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| Elsie Frost murder: High Court approves new inquest | Elsie Frost murder: High Court approves new inquest |
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| The family of a 14-year-old girl murdered more than 50 years ago has won a High Court bid for a fresh inquest into her death. | The family of a 14-year-old girl murdered more than 50 years ago has won a High Court bid for a fresh inquest into her death. |
| Elsie Frost was killed as she walked back to her Wakefield home on 9 October 1965. She had been repeatedly stabbed. | Elsie Frost was killed as she walked back to her Wakefield home on 9 October 1965. She had been repeatedly stabbed. |
| Convicted child murderer Peter Pickering was expected to be charged, but died last year. | Convicted child murderer Peter Pickering was expected to be charged, but died last year. |
| Senior judge Lord Justice Irwin, sitting with Mr Justice Jay, ruled "there will be a new inquest". | Senior judge Lord Justice Irwin, sitting with Mr Justice Jay, ruled "there will be a new inquest". |
| The judge said the court's reasons for its judgment would be given at a later date. | |
| Elsie's body was found by a railway tunnel in the West Yorkshire town and an inquest was held the following year. | |
| There have never been any successful prosecutions over her murder. | There have never been any successful prosecutions over her murder. |
| Last year the Attorney General said there was "new evidence" that had not been heard at the 1966 inquest. | Last year the Attorney General said there was "new evidence" that had not been heard at the 1966 inquest. |
| Speaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London after the ruling, Elsie's brother Colin Frost said: "It's a massive step in the right direction, to say the very least. | |
| "I don't think we really understand the enormity of it yet." | |
| Mr Frost, who was six years old when his sister was killed, said: "We've come a long way for this. We've fought and fought and fought. | |
| "We have had lots and lots of support from different people. | |
| "It just feels as if we've vindicated everything." | |
| Mr Frost added: "I'm totally elated with what we are going to achieve for Elsie. We are going to leave a legacy after all of this." | |
| Mr Frost and his sister Anne Cleave persuaded West Yorkshire Police to reopen the files and new evidence was uncovered, which pointed to Pickering, nicknamed the "Beast of Wombwell". | |
| Police passed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service and had been expecting a decision on whether or not to charge Pickering when he died. | |
| The 80-year-old was locked up for more than 45 years after killing 14-year-old Shirley Boldy in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, in 1972. | |
| At the time of his death, the sex attacker was also awaiting sentence for raping an 18-year-old woman - who is now in her 60s - weeks before Shirley's abduction. | |
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