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Article: Police dismiss link with murderer in Genette Tate case
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- Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2007
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Police have dismissed reports that they are planning to interview
a new suspect about the unsolved disappearance of Devon schoolgirl
Genette Tate 29 years ago.
The 13-year-old is believed to have been murdered after she was
snatched while doing her paper round in Aylesbeare, near Exeter, on
August 19, 1978.
The case, which has frustrated detectives for nearly three
decades, is Britain's longest-running missing person inquiry.
Reports on Sunday's 29th anniversary of Genette's disappearance
suggested that convicted rapist and murderer Peter Tobin has emerged
as a "viable suspect" in the case.
Tobin, a convicted paedophile, was found guilty earlier this year
of killing Polish student Angelika ...