is the more important story. Not the jubilation of the poor girl's next of kin - who, I gather from the article, don't even mention the man who suffered hell for 16 years. Yes - the girl suffered hell for a while, the man for 16 years ! Desperate, he died a short while later... What a tragedy. Bring HIS killers to justice !

Jan Cerny, Prague, Czech Republic,

Who will now track down those who,for whatever reasons fitted up and convicted that poor innocent man.He served 16 years, and his poor family must have been tendured hell,and been despised by the commmunity.

Thomas, lancs, england

Why are the police involved not on trial for peverting the course of justice? Having seen an interview with Stefan Kiszko filmed after his release it is clear he was a simple, vunerable man who appeared unlikely to commit this horrific crime and incapable of then covering his tracks. The police involved acted despicably and should pay. Spare a thought for Barry George, currently apealing against his sentence for Jill Dando's murder. Again we have a vunerable man who appears intellctually limited, an outsider, who somehow killed Ms Dando in broad daylight, got away unseen, succesfully disposed of the murder weapon and is linked to the crime by minimal forensic evidence. The police and their leaders really do need to ask themselves what they are doing. No-one cares about convictions for their own sake, and the persection of vunerable citizens when a crime needs to be solved is simply disgusting. Ian Blair will you stand up?

Disso, london,

I quote:
"miscarriages of justice CANNOT HAPPEN when DNA is involved."
This is an extremely dangerous delusion, one to which lay people, police and lawyers are also prone. It is absolutely not the case. For a detailed and entirely accessible explanation you can do no better than read 'Reckoning with Risk' by Gerd Gigerenzer. At a simple level ask yourself how many medical (micro-biological) tests you've heard of that are 100 per cent correct, i.e. no false positives, no false negatives.
Dr P Allen

P Allen, Canterbury, UK

It just shows how corrupt police officers can fit people up when they want to. Unfortunately they pretty much always get away with it because the Courts side with them no matter what.

Sergei, London, UK

Thank God for scientific advances.It just goes to prove there is no such thing as a perfect crime. Justice has finally been served>

Jane Phipps, Trikala, Greece

For those that believe there can be no miscarriages of justice when DNA is involved, and that consequently the death penalty should be brought back - such as Shaun, below - a question:

Might not a police force prepared to extract a confession of guilt from an innocent man also be prepared to plant DNA evidence?

Paul, Munich, Germany

Entering a police station in the 1970's was an unlucky experience for many, ask Judith Ward, the Birmingham 6, Guilford 4 and the Brigdewater 4 amongst others and now the poor man Stefan Kiszko. In a modern world the 3 youths that lied he had exposed himself can best be described as a modern day form of happy slapping or simple bullying but both are despicable acts, in today’s society this type of behaviour is more prevalent now than it was back then. Good Police work helped today’s verdict but it was bad Police work that got us to this point and the good Police work didn’t finish off two people like the bad Police work managed to do. It is that in uncertain times and greater threats to our life that the Police are given more power to detain people and keep them for longer thus increasing the chances of somebody cracking up. Don’t get me wrong I’m all for catching the bad guys but let’s hope when it happens they catch the bad guys and not just people who don’t fit the bill and are easy to pin the crime on and satisfy the over eager press. We have to learn our lessons with miscarriages of justice, I sincerely hope we are starting to understand this fundamental principle. It’s no coincidence that the major miscarriages of justice in this country in the 1970’s coincided with the increase in Police powers to detain people for longer, nobody wants another 7/7 but at the same time nobody wants another miscarriage of justice.

Nigel Talboys, Geneva, Switzerland

I heard a policeman on Radio Scotland today-when asked why Stefan Kiszco had been wrongly imprisoned referred to him as 'A mummys boy, misshapen (??) and spoke in generally abusive terms about this poor man.
So thats ok then we can bang him up because he was 'strange' -The Police never learn do they.
Even now they try to justify it.

Phil Hannah, Perth, Scotland

apart from the incompetence of the police, anybody know the name of the psychiatrist who stated that Stefan Kiszko had 'delusions of innocence' ?

E.Parker, Liverpool,

There's no doubt that Kiszko was picked on because of his physical appearance and his mental slowness. It just goes to show how society is prejudiced against such people.

Andy, Lichfield, United Kingdom

I sincerely hope the Molseed and Kiszko families may now resume, as best they can, the rest of their lives; this must have been an extremely traumatic and a neverendingly, unbearable period of 30 odd years of their lives.

I hope crastree gets what is surely and deservedly coming to him over the next 30 years

Michael, Birmingham, UK

the fact that we now have DNA evidence is a good reason to bring back the death penalty. miscarriages of justice CANNOT HAPPEN when DNA is involved. i quote from the article above "DNA evidence that established there was a billion to one chance that Castree was not the killer".

shaun, newcastle, uk

This man has inflicted so much misery and suffering and for what? I was going to say thank God for DNA evidence-but what good has he been in all this. I'd rather thank the scientists who have made this possible and diminished the chances of another appalling miscarriage of justice such as befell Mr Kiszko and his family. All those who still support the death penalty might want to consider how much worse it could have been.

Alan J, London, UK

This case is a good reason to abandon (in countries where they have) or never consider 'death sentence' for certain crimes. Just imagine if Stefan Kiszko had been put to death?

Mohammed, London, UK

What an utter, utter tragedy this is. It's just completely awful all round.

Chris Phipps, Worthing,

Poor little Lesley. In this gross miscarriage of justice, tragedy has been piled upon tragedy. Two families have been left mourning their innocent dead. Advocates of the death penalty should contemplate the case of Stefan Kiszko, and rue their own vengefulness.

Jane, Helston, Cornwall

Not just the police but Waddington also assisted considerably in perverting the course of justice. Waddington's reward was a further step up in his career. the police who badly mistreated a confused vulnerable innocent man have probably retired with the inflation proofed pensions, the bastards.
West Yorkshire Police are probably now going to tell us they deserve congragulating for solving a difficult case. Whatever they are paying senior police officers, its too much.

Riley, Kyiv, Ukraine

yorkshire police should be put on trial (officers)for jailing stefan. they knew they had imprisoned the wrong man. all they wanted was a conviction.absolute shambles.and now look.? both him and his mother have died.the officers on the original case should get life .

graham williams, heywood, lancashire

As a born and bred Rochdalian, I was deeply shocked at the miscarraige of justice for Mr Kiszko and his family. A mothers love is like no other and Mrs Charlotte Kiszko fought to the very end to clear her son, finally justice prevailed. I cannot imagine being away from loved ones for 16 years and to go through what he did was a disgrace.

I hope this conviction has finally ended the journey for all involved and that Castree gets what he deserves in prison.

Also West Yorkshire police hang your heads in shame.

Abdul, Rochdale, UK

Poor, poor Stefan Kiszko and his family.

David Leslie, Perth, Scotland

Ruined lives all round, so sad

Phill Barlow, The Wirral, England