A sex offender has been convicted of murdering a seven-year-old girl after escaping justice for more than 30 years
Boyd, aged 25 at the time of the killing, denied murder but refused to go into the witness box to give evidence. Prosecutors said Nikki must have known her killer to willingly follow him - grainy CCTV showed a male adult being trailed by a child. Locals told police they heard piercing screams on the night Nikki was killed.
And the tight-knit community helped officers, who carried out an overnight search when it was realised the schoolgirl was missing. The next morning, Nikki's shoes and coat were found outside the dockside warehouse - with her body found in the basement. Her blood was discovered outside the only entry point, a boarded-up window about six feet off the ground.
Investigators believe Boyd must have hit Nikki outside the building, then lifted her inside and carried out his monstrous attack, during which he left traces of DNA on her clothes. Seven years later, Boyd indecently assaulted a nine-year-old girl in a Teesside park. He already had a conviction for breach of the peace in 1986 after asking an underage girl for a kiss. He told his probation officer he had fantasised about naked"young girls". In 2017, advances in DNA techniques allowed police to re-examine Nikki's case and extract samples from her clothing.
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