Police apology over Babes in Wood case

Published date18 April 2024
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway were sexually assaulted and strangled in woodland in Brighton, East Sussex, by paedophile Russell Bishop

Yesterday, Chief Constable of

Sussex Police Jo Shiner said there were failings in the original investigation in 1986, and that Nicola's father Barrie should not have been arrested as part of a connected investigation in 2009.

Bishop was acquitted at the end of his first trial in December 1987 due to weaknesses in the case presented by police and prosecutors, and lies told by his ex-girlfriend, who was later jailed for perjury. After his acquittal he kidnapped...

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