Police are continuing to hold a man over the brutal murder of a schoolgirl who disappeared while running an errand more than 30 years ago.
Officers arrested the 53-year-old from Oldham, Greater Manchester, over the unsolved murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed on Sunday.
Around noon on Sunday October 5, 1975 Lesley left her home in Delamere Road, Rochdale, on an errand for her mother to buy a loaf of bread and an air freshener from a local shop.
Three days later her body was discovered on open moorland above the A672 Oldham to Halifax Road in Ripponden, West Yorkshire. She had been stabbed 12 times and sexually assaulted.
Following a major investigation, in which nearly 5,000 statements were taken and more than 12,000 people spoken to within the first three months, 26-year-old Stefan Kiszko, a tax clerk from Rochdale, was convicted of her murder.
But Mr Kiszko was the subject of an infamous miscarriage of justice. He spent 16 years in prison before finally being released from prison following an appeal but died shortly afterwards.
The investigation was reopened and featured on the BBC's Crimewatch programme in February 2003 after officers made a breakthrough in the form of a DNA profile which police believe was left at the scene of the crime by Lesley's killer. More than 250 calls were received as a result of the programme.
At the time West Yorkshire Police vowed to keep the murder investigation open until the youngster's killer was found.
West Yorkshire Police announced on Sunday: "In connection with the murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed, whose body was found in Ripponden in October 1975, police have today arrested a 53-year-old man from Oldham in connection with her death.
"He is currently being questioned by police."
