Challenge to Soham Officer's Evidence

Birmingham Post (August 06, 2004)

Author: Nick Allen

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Soham detective Brian Stevens was dramatically challenged in court yesterday over his claim that he told Jessica Chapman's family she had been found dead.

Stevens (43), who is on trial at the Old Bailey for conspiring to pervert the course of justice, choked back tears in the witness box on Wednesday as he described how breaking the harrowing news to the Chapmans was part of his role as their family liaison officer.

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Challenge to Soham Officer's Evidence

His lawyer Godfrey Carey QC, had asked him: 'Your tasks included the duty of telling them their daughter had been found dead?' and Stevens dabbed his e...

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