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A FRESH police probe could be launched into the prime suspect in the shocking 1978 murder of schoolgirl Genette Tate, according to reports.

Police may launch a new probe into Robert Black over the 1978 disappearance of Genette Tate [PA]

Detectives have long suspected serial child-killer Robert Black of murdering 13-year-old Genette, who was last seen in a rural lane in Aylesbeare, Devon, in 1978, but whose body has never been found.
But new hopes of prosecuting Black were triggered after he lost an appeal against his latest conviction for the murder of nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy, last year.
Black's lawyers had argued that his trial was prejudiced because details about three other child murders for which he had already been jailed were revealed to the jury.
Police say they are now reportedly in talks with the Crown Prosecution Service's Complex Case Unit to see if the Appeal Court ruling has "any bearing on the Genette Tate case".
The move could pave the way for police to reboot the case against Black, based on his previous convictions.
Genette's father, John Tate, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that he hoped police had not overlooked any other suspect by focusing excessively on Black.
Asked how he had coped in the decades since Genette went missing, Mr Tate said the incident was never far from his mind.
"You look at everything - that it could possibly be to do with her. You just cope very poorly sometimes."
Mr Tate said he believed the police had worked well on the case, adding: "I haven't been disenchanted with them apart from their lack of contact sometimes, but what do you do?"
Devon and Cornwall Police earlier said they were "liaising with the Complex Case Unit of the Crown Prosecution Service to ascertain if the 2013 Court of Appeal judgement, following the murder of Jennifer Cardy in Northern Ireland, has any bearing on the Genette Tate case".
The force added: "This liaison is still at a very early stage and will take some time to complete."
Black was found guilty in 1994 of three child murders committed in the 1980s.
He killed 11-year-old Susan Maxwell, from the Scottish Borders, five-year-old Caroline Hogg, from Edinburgh, and Sarah Harper, 10, from Morley, near Leeds.
His reign of terror finally ended in 1990 when he was caught red-handed with a six-year-girl hooded, bound, gagged and stuffed in a sleeping bag in the back of his van in the Scottish village of Stow.
He had sexually assaulted her only moments earlier.
In 2012 he was convicted of a fourth murder, that of Jennifer, who was snatched as she cycled to a friend's house in Ballinderry, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, in 1981.
The paedophile is serving a total of 12 life sentences for murder and kidnap.