12/02/2014

CPS To Charge Man With 1993 Schoolgirl Murder

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have said that they have sufficient evidence to charge a 45-year-old man with the 1993 murder of schoolgirl Claire Tiltman.

Miss Tiltman was found dead in an alleyway near her Greenhithe home in 1993 just days after her 16th birthday.. She had been stabbed more than 40 times.

The CPS have now said that Colin Ash-Smith will apear before Maidstone Magistrates' Court on 28 February charged with her murder.

Kent and Essex Police said that the case has been one of their longest-running and had "remained in the forefront" for over two decades.

(MH/CD)

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