[1] Voisey's conviction also sparked a review of the multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA), which govern the monitoring of past offenders.
Initially, police only had the girl's eyewitness account of a "man in a red car" identified by her as a Vauxhall Astra, with no other witnesses present.
[2] The only forensic evidence the police could obtain was a footprint in the bathroom, and a partial DNA trace from the girl's fingernail.
Through careful interview with the girl, it was ascertained from the route she was driven, that the offender had a good knowledge of the local area.
Police were first aware of him as a sneak thief, committing high risk burglaries with a chance of discovery,[2] but in 2001, he had been convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in a swimming pool changing room in Cheshire.