Post by Angel on Nov 20, 2010 16:06:41 GMT -5
A MAN was under arrest last night after a teenager who was allegedly “groomed” on the social networking site Facebook was found murdered and dumped in a ditch.
The 32-year-old was stopped in his car when a routine police check revealed the vehicle was uninsured.
He is then reported to have led police to a spot off a lonely lover’s lane near a Little Chef restaurant where college student Ashleigh Hall’s lifeless body was found.
The 17-year-old is believed to have met a man in an online chatroom and then arranged a clandestine face-to-face meeting.
Her attacker is believed to have gagged her with gaffer tape in a car and killed her.
The arrested man was spoken to by chance after driving past a police vehicle on the A177 dual carriageway near Sedgefield, Co Durham – just a few hundred yards from where the girl’s body was found.
Yesterday Ashleigh’s friends said she had spoken of having met someone over the Internet who had claimed to be a 16-year-old boy.
The youngster, who was studying childcare at her local further education college, was said to be bubbly, outgoing and popular.
Last night the officer leading the inquiry Detective Chief Inspector Paul Harker said that the tragedy should serve as a terrible warning about the dangers lurking on the Internet.
“I would say to parents and to children ‘Please, please, please be absolutely sure who you are talking to’,” he said.
“Never agree to meet somebody outside unless you are absolutely sure who they are.”
Danny Fisher, 17, a fellow student at Darlington College said: “She had been talking with a man on Facebook. He told her he was 16.”
www.express.co.uk/posts/view/136637/Girl-found-murdered-in-field-after-meeting-man-on-internet
The 32-year-old was stopped in his car when a routine police check revealed the vehicle was uninsured.
He is then reported to have led police to a spot off a lonely lover’s lane near a Little Chef restaurant where college student Ashleigh Hall’s lifeless body was found.
The 17-year-old is believed to have met a man in an online chatroom and then arranged a clandestine face-to-face meeting.
Her attacker is believed to have gagged her with gaffer tape in a car and killed her.
The arrested man was spoken to by chance after driving past a police vehicle on the A177 dual carriageway near Sedgefield, Co Durham – just a few hundred yards from where the girl’s body was found.
Yesterday Ashleigh’s friends said she had spoken of having met someone over the Internet who had claimed to be a 16-year-old boy.
The youngster, who was studying childcare at her local further education college, was said to be bubbly, outgoing and popular.
Last night the officer leading the inquiry Detective Chief Inspector Paul Harker said that the tragedy should serve as a terrible warning about the dangers lurking on the Internet.
“I would say to parents and to children ‘Please, please, please be absolutely sure who you are talking to’,” he said.
“Never agree to meet somebody outside unless you are absolutely sure who they are.”
Danny Fisher, 17, a fellow student at Darlington College said: “She had been talking with a man on Facebook. He told her he was 16.”
www.express.co.uk/posts/view/136637/Girl-found-murdered-in-field-after-meeting-man-on-internet