During the trial at Sheffield Crown Court, Ms Westerman told the jury that Capp had threatened her when she went round to the defendant’s house to “smooth the waters” regarding a neighbourly dispute over a cat She said that Capp had blamed her that Carr was in prison “She said I was a f****** liar. Judge John Reddihough delayed sentencing Capp for pre-sentence reports, but warned the 61-year-old he would consider “all the options”, including a custodial sentence. The judge granted Capp bail on condition she assisted the probation service with its pre-sentence report Capp was found guilty by a majority of 10-2. The jury was told that Capp threatened mother-of-three Ms Westerman during a confrontation at the defendant’s home in Grimsby.

The jury, of six women and six men, took just over four hours at Sheffield Crown Court to find Capp guilty of one charge of intimidating a witness. Capp, wearing a light grey trouser suit, showed no emotion as the verdict was read out. The mother of Maxine Carr was today found guilty of intimidating a witness in the Soham murder trial. A 15-year-old schoolgirl today lost her High Court battle for the right to wear traditional Muslim dress in the classroom.
Shabina Begum said she was being denied her “right to education and to manifest her religious beliefs”.But lawyers for the head teacher and governors of Denbigh High School, Luton, raised fears that a win for Shabina could cause unwelcome divisions among pupils, as well as health and safety risks.Some Muslim girls might be regarded as “better Muslims” than others, a judge was told in a test case with important implications for multi-faith schools across the country.. Based in one country, such as France, Britain, Spain or the United States, he would disappear for weeks at a time to visit other countries to offend.Police may investigate the activities of Montes during the time he lived in Britain, in the Earls Court area of London in the early 1990s.. Montes was already a convicted rapist with a record for breaking into youth hostels when he killed Caroline.Sources close to the case condemned the lack of global DNA records which might have led to him being caught sooner.One officer involved in the French team, which helped to co-ordinate the murder hunt and eventually conducted nearly 4,000 DNA tests after criticism of a bungled initial inquiry, said: “When Montes struck, the information was already out there that he was a dangerous sex attacker But it was hidden under a mountain of bureaucracy. He has done nothing except wander around from youth hostel to youth hostel, looking for young girls of 13 years of age to rape, looking for a few seconds of sexual satisfaction.”Montes told French police that he was high on a mixture of whisky and antidepressants which made him “feel like Superman” when he attacked Caroline, who was on a trip with classmates from Launceston Community College in Cornwall.A post-mortem examination report revealed that the teenager had suffered several internal injuries.But as Montes was led from the dock, there was last night little sign of a conclusive end to the long quest for justice for the Dickinson family.

“What has this man done with his life? He has done nothing positive in his life. “The victim died following an act of constraint and violence. It wasn’t an accident, it was a tragedy, an exceptional tragedy but it was not wanted by Montes.”But it was clear that Montes’s actions in Pleine Foug?s were not an aberration.Montes, a slight, wiry figure wasted from his previous muscular form by three years on remand waiting for his trial, has a history of at least 10 serious sexual assaults on women on two continents between 1974 and 2001, many of them in youth hostels.When he was arrested five years ago at a hostel in Miami Beach, Florida, he was found to have a small pair of silver scissors, which he used to cut away his victims’ underwear as they slept.Francois Rene-Aubray, the state prosecutor, said the Spaniard had devoted his life to sex crime. It has never lost its impact on our family.”The guilty verdicts came at the end of a trial which cast disturbing light not only on the nature of the defendant’s crimes but also the ability of police forces worldwide to catch border-hopping sexual criminals.Montes, 54, struck in the early hours of 18 July 1996, when he entered the youth hostel in the Breton village of Pleine Foug?s unchallenged and entered the dormitory where Caroline was sleeping on a mattress on the floor.Olivier Dersoir, the lawyer representing Montes, insisted that his client had not meant to kill. She was doing exceptionally well at school and was well respected by her friends and teachers.”There have been times when I have been down and at the end of my tether, but I have never felt like giving up.”I have found the strength from somewhere to keep on keeping on, and I am sure I would have carried on for the rest of my life,” he said.He said he and his former wife, who is a nurse, had grown accustomed to dealing with the loss of Caroline, but added: “It never goes away. Jenny, in her first words in public since her sister’s death said: “We would like to say that all our thoughts and hopes are with all of the other families who are also seeking justice for the loved ones that they have lost.”In the absence of the Dickinsons, a civil hearing was held after the verdict where Montes was ordered to pay €35,000 (£24,000) to each of Caroline’s parents and €25,000 to Jenny, as well as court costs of €15,000.Earlier, Mr Dickinson had described how he had never given up hope that his daughter’s killer would be found.”Caroline would have been 21, coming up to 22 in October,” Mr Dickinson said.”She had her life taken away when she was 13.”She was a lovely girl with a great future ahead of her.

We will now start the process of rebuilding our lives.”Mr Dickinson thanked the family’s supporters and “acknowledged” that there were other victims of Montes “some of whom gave evidence at the trial”.Mr Dickinson also read a brief statement from Jenny, who had returned to England before the verdict. We have some wonderful memories that we will cherish and she will never be forgotten.”Mr Dickinson said: “The events of the last week have been for us a necessary but draining experience, as of course has the pursuit of justice for Caroline over the last eight years. I’m speaking on behalf of Sue, Jenny [his 19-year-old daughter] and myself.”The first thing to say is this is all about Caroline or ‘Caz’ as some of her friends knew her. Although her life was short, she was happy, we knew she had a life ahead of her full of promise.