Who Really Killed Claire?

<p><em>Who Really Killed Claire?</em> re-investigates the brutal yet apparently motiveless murder of 16-year-old Claire Tiltman in Greenhithe Kent in 1993.</p><p>It describes how police investigations faltered for almost 20 years until Colin Ash-Smith due to be released from a long prison sentence for attacks on young women was belatedly charged with this cold case murder.</p><p><br></p><p>One of the UK's very first cases involving 'bad character' evidence under a controversial new law. Expertly researched the book revisits the crime scene investigation prosecution media frenzy and questionable urgency that led to Ash-Smith's pre-emptive arrest and conviction for murder.</p><p>Meanwhile A predatory serial killer was eliminated from the investigation despite 'hallmarks' making him a strong suspect. Well placed to raise doubts ex-cold case investigator Alan Jackaman analyses the wholly circumstantial evidence and explains why he believes police became too preoccupied with the wrong man.</p><p><br></p><p>Alan Jackaman spent over 25 years as a police officer including with the Metropolitan Police dedicated Murder Investigation Team and Murder Review Group looking into unsolved murders. He is the author of <em>Napper: Through a Glass Darkly.</em></p>