THE detective who put sex-obsessed killer Colin Pitchfork behind bars has sadly died.
The retired Detective Chief Superintendent David Baker passed away last week aged 90.
David was the first to successfully track down a criminal using DNA techniques developed at the University of Leicester.
Leicestershire Police’s chief constable, David Sandall, said: “His legacy has and will continue for generations of police officers to come.”
Thanks to David’s hard work, Pitchfork was caged for life in 1988 for the rape and murder of teenage schoolgirls Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire.
Lynda Mann’s body was found dumped on a local footpath in Narborough, Leics, on November 22, 1983, while Dawn Ashworth’s body was found in Enderby in similar circumstances in July 1986.
Both girls had been raped and strangled.
Pitchfork managed to evade arrest until 1987, when a bakery colleague boasted he got £200 for posing as him to give a blood and saliva sample.
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