Peter Chapman, de 32 años, mintió para quedar con Ashleigh Hall, de 17
El arrestado tiene antecedentes por agresión sexual a chicas jóvenes
↓"Hemos aprendido una lección terrible", dice la madre de la niña asesinada [VO]
ELMUNDO.es | Reuters | Madrid | Londres, 29 OCT 2009 (argijokin)
Tiene 32 años, pero se quitó la mitad para quedar con una chica de 17 a través de Facebook y convencerla de que pasara con él la noche del domingo. La familia de la joven no volvió a verla con vida, y su supuesto amigo está ahora acusado de secuestrarla y asesinarla al día siguiente en el condado de Durham, en el noreste de Inglaterra.
El presunto homicida, Peter Chapman, ya tenía antecedentes por agresión sexual a chicas jóvenes y no había notificado a las autoridades su dirección de residencia, como exige la legislación británica.
Fue este hombre a quien Ashleigh Hall se encontró el pasado domingo, y no al chaval de 16 años con el que pensaba que iba a mantener su primer encuentro en persona tras mantener conversaciones en la popular red social de Internet.
Al día siguiente, su madre, a quien le dijo que iba a quedarse con un amigo, intentó contactar con ella sin éxito a través del teléfono móvil.
La larga espera se resolvió de la peor manera posible en la noche del lunes, cuando Chapman fue arrestado por la policía, cerca de la localidad de Sedgefield, bajo sospecha de haber cometido delitos al volante.
El hombre llevó a los investigadores hasta un campo donde hallaron el cadáver de la adolescente, y el próximo martes deberá comparecer ante un tribunal para explicar lo ocurrido en su primer y brutal encuentro con su 'amiga' de Facebook.
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Last updated at 12:24 PM on 29th October 2009 (dailymail.co.uk)
The mother of a teenager lured to her death over the internet yesterday warned other parents of the dangers of social networking sites.
Andrea Hall, 39, spoke of the 'terrible lesson' she had learned.
Her 17-year-old daughter Ashleigh was found dead in a ditch on Monday. The student nursery nurse had left home on Sunday evening and told her mother that she would be staying at a friend's house.
She believed she was going to meet a boy of 16 whom she had befriended on the social networking site Facebook.
Her body was found at the side of a secluded country road in Sedgefield, County Durham, known locally as a lovers' lane.
Miss Hall, who has three other children, yesterday said the death of her eldest child had devastated the family.
She begged other parents: 'Tell your kids to be careful on the internet. Don't meet someone without telling your family where you are going.
'Don't trust anybody and don't put your children on Facebook or other sites if they are underage. We have learned a terrible lesson.'
Ashleigh lived with her mother in Darlington and had three sisters - Olivia, six, Ellie, four, and one-year-old Evie.
Miss Hall, who also has a page on Facebook, said her daughter was in her final year at college where she was studying child care and was looking forward to a career as a child minder or nursery nurse.
'No one can imagine the hurt and devastation that has caused our family,' she said.
'Ashleigh was loving, honest, caring and well-liked.
'Everybody loved her. She was a person who brought light into the lives of others.
'To have Ashleigh taken from us in such circumstances is beyond belief and I don't want other families to suffer what we are going through.
'All we ask now is that people help the police in any way they can. We don't want any other child to be a victim.'
In a separate message, posted on her Facebook site just hours after she learned of her daughter's death, she simply wrote: 'My beautiful daughter has been taken away from me.'
Unemployed drifter Peter Chapman, 32, is thought to have led police to Ashleigh's body on Monday evening after being arrested by traffic officers.
He appeared before Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court yesterday charged with killing the teenager, kidnap and failing to notify the police of a change of address as all sex offenders are required to do.
Unshaven and wearing blue jeans and a creased white T-shirt, he kept his hands in his pockets and his head bowed for the five-minute hearing.
He remained standing in the dock as the charges against him were read to the court.
Chapman is thought to have been monitored every six months by the police under the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) for sex offenders.
Last night it emerged that Chapman's ex-fiancee is the spitting image of Ashleigh Hall.
Dyanne Littler, who moved in with the murder suspect after he proposed to her, has the exact brown hair and eyes and rounded features as the tragic 17-year-old.
Miss Littler, a mother-of-one, also revealed how she was wooed by Chapman over Facebook - the same internet site he used to target Ashleigh.
She moved in to his flat in Merseyside with her baby daughter Alycia in July last year and fell pregnant with his child.
A month later Chapman was arrested after police discovered he was looking after her baby despite the fact he was on the sex offender's register.
She immediately ended the relationship and a few months later she suffered a miscarriage she blames on stress.
Last night Miss Littler , 25, told The Sun: "He was always on Facebook and other social sites - he was on his PC constantly."
Magistrate Christopher Shaw told Chapman that he would not be granting bail because of the 'substantial grounds' that he would commit further offences. Chapman will appear before Teesside Crown Court on November 3.
Last night, Merseyside Police said they had launched a review into Chapman's case.
In a statement they said: 'We can confirm that Peter Chapman was a registered sex offender who was resident in the force area.
'It was recently established that he had left his address in Merseyside and failed to notify the police to this.
'He was immediately circulated as being wanted for this offence and efforts have been made since to locate him.
'As a matter of routine and as with any such breach of requirements by a registered sex offender Merseyside Police are reviewing Chapman's case.'
A former neighbour of Chapman's from Kirkby, Liverpool, where he lived for two years until October last year, said: 'He was no problem most of the time, he had a manual job with a glass company.
'He seemed to like cars, that was his big interest. He had a couple of bangers he was doing up.'
A Facebook page under Chapman's name, with a black-and-white photo, was still active yesterday. All of his 144 listed 'friends' are women.
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El arrestado tiene antecedentes por agresión sexual a chicas jóvenes
↓"Hemos aprendido una lección terrible", dice la madre de la niña asesinada [VO]
ELMUNDO.es | Reuters | Madrid | Londres, 29 OCT 2009 (argijokin)
Tiene 32 años, pero se quitó la mitad para quedar con una chica de 17 a través de Facebook y convencerla de que pasara con él la noche del domingo. La familia de la joven no volvió a verla con vida, y su supuesto amigo está ahora acusado de secuestrarla y asesinarla al día siguiente en el condado de Durham, en el noreste de Inglaterra.
El presunto homicida, Peter Chapman, ya tenía antecedentes por agresión sexual a chicas jóvenes y no había notificado a las autoridades su dirección de residencia, como exige la legislación británica.
Fue este hombre a quien Ashleigh Hall se encontró el pasado domingo, y no al chaval de 16 años con el que pensaba que iba a mantener su primer encuentro en persona tras mantener conversaciones en la popular red social de Internet.
Al día siguiente, su madre, a quien le dijo que iba a quedarse con un amigo, intentó contactar con ella sin éxito a través del teléfono móvil.
La larga espera se resolvió de la peor manera posible en la noche del lunes, cuando Chapman fue arrestado por la policía, cerca de la localidad de Sedgefield, bajo sospecha de haber cometido delitos al volante.
El hombre llevó a los investigadores hasta un campo donde hallaron el cadáver de la adolescente, y el próximo martes deberá comparecer ante un tribunal para explicar lo ocurrido en su primer y brutal encuentro con su 'amiga' de Facebook.
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Ashleigh Hall: 'We've learned a terrible lesson', says mother of girl killed after going to see 'boy' she met on Facebook
By Paul Sims, James Tozer and Liz HullLast updated at 12:24 PM on 29th October 2009 (dailymail.co.uk)
The mother of a teenager lured to her death over the internet yesterday warned other parents of the dangers of social networking sites.
Andrea Hall, 39, spoke of the 'terrible lesson' she had learned.
Her 17-year-old daughter Ashleigh was found dead in a ditch on Monday. The student nursery nurse had left home on Sunday evening and told her mother that she would be staying at a friend's house.
She believed she was going to meet a boy of 16 whom she had befriended on the social networking site Facebook.
Her body was found at the side of a secluded country road in Sedgefield, County Durham, known locally as a lovers' lane.
Miss Hall, who has three other children, yesterday said the death of her eldest child had devastated the family.
She begged other parents: 'Tell your kids to be careful on the internet. Don't meet someone without telling your family where you are going.
'Don't trust anybody and don't put your children on Facebook or other sites if they are underage. We have learned a terrible lesson.'
Ashleigh lived with her mother in Darlington and had three sisters - Olivia, six, Ellie, four, and one-year-old Evie.
Miss Hall, who also has a page on Facebook, said her daughter was in her final year at college where she was studying child care and was looking forward to a career as a child minder or nursery nurse.
'No one can imagine the hurt and devastation that has caused our family,' she said.
'Ashleigh was loving, honest, caring and well-liked.
'Everybody loved her. She was a person who brought light into the lives of others.
'To have Ashleigh taken from us in such circumstances is beyond belief and I don't want other families to suffer what we are going through.
'All we ask now is that people help the police in any way they can. We don't want any other child to be a victim.'
In a separate message, posted on her Facebook site just hours after she learned of her daughter's death, she simply wrote: 'My beautiful daughter has been taken away from me.'
Unemployed drifter Peter Chapman, 32, is thought to have led police to Ashleigh's body on Monday evening after being arrested by traffic officers.
He appeared before Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court yesterday charged with killing the teenager, kidnap and failing to notify the police of a change of address as all sex offenders are required to do.
Unshaven and wearing blue jeans and a creased white T-shirt, he kept his hands in his pockets and his head bowed for the five-minute hearing.
He remained standing in the dock as the charges against him were read to the court.
Chapman is thought to have been monitored every six months by the police under the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) for sex offenders.
Last night it emerged that Chapman's ex-fiancee is the spitting image of Ashleigh Hall.
Dyanne Littler, who moved in with the murder suspect after he proposed to her, has the exact brown hair and eyes and rounded features as the tragic 17-year-old.
Miss Littler, a mother-of-one, also revealed how she was wooed by Chapman over Facebook - the same internet site he used to target Ashleigh.
She moved in to his flat in Merseyside with her baby daughter Alycia in July last year and fell pregnant with his child.
A month later Chapman was arrested after police discovered he was looking after her baby despite the fact he was on the sex offender's register.
She immediately ended the relationship and a few months later she suffered a miscarriage she blames on stress.
Last night Miss Littler , 25, told The Sun: "He was always on Facebook and other social sites - he was on his PC constantly."
Magistrate Christopher Shaw told Chapman that he would not be granting bail because of the 'substantial grounds' that he would commit further offences. Chapman will appear before Teesside Crown Court on November 3.
Last night, Merseyside Police said they had launched a review into Chapman's case.
In a statement they said: 'We can confirm that Peter Chapman was a registered sex offender who was resident in the force area.
'It was recently established that he had left his address in Merseyside and failed to notify the police to this.
'He was immediately circulated as being wanted for this offence and efforts have been made since to locate him.
'As a matter of routine and as with any such breach of requirements by a registered sex offender Merseyside Police are reviewing Chapman's case.'
A former neighbour of Chapman's from Kirkby, Liverpool, where he lived for two years until October last year, said: 'He was no problem most of the time, he had a manual job with a glass company.
'He seemed to like cars, that was his big interest. He had a couple of bangers he was doing up.'
A Facebook page under Chapman's name, with a black-and-white photo, was still active yesterday. All of his 144 listed 'friends' are women.
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