Clothes link man to killing; PROBE.Byline: By STEPHEN WHITE A LIBRARIAN who confessed to a 38-year-old murder has now been officially linked to the killing, police revealed. Harvey Richardson, 77, left detailed notes about the strangulation strangulation /stran·gu·la·tion/ (strang?gu-la´shun) 1. choke (2). 2. arrest of circulation in a part due to compression. See hemostasis (2). stran·gu·la·tion n. of Lorraine Jacob, 19, in Liverpool in 1970 when he died of cancer in February. Now forensic tests on women's clothing found in his terraced home in Wigan Wigan (wĭg`ən), city (1991 pop. 88,725) and metropolitan district, N England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area on the Douglas River. have confirmed his involvement. Det Supt Ian Kemble, of Merseyside police Merseyside Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing Merseyside in North West England. The force area is 647 square kilometres with a population of around 1.5 million. At present the force has 4,466 police officers plus over 2,000 police staff. , said yesterday: "In later life Harvey Richardson became a librarian and he had a passion for languages, particularly Russian and German. "Anyone who knew Mr Richardson, particularly at the time of the murder, and during the 1960s, could have information which could be vital to the investigation." Lorraine Jacob was last seen walking alone in Liverpool on September 1, 1970. Her body was found the following day by binmen minus some clothing. CAPTION(S): FIND Wigan house |
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