Police identify prime suspect in 2005 killing

A MAN police are now sure committed a murder in 2005 had been stopped by officers just six days after the vicious killing - and then released.

- BY DAN WARBURTON

The burned body of 36-year-old Jennifer Kiely was found in a beach shelter on January 23, 2005. She had been raped and stabbed 16 times.

Detectives linked the mum-of-three’s brutal death to some of Britain’s worst offenders, including Sally Anne Bowman killer Mark Dixie and sex monster Peter Tobin.

But they were ruled out and police were unable to trace the fiend responsible for the sexually motivated attack, despite a £20,000 reward.

Arrested

However, now Sussex Police officers say overwhelming DNA evidence points to Keith Dowbekin, who died in 2014 aged 60.