Killer Black quizzed over missing Genette
Last updated at 09:23 20 April 2005
Triple child killer Robert Black was today still being questioned by police about the disappearance of a 13-year-old newspaper girl who vanished 26 years ago.
Black was arrested yesterday by Devon and Cornwall officers on suspicion of murdering Genette Tate, who vanished from a country lane near her home in east Devon in 1978.
Black, 57, is in custody at Leeds police station where he is being interviewed by South West officers.
Black was jailed in 1994 and was serving ten life sentences in Wakefield Prison, Yorkshire, for the abduction and murder of three young girls, and the attempted abduction of a 15-year-old girl.
Genette disappeared from Within Lane, near Aylesbeare, at 3.35pm on Saturday, August 29 1978, while delivering copies of a local newspaper.
Her bicycle was found, undamaged, lying in the lane, by two girls who had been walking towards the village with Genette just minutes before.
Genette's body was never found, and her case
became Britain's longest missing person inquiry.
A team of has been working on the case ever since, although all members of the original squad
have retired.
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