Who Really Murdered Claire Tiltman?
Was Claire Tiltman's Real Killer Convicted? 16-year-old Claire was murdered on January 18th 1993 Claire Tiltman's murder investigation was not completed until some twenty-one years after she was killed. On December 12th 2014 Colin Ash-Smith was convicted of her murder, based on circumstantial evidence and previous bad character reference only, not a scrap of physical evidence exists to indicate that he was in fact the killer. The question here is, was the right man convicted of the murder of 16-year-old Claire Tiltman or was it indeed someone else? Let's have a delve into the case and draw our own conclusion. Claire Tiltman was murdered, just four days after her 16th birthday on January 18th 1993 in a town called Greenhithe, in Kent, England. S he was 16-years-old and a pupil at Dartford Grammar School for Girls. She made a short cut on her way to a friend's house to study and was brutally murdered by being stabbed at least forty times in a vicious and frenzied atta...