Seeking justice
BBC One’s Crimewatch Roadshow Live programme has featured a new reconstruction of the last known movements of former postman Paul Savage, who was murdered in North Wales 15 years ago.
Paul was delivering the early morning mail in Clayton Road, Mold, when he was killed on 4 February 2003. No one has ever been charged with his murder but police are hoping new forensics may give them a fresh lead.
Paul was struck several times over the head with a wooden club, believed to have been fashioned from a banister rail. The 30 year-old father-of-one was left with a fractured skull and jaw and died in Wrexham Maelor Hospital later that morning.
Witnesses reported seeing two young men wearing hoodies near where Paul had left his bicycle about the time the attack took place. The pair were seen heading towards Mold town centre.
Despite a huge police inquiry, appeals to the local community and a £100,000 Royal Mail reward, his killers have never been brought to trial.
Earlier this year, police announced they would be reviewing the forensic evidence, in the hope that advances in DNA would offer some vital new clue. Welcoming the news June White, Paul’s mother, who has continued to campaign for her son’s killers to be brought to justice, renewed her own pleas.
She told the Daily Post: ‘Somebody out there knows who killed my son and what happened. I just ask what kind of mother or grandmother can harbour their son who has left a wife without a husband and a little girl without her daddy? What kind of sister, cousin or friend can live with themselves? How can they? How can they sleep at night?
‘Somebody knows who murdered my son. I will never give up. I won’t.’
Detective Superintendent Iestyn Davies, of North Wales Police’s major incident team, said: ‘The investigation into an unsolved murder is never closed and we will continue to explore any new evidence or intelligence that may bring justice to Paul’s family.
‘We will also explore any advances in DNA evidence and to this end I have recently asked our crime scene manager to conduct a further review of the forensic material gathered, to establish the possibility of any fresh evidence being obtained.’
Mr Davies said he remained convinced the key to solving the case lay in the community: ‘I understand people are sometimes reluctant to come forward years after such a serious crime, but I’d like to reassure them we are only interested in securing that vital piece of information that will help bring this investigation to a positive conclusion.’
