The man who has not being named by police is from Colwyn Bay where

The man, who has not being named by police, is from Colwyn Bay, where the child was kidnapped from a garden. He is also charged with an “unrelated criminal offence”.
Police in Llandudno last night confirmed he was the same suspect they had held in custody for the last four days. After being detained and questioned for almost 96 hours he was released from custody yesterday afternoon, only to be immediately rearrested on what police called “another matter”.The charges are believed to follow the discovery of the missing items of clothing belonging to the dead girl.Shortly before the charge was announced, police taped off an area three- quarters of a mile from the garden where Sophie was last seen alive.Police have staged a huge hunt for clues, carrying out a painstaking finger-tip search of the fields behind the garden where Sophie was last seen alive. Her body was found on a beach at Llandudno, Gwynedd by a walker at 7.15am on Sunday.

She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.After the ordeal of this week’s emotional public appeals by Sophie’s parents, Christopher and Julie, Det Ch Insp John Williams paid tribute to the couple’s determination and bravery. “We are very, very grateful for what they have done,” he said.Boy murdered, page 2. It must have been a lovely sweater for John Lennon to want it so badly: hand-knit, in a pure canary yellow, with twiddly woollen motifs

Imagine the scene: two Liverpudlian art students listening to Buddy Holly records (this was 1959) and haggling over a yellow sweater “I really want it,” says John. “It would be so damn cool to wear to tomorrow night’s gig.” “Weeeell .. ” says Helen “Go on,” says John “I’ll swap you my sketchbook.”
That clinched it. Helen Anderson, 16, peeled off her yellow sweater, and John Lennontook out his secondary school sketchbook, and they swapped.Not a bad investment, as yellow sweaters go.

The jumper has probably long ago unravelled, but the sketchbook is still very much here – and valued at up to pounds 120,000 by Sotheby’s, which is scheduled to auction it on 14 September. Ms Anderson, now a Cheshire fashion designer, has finally decided to sell because it has become so valuable.Yet she has cherished it ever since the days at Liverpool Art College when she took in Lennon’s trousers to make them into drainpipes and watched him play impromptu concerts with a boy called Paul McCartney.For fans of the Beatle shot dead in New York in 1980 there could hardly be a more precious item. The sketchbook contains 21 cartoons of Lennon’s teachers and fellow pupils at Quarry Bank High School, and his own self- portrait aged 15.Many teenagers would have had visions of themselves as the Elvis-type, but young Lennon was brutally honest. “Simply a simple pimple shortsighted John Wimple Lennon”, he captioned the self-portrait, squinting behind horn-rims with a quiff. The cartoons brilliantly catch the spirit of his teachers and friends.