IS there's a more unpleasant man on God's Earth than Ronald Castree ?
He killed and sexually assaulted Lesley Molseed then stood by as Stefan Kisko was fitted up for it by the police.
No doubt gentle, innocent Stefan made lots of nice friends during his 16 years inside as a convicted paedophile.
And when he was released - because the cops were forced to admit he was infertile and could not have left the DNA 'evidence' at the site - poor Stefan died after two years of freedom. You couldn't say it was of a broken heart but Stefan was certainly a broken man.
And Castree's responsible. He didn't even have the guts to own up once he was faced with million to one DNA evidence. That prolonged the pain for LEsley's family.
Police are delving further into his past to see if he's behind other crimes.
Castree is almost an argument for capital punishment - almost but not quite. If we still had the noose, poor Stefan would have dangled for a crime he couldn't have committed.
What this sorry sad sickening story does show is that we need a national DNA database. And it's not an infiringement on civil liberties. If you haven't done anything, you have nothing to hide.
And it might lead to a few more families like the Molseeds being granted a belated sense of justice.
