Former teacher Sion Jenkins claims he has identified a possible new suspect for the murder of his teenage foster daughter 11 years after her killing at the family home.
Jenkins claims he spoke to someone he thought was a dark-haired, plain-clothed police officer in his hallway in the confused hour after Billie-Jo Jenkins was found bludgeoned to death.
But now, coinciding with the publication of his book, the Murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins, Jenkins says he believes he may have come face to face with her murderer.
Billie-Jo, 13, was found in a pool of blood with head injuries inflicted by a metal tent peg on the patio of the family's large Victorian home in Lower Park Road, Hastings, East Sussex, on February 15, 1997.
Jenkins, at the time headteacher-designate at all-boys William Parker School in Hastings, has maintained his innocence and insisted Billie-Jo must have been killed by an intruder while he visited a DIY store.
In 1998 he was convicted at Lewes Crown Court of murdering her and jailed for life but had a retrial in 2005 after successfully appealing. However, the jury failed to agree a verdict and a second retrial ended the same way in 2006, allowing him to walk free.
Speaking to the Daily Mail on Saturday on his belief of a possible new suspect, Jenkins said: "In my statement, I talk about being in the hall and talking to a police officer.
"I say he was not in uniform, but I was aware he was a police officer, so he must have told me that. Everyone else I describe in my witness statement - the uniformed officer, the female police sergeant, the ambulance man - gave their own witness statements, but this man I describe has never been traced.
"It has only struck me as I researched the book. I would like the police to issue a photo-fit and find him."
Sussex Police said on Saturday it would not comment directly on the book.
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