Bolton News wrote:
Bolton hit-run killer tracked down in prison cell
9:02am Thursday 30th October 2008
By Paul Keaveny, Crime Reporter »
Bolton hit and run killer Daniel Taylor thought he had got away with it.
More than two years had passed since he had mowed down mother-of-two Laura Entwistle, smashing into her as she crossed the road after a night out with friends.
Just weeks after the fatal crash, Taylor had been jailed for burglary. He was due to be released, having served half of his four-year sentence.
Waking up on the morning of March 13, 2008, he believed he would be tasting freedom for the first time in two years, since being jailed in February, 2006.
But the walls of a prison cell were to close in on him once more, as detectives hunting for the killer of Laura had followed a trail of clues which led directly to him.
Tiny shards of glass, a fragment of smashed number plate, the forgotten account of a security guard and the testimony of a former girlfriend all combined to breath new life into a “dead end” investigation.
Taylor, aged 24, killed the popular mum as she crossed Wigan Road in Deane, following a party at the Rumworth Arms public house, at around 2.50am on January 21, 2006.
Driving at speeds of up to 66mph, Taylor hit Mrs Entwistle as she crossed the road.
The impact threw her onto the roof of the car and she was carried 50 metres along the road before her body landed near a bus stop close to the pub where, just minutes earlier, she had been laughing and joking with friends.
A manhunt for the hit-and-run driver, led by Det Chief Insp Paul Hitchen, of Bolton CID, was launched.
Forensic investigators pieced together tiny fragments of glass found at the crash scene and a piece of broken number plate which revealed part of a letter “C”.
Forensic scientist Andrew Mulley confirmed that the pieces of glass were part of a headlight and contained moulded serial numbers.
It was then discovered that the headlight must have originated from a Rover car, manufactured between October, 1989, and December, 1995.
Other bits of debris from the scene revealed that the part of the car’s windscreen and a side window or sunroof were also damaged in the smash.
Police checked 230 matching Rover models in the North-west, but 31 per cent were declared scrapped on the police national database. “For that reason we had to stop,” said Mr Hitchen.
“We actually had a number of lines of inquiry throughout the first year which turned out to be red herrings.” But a breakthrough was around the corner.
In February, 2007, police received an anonymous call through the Crimestoppers hotline relating to a possible accident in Wigan.
The call turned out to be of no use to the police, but Mr Hitchen began to re-evaluate the hit-and-run investigation and went back to all Greater Manchester Police divisions and neighbouring forces, asking about incidents involving Rover cars on the date of the crash.
“We had nothing else going for us, so all I did in response to that call was to go back and ask them to recheck all their systems relating to the night of he incident and that’s when we had a breakthrough.”
But a speed cam was erected at this site.. because of local clamours.
per pieces I quoted and now somewhere in archives. I do not have the time to search it out
He was caught and brought to some form of justice .. though given the history ...
One can only wonder at the illogic of the law at times
But he was only caught
because of old fashioned police work Per the fuller coverage in the Bolton News
This person has been jailed before for hit/run offences. He has been charged for driving whilst disqualified three times since 2004.
I have to say 6 years does not seem long enough in this case. .