Ladies' man Lennie Fulbirg charmed a succession of women at will.

But his tangled love life ended in his grisly death at the hands of his former lover and her violent partner.

Lennie had lived a colourful life, marrying four times and fathering at least 12 children with a string of wives and girlfriends. And he had a darker side, with allegations of child sex offences.

Lennie, one of six children, settled in Bradford in 1976 when he was 29, after serving a prison sentence for indecently exposing himself to a child.

He had the gift of the gab and, according to one former girlfriend, could "charm the birds out of the trees".

Lennie had an old-fashioned gipsy lifestyle. He was described as a wheeler-dealer who went to auctions, dealt in scrap and drove around as a rag and bone man. He loved animals: he was a horse dealer who kept a horse called Sabre and an Alsatian dog called Tanya.

He wore a leather hat and trilby and had a number of nicknames, including "Geordie", "Bob" and "Indian".

And his greatest passion was for women, who would regularly fall at his feet. In police interviews, Graham Haylett said Lennie could walk into a pub in dirty clothes, smelling of oil, and still charm the women.

Lennie's brother Robert, with whom he was living at the time he disappeared, said Lennie was a womaniser who "frequently arrived at the house with a new woman, then moved on to another one".

He met Tracey Cameron when she was still married. They later started an affair and had a daughter, Shauna-Leah, in 1994 while they were living together in Hyne Avenue, Bierley.

But he went on the run after being accused of indecently assaulting a girl in Keighley. He went to Bridlington where he lived with a woman, Donna Parkin, during the week and returned to Cameron at weekends.

In February 1996 he was remanded to Leeds Prison after giving himself up.

Haylett got to know Cameron through Lennie, who had taken him on to help him when he was jobless. Around the time Lennie was remanded in custody, Haylett and Cameron began an affair.

On August 1, 1996, Lennie was released from jail after the case against him fell through. He went to live with his brother in Buttershaw but Cameron regularly phoned him. A week later they met up.

His sister-in-law said that when he returned home in the early hours he was happy to have seen Cameron and said they were arranging to meet again soon.

On Sunday, August 11, he arranged to meet her at McDonald's in Rooley Lane.

Fit and healthy, he would walk everywhere and, after borrowing £5 from Robert, he set off at 7pm - washed, shaved and smartly dressed - through the pouring rain to the rendezvous. It was the last time he was seen alive.

Robert did not worry when his brother failed to return as Lennie would often disappear. He reported him missing later that month.

Haylett himself had had a string of girlfriends - and a history of violence. In 1989 he was given a suspended sentence for assault causing bodily harm after hitting his two-year-old daughter on the back and buttocks. He had convictions for threatening behaviour, stealing from an employer and making false statements to get benefits.

In June 2004, he threatened to kill neighbour Kathleen Mitchell with a baseball bat and burn her house down in a row over a tax disc. Extremely scared, she described him as "like a madman". He told former girlfriend Carrie Webster he enjoyed seeing fear in people's faces when he was violent towards them. Once he grabbed her by the throat and threw a chair at her and once he picked up a sword and stood turning its handle in the bedroom. A workmate was so frightened when Haylett threatened him he left his job the same day.

Another former girlfriend, Valerie Leach, said his mood swings were "unbelievable"; he would even become violent if he did not like something on TV.

Cameron had made false declarations to get Incapacity Benefit by claiming she could not walk more than 20 metres. But she was videoed walking normally and working at the Hot Lips massage parlour.

She told police everybody was scared of Lennie. But she said: "He called me his princess, baby and angel. He was nice, sweet, charming, a free spirit. He made me feel good about myself, he looked after me. There was always food in the house and it was always warm."

It was love letters between Cameron and Haylett that revealed the plot to kill Lennie. The mother-of-three wrote to her boyfriend four days before Lennie disappeared: "It will be over soon and we can come home to start a proper family life. We have to be focused on why we are doing this. Let it end tomorrow night."