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Colin Pitchfork, the Glossary

Colin Pitchfork (born 23 March 1960) is an English child-murderer and child-rapist.^[1]

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1983 in England
1983 murders in the United Kingdom
1986 in England
1986 murders in the United Kingdom
Blaby
British people convicted of sexual assault
Criminals from Leicestershire
English murderers of children
English people convicted of rape
People from Hinckley and Bosworth (district)
Rape in the 1980s

Academic degree

An academic degree is a qualification awarded to a student upon successful completion of a course of study in higher education, usually at a college or university.

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Advocate

An advocate is a professional in the field of law.

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Alberto Costa (British politician)

Alberto Castrenze Costa (born 13 November 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Leicestershire since 2015.

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Sir Alec John Jeffreys, (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.

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Alex Chalk

Alexander John Gervase Chalk (born 8 August 1976) is a British politician and barrister who served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice from April 2023 to July 2024.

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Allan Grimson

Allan Michael Grimson (born 1958) is a convicted British murderer and suspected serial killer who is responsible for murdering at least two Royal Navy sailors and who is suspected of killing many others, possibly up to another 20 undiscovered victims. Colin Pitchfork and Allan Grimson are 20th-century English criminals, English prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment and prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by England and Wales.

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Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Babysitting

Babysitting is temporarily caring for a child.

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Batman rapist

The Batman rapist is an unidentified English serial sex offender who committed at least seventeen sexual assaults on women in the city of Bath, Somerset, between 1991 and 2000. Colin Pitchfork and Batman rapist are 20th-century English criminals.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Beenham murders

The Beenham murders were the murders of a teenage girl and two 9-year-old girls in the Berkshire village of Beenham in 1966 and 1967.

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Blood type

A blood type (also known as a blood group) is a classification of blood, based on the presence and absence of antibodies and inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs).

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Bosworth Academy

Bosworth Academy (formerly Bosworth Community College) is a coeducational secondary school located in Desford, Leicester, England and is part of the LiFE Multi-Academy Trust.

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Braille

Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Bristol Post

The Bristol Post is a city/regional five-day-a-week (formerly appearing six days per week) newspaper covering news in the city of Bristol, including stories from the whole of Greater Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

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Brockington College

Brockington College is a Church of England mixed secondary school in Enderby, Leicestershire, England.

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Cake decorating

Cake decorating is the art of decorating a cake for special occasions such as birthdays, weddings, baby showers, national or religious holidays, or as a promotional item.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Carlton Hayes Hospital

Carlton Hayes Hospital, Narborough, Leicestershire was the psychiatric hospital of Leicestershire from 1907 to 1995.

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Code of a Killer

Code of a Killer is a three-part British police drama television series which tells the true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its introductory use by Detective David Baker in catching the double murderer Colin Pitchfork.

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David Threlfall

David John Threlfall (born 12 October 1953) is an English stage, film and television actor and director.

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Desford

Desford is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of England, west of the centre of Leicester and around 7 miles north east of Hinckley.

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Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh

Susannah Jane Lamplugh (born 3 May 1961) was a British estate agent reported missing on 28 July 1986 (aged 25) in Fulham, London, England, United Kingdom. Colin Pitchfork and Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh are 1986 murders in the United Kingdom.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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DNA profiling

DNA profiling (also called DNA fingerprinting and genetic fingerprinting) is the process of determining an individual's deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) characteristics.

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Dominic Raab

Dominic Rennie Raab (born 25 February 1974) is a British former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor from September 2021 to September 2022 and again from October 2022 to April 2023.

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Earl Shilton

Earl Shilton is a market town in Leicestershire, England, about from Hinckley and about from Leicester.

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Enderby, Leicestershire

Enderby is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, on the southwest outskirts of the city of Leicester. Colin Pitchfork and Enderby, Leicestershire are Blaby.

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Enzyme

Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.

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Evidence

Evidence for a proposition is what supports the proposition.

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False confession

A false confession is an admission of guilt for a crime which the individual did not commit.

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Fleckney

Fleckney is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.

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Forensic Files

Forensic Files, originally known as Medical Detectives, is an American documentary television program that reveals how forensic science is used to solve violent crimes, mysterious accidents, and outbreaks of illness.

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Forensic science

Forensic science, also known as criminalistics, is the application of science principles and methods to support legal decision-making in matters of criminal and civil law.

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George Davies (retailer)

George William Davies (born 29 October 1941) is an English fashion designer and retailer.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Great Glen, Leicestershire

Great Glen (or Glenn) is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district, in Leicestershire, 2 miles south of Oadby.

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Halfway house

A halfway house is an institute for people with criminal backgrounds or substance use problems to learn (or relearn) the necessary skills to re-integrate into society and better support and care for themselves.

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Hinckley

Hinckley is a market town in south-west Leicestershire, England.

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HM Prison Leyhill

HM Prison Leyhill is a category D men's prison located in the parish of Cromhall in Gloucestershire, England.

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Indecent exposure

Indecent exposure is the deliberate public exposure by a person of a portion of their body in a manner contrary to local standards of appropriate behavior.

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Intellectual disability

Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom) and formerly mental retardation (in the United States),Rosa's Law, Pub.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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John Cannan

John David Guise Cannan (born 20 February 1954) is a British murderer, serial rapist, serial abductor and suspected serial killer. Colin Pitchfork and John Cannan are English people convicted of murder and English people convicted of rape.

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John Duttine

John Arthur Duttine (born 15 March 1949) is an English actor noted for his roles on stage, films and television.

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John Simm

John Ronald Simm (born 10 July 1970) is an English actor, director, and musician.

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Kirk Bloodsworth

Kirk Noble Bloodsworth (born October 31, 1960) is a former Maryland waterman and the first American sentenced to death to be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing.

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Koestler Arts

Koestler Arts (formerly The Koestler Trust) is a charity that helps ex-offenders, secure patients and detainees in the UK to express themselves creatively.

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Leicester

Leicester is a city, unitary authority area, unparished area and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England.

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Leicester Law Courts

The Leicestershire Law Courts is a Crown Court venue, which deals with criminal cases, as well as a County Court venue, which deals with civil cases, in Wellington Street, Leicester, England.

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Leicester Mercury

The Leicester Mercury is a British regional newspaper for the city of Leicester and the neighbouring counties of Leicestershire and Rutland.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term).

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Life imprisonment in England and Wales

In England and Wales, life imprisonment is a sentence that lasts until the death of the prisoner, although in most cases the prisoner will be eligible for parole after a minimum term set by the judge.

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Littlethorpe, Leicestershire

Littlethorpe is a small village approximately south of Leicester, separated from the village of Narborough by the Leicester to Birmingham railway line, and the River Soar of which it is the true discharge. Colin Pitchfork and Littlethorpe, Leicestershire are Blaby.

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Local World

Local World Holdings Ltd. was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK that published around 100 print titles and more than 70 websites.

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Lord Chancellor

The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister.

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Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

The Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales (alternatively Lord Chief Justice when the holder is male) is the head of the judiciary of England and Wales and the president of the courts of England and Wales.

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Market Bosworth

Market Bosworth is a market town and civil parish in Leicestershire, England.

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Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Michael Gove

Michael Andrew Gove (born Graeme Andrew Logan, 26 August 1967) is a British retired politician who served in various cabinet positions under David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.

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Modus operandi

A modus operandi (often shortened to M.O. or MO) is an individual’s habits of working, particularly in the context of business or criminal investigations, but also generally.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Murder in English law

Murder is an offence under the common law legal system of England and Wales.

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Murder of Deborah Linsley

On the afternoon of 23 March 1988, Deborah Linsley was murdered on a train between Petts Wood and London Victoria stations in Greater London.

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Murder of Janet Brown

Janet Brown (27 January 1944 – 10 April 1995) was an English nurse who was murdered by an intruder in her house in Radnage, Buckinghamshire in 1995.

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Murder of June Anne Devaney

The murder of June Anne Devaney is a British child murder which occurred on 15 May 1948 when a girl aged 3 years 11 months was abducted from her cot while an inpatient at Queen's Park Hospital in Blackburn, Lancashire.

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Murder of Linda Cook

The murder of Linda Cook was committed in Portsmouth on 9 December 1986. Colin Pitchfork and murder of Linda Cook are 1986 in England, 1986 murders in the United Kingdom and rape in the 1980s.

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Murder of Lindsay Rimer

Lindsay Jo Rimer (17 February 1981 –) was a 13-year-old British girl from Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire who disappeared on the evening of 7 November 1994.

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Murder of Melanie Hall

Melanie Hall (20 August 1970 – disappeared 9 June 1996; declared legally dead 17 November 2004) was a British hospital clerical officer from Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, who disappeared following a night out at Cadillacs nightclub in Bath.

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Murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon

The murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon, two young women from London, England, occurred in separate, sexually motivated attacks by the same unidentified individual during 1975.

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Murders of Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb and Barbara Mayo

Jacqueline Susan Ansell-Lamb (21 September 1951 – 14 March 1970) and Barbara Janet Mayo (20 March 1946 – 12 October 1970) were two young women who were murdered in separate incidents in 1970.

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Murders of Kate Bushell and Lyn Bryant

The murders of Kate Bushell and Linda "Lyn" Bryant, a 14-year-old schoolgirl and a 41-year-old woman, respectively, occurred in separate incidents in the West Country, England. Colin Pitchfork and murders of Kate Bushell and Lyn Bryant are 20th-century English criminals and English murderers of children.

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Narborough, Leicestershire

Narborough is a large village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England, around southwest of Leicester. Colin Pitchfork and Narborough, Leicestershire are Blaby.

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Nathan Wright (actor)

Nathan Wright is a British actor.

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Newbold Verdon

Newbold Verdon is a village and civil parish in the county of Leicestershire, England.

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Next plc

Next plc, trading as Next (styled as NEXT) is a British multinational clothing, footwear and home products retailer, which has its headquarters in Enderby, England.

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Open prison

An open prison or open jail is any jail in which the prisoners are trusted to complete sentences with minimal supervision and perimeter security and are often not locked up in their prison cells.

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Parole

Parole (also known as provisional release or supervised release) is a form of early release of a prison inmate where the prisoner agrees to abide by behavioral conditions, including checking-in with their designated parole officers, or else they may be rearrested and returned to prison.

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Parole Board for England and Wales

The Parole Board for England and Wales was established in 1968 under the Criminal Justice Act 1967.

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Pathology

Pathology is the study of disease and injury.

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Patrick Mackay

David Groves, better known by his birth name Patrick David Mackay (born 25 September 1952), is a British serial killer who is believed to be one of the United Kingdom's most prolific serial murderers. Colin Pitchfork and Patrick Mackay are 20th-century English criminals, English prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment, people with antisocial personality disorder and prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by England and Wales.

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PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions.

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Psychopathy

Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality, is a personality construct characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited and egocentric traits, masked by superficial charm and the outward appearance of apparent normalcy.

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Rape in English law

Rape is a statutory offence in England and Wales.

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Real Crime

Real Crime is a British documentary television series produced by ITV Studios for the ITV network.

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Robert Buckland

Sir Robert James Buckland (born 22 September 1968) is a British politician who served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice from 2019 to 2021, and as Secretary of State for Wales from July to October 2022.

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Royal Festival Hall

The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,700-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London, England.

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Secretary of State (United Kingdom)

His Majesty's principal secretaries of state, or secretaries of state, are senior ministers of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Secretary of State for Justice

The secretary of state for justice is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Ministry of Justice.

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Semen

Semen, also known as seminal fluid, is a bodily fluid that contains spermatozoa.

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Sentence (law)

In criminal law, a sentence is the punishment for a crime ordered by a trial court after conviction in a criminal procedure, normally at the conclusion of a trial.

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Sexual assault

Sexual assault is an act in which one intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will.

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Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Pitchfork

Also known as Collin Pitchfork, Dawn Ashworth, Enderby murders, Linda mann, Lynda Mann.

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See also

1983 in England

1983 murders in the United Kingdom

1986 in England

1986 murders in the United Kingdom

Blaby

British people convicted of sexual assault

Criminals from Leicestershire

English murderers of children

English people convicted of rape

People from Hinckley and Bosworth (district)

Rape in the 1980s

References