Editing Colin Pitchfork (section)

===Arrest and conviction===
In early 1987, police asked every local male between the ages of 16 and 34 to voluntarily give blood samples for DNA testing. By the end of January, a thousand men had been tested. Men who declined to give blood samples found themselves under scrutiny by police.<ref name="evan" />

[[File:The Clarendon - geograph.org.uk - 5301673.jpg|thumb|right|The pub where Ian Kelly admitted, on Saturday 1 August 1987, that he had taken the test]]
According to 1988 news reports, one of Pitchfork's colleagues at the bakery, 23-year-old Ian Kelly, who lived outside the area under investigation, was overheard in a pub discussing how he had provided a blood sample on Pitchfork's behalf, by using a fake passport to masquerade as Pitchfork. He had agreed to do this in exchange for £200, and took the test on 29 January 1987.<ref>''Leicester Mercury'' Friday 22 January 1988, page 1</ref> The conversation, during the lunchtime of Saturday, 1 August 1987, was overheard by other bakery colleagues, and 28-year-old Jackie Foggin ({{nee|Tyson}}), of [[Fleckney]], reported it to the police.<ref>''Leicester Mercury'' Monday 16 May 1988, page 24</ref> This vital tip-off was later credited with enabling Pitchfork to be caught. Pitchfork had told Kelly that he wanted to avoid being harassed by police because of his prior convictions for indecent exposure. <ref name="evan">{{cite book | last = Evans | first = Colin | title = The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes | publisher = John Wiley & Sons | location = London | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-0471283690 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/casebookofforens00coli/page/62 62] | url = https://archive.org/details/casebookofforens00coli/page/62 }}</ref> Kelly was arrested at 31 Stuart Street in Leicester on Friday, 18 September.

On Saturday, 19 September 1987, Pitchfork was arrested<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/pitchfork/story-29568073-detail/story.html|title=Memories of Colin Pitchfork's second murder - 30 years on|date=2016-07-31|newspaper=Leicester Mercury|language=en|access-date=2017-02-04}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> at 32 Haybarn Close, in [[Littlethorpe, Leicestershire|Littlethorpe]], by Detective Inspector Mick Thomas. Pitchfork's wife tried to attack him, when he told her that he had killed two girls.<ref>''Leicester Mercury'' Saturday 23 January 1988, page 10</ref>

During questioning, Pitchfork admitted to [[Indecent exposure|exposing himself]] to more than 1,000 women, a compulsion that began in his early teens. He later progressed to [[sexual assault]] and then to strangling his victims. Pitchfork said this was in order to protect his identity. Investigators rejected this, viewing the motivation for the strangulations as "perverted sadism".<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2009/963.html|title=Pitchfork, R v [2009] EWCA Crim 963 (14 May 2009)}}</ref> During his interviews with the police he admitted his crimes, but lied about the level and nature of the violence he had inflicted on his victims.{{R|Wambaugh 1995}} 

At his trial at [[Leicester Crown Court]], Pitchfork pleaded guilty to the two rapes and murders, in addition to sexual assault of two other girls, and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.<ref name="2023PBPH1"/><ref name=":7">{{Cite news |last=Hoyland |first=Paul |date=23 January 1988 |title=Genetic test traps girls' killer |pages=1 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian/33455288/ |access-date=16 June 2023}}</ref> In January 1988 he was sentenced to [[life imprisonment]] for the two murders and 10 years for raping the victims; he was also sentenced to three years for each count of sexual assault and three years for perverting the course of justice, with all sentences to run concurrently.<ref name="2023PBPH1"/><ref name=":7" /> A [[psychiatric]] report prepared for the court described Pitchfork as possessing a [[psychopathic personality disorder]] accompanied with a serious psychosexual [[pathology]].<ref name="auto" /> The [[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales|Lord Chief Justice]] at the time of his sentencing said: "From the point of view of the safety of the public I doubt if he should ever be released."<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-32487464|title='DNA' child killer Colin Pitchfork gets parole review|last=Shaw|first=Danny|date=2015-04-27|newspaper=BBC News|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-02-04}}</ref> The [[Secretary of State (United Kingdom)|Secretary of State]] set a [[Life imprisonment in England and Wales|minimum term]] of 30 years; in 2009, Pitchfork's minimum term sentence was reduced on appeal to 28 years.<ref>[http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2009/963.html Pitchfork, R v] [2009] EWCA Crim 963</ref>