Cyril Smith
Videos
Sir Cyril Richard Smith was a British Liberal Party and Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament for Rochdale from 1972 to 1992.
Smith addressing the Liberal Party Assembly in 1987
Murder of Lesley Molseed
Videos
Lesley Susan Molseed was an English schoolgirl who was abducted and murdered by Ronald Castree on 5 October 1975 in West Yorkshire. An intellectually disabled man who lived near Molseed's residence in
Cyril Smith
…Liberal MP during his parliamentary career to advocate the return of the death penalty. One of his constituents was jailed for sixteen years for the sexual murder of a child, in what turned out to be a miscarriage of justice. The man's mother repeatedly approached Smith for help, but he declined to take the case on. In 1978…
Lesley Molseed
Kiszko was tried at Leeds Assizes then seated at Leeds Town Hall (courtroom pictured)