UK News 16-11-2001 1968 Child Killer Caught By DNA who: Child killer Brian Field what: Jailed for life for murder committed 33 years ago where: The Old Bailey, LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "One of Britain`s most evil child killers was finally caged for ever yesterday," says The Sun, "after DNA checks proved he murdered a schoolboy 33 years ago." "The parents of Roy Tutill, who was 14, died before they could see Brian Field brought to justice for the murder of a son who became known as the boy who never came home," writes Lewis Smith in The Times. "In April 1968 Roy - known as Tutts to his friends - decided to hitch-hike to his home in Brockham Green, near Dorking in Surrey. He was saving money to buy a new bicycle and train set," recalls The Guardian`s Steven Morris. He was never seen alive again. His strangled corpse was discovered in a nearby copse three days later, "his clothing, including his red and grey striped school blazer, were folded across his body." By chance, farm labourer and convicted sex offender Brian Field was arrested for a drink-driving offence in Birmingham in September 1999 and the results of a routine mouth swab were fed into the national DNA database. He confessed to the crime two days after his arrest. Last night, continues Lewis Smith, "police confirmed that they would be re-examining hundreds of unsolved sex attacks on youngsters to establish if any could be linked to Field." Meanwhile, at Lewes Crown Court yesterday, the jury was dismissed in the Sarah Payne murder trial because of what the judge called a "procedural irregularity". A second trial will begin today. [... more]

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