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Killer ‘not man arrested over cold case murder’
Daily Express
|October 15, 2025
Former suspect is not prisoner being quizzed by police
A SERIAL sex killer thought to be the prime suspect in a cold case is not the man who has been arrested.
Detectives have detained a prisoner on suspicion of murder in the 31-year-old hunt for the killer of schoolgirl Lindsay Jo Rimer, 13.
But it is not John Taylor, 69, who is serving a whole life sentence for the murder of another schoolgirl Leanne Tiernan and a series of violent sex attacks on women and children.
He was repeatedly probed by West Yorkshire Police as a suspect for Lindsay’s killing in 1994.
A source close to the original investigation has confirmed to the Daily Express that Taylor was not the man arrested on Monday. And West
This story is from the October 15, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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