ITV to film drama about double child-killer Colin Pitchfork

A television drama based on the hunt for double child killer Colin Pitchfork is to begin filming later this year. The ITV film, called Code of a Killer, will tell how Pitchfork was the first killer to be caught by the DNA fingerprinting technique pioneered by the University of Leicester's Professor Alec Jeffreys. The DNA evidence led to Pitchfork being jailed for murdering Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, both 15, in Narborough in the 1980s. The killer, from Littlethorpe, was caught after more than... Reported by Leicester Mercury 20 hours ago.