Widow Jackie Leeming has vowed to fight until the day she dies to find her husband's killer.

Jackie Leeming: "Some people think you are still guilty"

Speaking to the Evening Press after the third anniversary of his brutal murder in the garage of their former home in Haxby, Jackie revealed that she and her daughter, Jayne, have been "snooping round" and asking questions in search of information to help police track down Geoffrey's assailant.

Jackie, who together with Jayne and her son, Stephen, was accused of plotting to kill Mr Leeming until magistrates threw out the charge last year, says she has her own theories about who killed her husband, and she wants justice for him.

She said: "British justice is supposed to be 'innocent until proven guilty' - totally incorrect, it's 'guilty until proven innocent'.

"Even then, mud sticks and some people think you are still guilty."

Jackie also claimed that:

A week after Geoffrey was murdered, someone tried to break into the garage, but police never told the public. "Who returned to the garage and for what reason?"

She offered Supt John Lacy, who led the murder investigation, a £10,000 reward one day for information leading to the conviction of the murderer. "I got arrested at 7am next morning," she claimed.

Jackie spoke out after Saturday's Evening Press reported an appeal for fresh information by Supt Lacy, amid comments that the murder investigation was far from over.

She said: "I say to Mr Lacy - I am available to be questioned and give any help I can to find who took the life of Jeff.

"I would like to take this opportunity to ask anyone who knows anything at all to contact Mr Lacy - even just a little thing - it may be of some help.

"If it takes me to the day I die to find the killer - which I hope it will not - then so be it."

Supt Lacy today welcomed Mrs Leeming's appeal for assistance in the inquiry, and said she had been fully co-operative at every stage to the police.

He confirmed that there had been an attempted break-in to the Leeming's garage after the murder. An operational decision had been made at the time not to make this public.

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