A MAN wrongly jailed for a double murder is demanding police re-investigate links with a third killing in an effort to catch the culprit.
Peter Fell, who was brought up in Great Harwood, spoke out after police revealed convicted murderer Tony Jasinskyj was suspected of a series of killings throughout Britain.
Peter, a former soldier whose mother lived in Accrington, was sentenced to two life sentences for the murders of Ann Lee, 44, and Peggy Johnson, 66, who were stabbed to death as they walked their dogs on Aldershot Common in 1982.
He finally had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal last year after a 20-year campaign to clear his name.
Jasinskyj beat 14 year-old Marion Crofts to death in 1981 in Aldershot but was caught only in April 2001 after being snared by DNA.
Peter says he was one of more than 800 people who had been DNA-tested for Marion's murder before his release on police bail pending his appeal decision in December 2000.
He said there must have been some link between the two cases for him to be sampled.
Det Supt John James held a meeting with 40 other police forces last week after concerns Jasinskyj could have been responsible for unsolved rapes and murders throughout the country.
"He will be considered in relation to a number of serious offences," he said.
"The nature of Marion's murder leads anyone in the police to the conclusion that it is highly probable he is responsible for other serious crimes."
A spokesman for Hampshire Police said there was no new line of inquiry into the murders of Ann Lee and Peggy Johnson and as such, they would not be reopening the case.
When asked if the crimes were being linked -- or have ever been linked -- she declined to comment further.
Peter, who served with the army in Aldershot before his arrest, claimed that before his detention for the Lee and Johnson murders, police said that there was a link with the Crofts case.
He claimed they then dropped this line of inquiry after realising he was serving with the army in Germany when the murder took place.
Peter, a former pupil at Norden High School, Rishton, said: "The police in my view must reopen the case because who knows if this person has killed before or since.
"Having got away with it for so many years they may feel confident of doing it again.
"I am very much interested in this new development because I am aware from the media coverage prior to my arrest that Hampshire Police believed that there was a connection between the two cases."
He added: "Just prior to my release on bail the police came to take a DNA sample from me and they then cleared me from the Marion Croft inquiry completely.
"Why come and see me if they knew I was out of the country at the time and they don't believe there was a link between the two cases?
"It appears that this Tony Jasinskyj was operating all over the country from what has been said."
Peter is rebuilding his life in South London and is engaged to a woman he met at church.
He drifted into the Aldershot area in 1982 after being released from the army.
He originally confessed to the murders but it was later discovered he had attention-seeking disorder.
The judges branded the police's handling of the inquiry 'reprehensible' after it emerged officers had charged Peter with the murder even though he had an alibi.
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