cisco

[hobsonbear]

i have searched the web and found nothing.  in the 60s a guy whose surname was cisco (i think) was apparently wrongfully convicted of rape and murder after he was found to be retarded and the police made him sign a confession.  the man that got him freed was called waddington and he (waddington) later went on to become home secretary under margaret thatcher.  can anyone provide info on this or a website that i can look at?

h

[lodekka]

It's a case that's always saddened me.

Stefan Kizsko, a tax clerk from Rochdale was wrongfully imprisoned in 1975 for the murder of Lesley Molseed from the same town. He was released in 1992 following an appeal but died a year later still only in his late thirties. His mother, who'd stood by him throughout campaigning for justice died a couple of years later.

David Waddington was QC for the defence at Stefan Kizsko's trial.

Lesley Molseed's murderer has never been traced.

[corganiser]

try this:

http://innocent.org.uk/cases/stefankiszko/

[lodekka]

Good grief, I'd forgotten that Stefan's mother only survived him by six months. How cruel must it have been for her to lose her son twice? I don't latch on to causes easily, but this one really had ill-luck all the way through it, to put it mildly. Very, very sad.