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Serial Killer Documentary - Russell Bishop · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: In October nineteen eighty six, nine year old friends Nicola
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Speaker 1: Fellows and Karen had Away disappeared while playing near their
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Speaker 1: homes in Brighton, England.
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Speaker 2: They were just seen being little girls around the estate,
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Speaker 2: nothing extraordinary at all until that point when they disappeared
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Speaker 2: off the face of the earth.
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Speaker 1: The following day, the bodies of the two young girls
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Speaker 1: were discovered. The police had a prime suspect, twenty year
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Speaker 1: old Russell Bishop, but at his trial a year later,
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Speaker 1: the killer walked away scot free.
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Speaker 3: Anyone with half a brain would have been careful never
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Speaker 3: to do it again, and yet he does it again.
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Speaker 1: After attempting to kill a third young girl in nineteen ninety.
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Speaker 1: Bishop would eventually face justice in twenty eighteen, thirty two
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Speaker 1: years after the murder of Nicola and Karen the abes
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Speaker 1: in the Wood.
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Speaker 4: Evil, insignificant, arrogant, is a creature. He's horrible, absolutely horrible.
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Speaker 1: Russell Bishop had finally been unmasked as one of the
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Speaker 1: world's most evil killers. In December twenty eighteen, Russell Bishop
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Speaker 1: was serving time in Franklin Maximum Security prison for the abduction,
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Speaker 1: sexual assault, and attempted murder of a seven year old
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Speaker 1: girl in nineteen ninety, investigators were certain the fifty two
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Speaker 1: year old was also responsible for the nineteen eighty six
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Speaker 1: murders of nine year old friends Nicola Fellows and Karen
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Speaker 1: had Away, but in nineteen eighty seven Bishop had been
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Speaker 1: found not guilty of their murders.
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Speaker 2: There was a huge shock within the police when Bishop
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Speaker 2: was acquitted of killing Nicola and Karen. The investigation had
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Speaker 2: been carried out so professionally and so assiduously, so when
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Speaker 2: the jury returned with not guilty verdicts, everyone was just stunned.
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Speaker 2: It just really rocked the whole police to the corps.
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Speaker 2: We just thought, what could possibly have gone wrong?
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Speaker 5: We knew that it was Bishop. Everybody knew that it
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Speaker 5: was Bishop, yet he'd walked.
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Speaker 1: Free since then. Graham Bartlett had studied Russell Bishop's career
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Speaker 1: of crime.
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Speaker 2: When I was a very young detective Brighton, I became
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Speaker 2: involved in the second investigation into Russell Bishop. As a
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Speaker 2: result of that, I became very aware of the case
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Speaker 2: that had gone on before, in the injustice that had
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Speaker 2: been served through the acquittals. So I became fascinated with
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Speaker 2: the case, and as my career took off, I became
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Speaker 2: constantly involved in terms of just being aware and also
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Speaker 2: when I was the divisional commander of Brighton and how
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Speaker 2: this cloud over the whole policing of the city that
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Speaker 2: we hadn't delivered justice for those two girls.
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Speaker 1: This killer's story begins in Brighton, on the south coast
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Speaker 1: of England. Russell Bishop was born in February nineteen sixty six.
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Speaker 1: One of five brothers. Bishop had a troublesome time growing up.
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Speaker 6: Bishop had difficulties at school in terms of his learning.
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Speaker 6: He was dyslexic, so he was sent through a series
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Speaker 6: of different special schools and he ran away a lot.
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Speaker 6: So this says to me that from quite a young age,
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Speaker 6: this is somebody who thinks that the rules don't apply
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Speaker 6: to them. They simply don't want to follow them.
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Speaker 1: As a teenager, Bishop struggled to stay on the straight
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Speaker 1: and narrow.
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Speaker 3: The first brushes he has with the law offer mundane offenses,
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Speaker 3: a driving offense in nineteen eighty three when he's seventeen,
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Speaker 3: a burglary offense in nineteen eighty four when he's eighteen,
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Speaker 3: and then in nineteen eighty five he's convicted of more
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Speaker 3: burglaries and is given one hundred and fifty hours of
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Speaker 3: community service. He's bumping along at the bottom of the
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Speaker 3: law in a very minor way.
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Speaker 2: He would smoke drugs, he would carry out theft, burglaries,
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Speaker 2: low level burglaries, steal from cars, just.
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Speaker 5: Really the run of the mill, irritant on the estate.
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Speaker 1: To try and fit in with his friends. Bishop would
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Speaker 1: embellish his criminal accomplishments.
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Speaker 3: He has a bit of a ponchamp for bigging himself up.
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Speaker 3: I mean he likes to say, oh, oh, I'm a
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Speaker 3: master criminal. Absolute nonsense. I mean he might have tried
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Speaker 3: to steal the odd car, but on a scale of
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Speaker 3: one to ten, he's a zero. He's no master criminal
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Speaker 3: at all.
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Speaker 6: Bishop was a compulsive liar. He would lie about sexual conquests,
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Speaker 6: how many women he'd slept with, the kind of criminal
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Speaker 6: activity that he'd been involved in. So he's somebody who's
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Speaker 6: very concerned with what other people think of him and
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Speaker 6: essentially giving a performance. So he will embellish, he will exaggerate,
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Speaker 6: he will report what he wants to have happened rather
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Speaker 6: than what's actually happened.
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Speaker 1: By nineteen eighty six, twenty year old Bishop was living
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Speaker 1: in Mullscombe, a suburb of Brighton.
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Speaker 2: At the time he was living with his common law wife.
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Speaker 2: His girlfriend had a child by her, but also was
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Speaker 2: seeing a sixteen year old girl and having a sexual
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Speaker 2: relationship with her. In some ways he did show that
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Speaker 2: he preferred younger girls, but nothing at all has come
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Speaker 2: out then or now that would suggest that he was
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Speaker 2: a pedophile.
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Speaker 1: On the afternoon of the ninth of October nineteen eighty six,
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Speaker 1: nine year olds Nicola Fellows and Karen had Away had
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Speaker 1: come home from school and were playing on the green
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Speaker 1: outside their homes in.
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Speaker 3: Bullscom Everybody can pretty much see them through the window.
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Speaker 3: It's late afternoon and there are a group of girls,
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Speaker 3: not just two. After an hour, maybe forty five minutes,
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Speaker 3: Nikola and Karen split off from the rest of the
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Speaker 3: group and go in search of something else to do.
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Speaker 3: At about six point fifteen, the girls are seen outside
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Speaker 3: the fish and chip shop with a bag of chips
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Speaker 3: each and walking. Nothing all that unusual in that except
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Speaker 3: that by then both Nicholas and Karen's mother are becoming
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Speaker 3: rather concerned. When Karen didn't come home for tea, which
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Speaker 3: is something that she always do when had my master.
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Speaker 3: Both parents started to get worried, started to have a
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Speaker 3: look round, phone around friends and try and find where
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Speaker 3: they are.
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Speaker 2: And they were drawing a blank in this sort of
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Speaker 2: a state, in any sort of a state in you know,
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Speaker 2: certainly in my childhood too, it wasn't unusual for kids
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Speaker 2: to go missing for you know, a couple of hours
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Speaker 2: or so. The evenings were still light. But something about
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Speaker 2: them go missing and not being seen nobody knew where
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Speaker 2: they were. That really people's worries about what was it?
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Speaker 2: What had happened to these two little girls.
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Speaker 1: Throughout the evening. There had been various sightings of the
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Speaker 1: girls around the estate and in nearby Wild Park.
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Speaker 3: The last time the two girls are seen is heading
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Speaker 3: towards Wild Park with their bags of chips and in
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Speaker 3: the same vicinity had around the same time. There's also
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Speaker 3: a sighting there of Russell Bishop.
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Speaker 1: Bishop knew both girls through his friends and neighbors in
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Speaker 1: the world.
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Speaker 5: It's a very close knit community.
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Speaker 2: Bishop used to play for Barry Fellows football team. He
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Speaker 2: was a goalkeeper in Barry Fellows football team, so knew
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Speaker 2: the Fellows through.
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Speaker 5: That that way.
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Speaker 2: Also his girlfriend at the time that knew the hadaways,
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Speaker 2: so he got to know them through that means. Really,
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Speaker 2: but Moulscome is one of these places where people literally
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Speaker 2: know everybody.
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Speaker 1: By eight point thirty pm, night had fallen and the
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Speaker 1: girls still hadn't returned home. Their worried parents decided to
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Speaker 1: call the police.
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Speaker 2: When the officers drove into Newitt Road to go and
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Speaker 2: see the parents, immediately they sent something was different. They
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Speaker 2: both policed Mulscoom for a while, they'd been to these
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Speaker 2: kind of calls before, but the number of people out
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Speaker 2: on the street, the little huddles of concerned faces trying
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Speaker 2: to work out what was going on. Immediately they picked
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Speaker 2: up on that a.
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Speaker 1: Police search begin and for the two nine year old friends.
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Speaker 2: It's difficult when you're either commanding or taking part in
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Speaker 2: the search such as this, because your overriding emotion must
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Speaker 2: be hope. You must hope that you're going to find
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Speaker 2: these girls alive, find Nichola and Karen, bring them back
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Speaker 2: to their mum and dads. But in fact, the longer
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Speaker 2: it went on, the less likely that was becoming.
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Speaker 1: The girl's parents. The police and the whole community were
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Speaker 1: desperate to find Nicola and Karen alive. It was cold
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Speaker 1: and dark, but the search continued until two am, when
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Speaker 1: it resumed later that morning. Detective Constable John Morton was
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Speaker 1: one of the huge number of police that had been
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Speaker 1: drafted in to help.
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Speaker 7: The briefing started at nine o'clock and at that stage
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Speaker 7: we had all available uniform personnel at Brighton engaged and
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Speaker 7: the search had been ramped up considerably in an effort
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Speaker 7: to find the girls.
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Speaker 1: Police Constable Paul Smith had also reported for duty. He
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Speaker 1: was tasked with searching homes in the area near Wild Park.
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Speaker 8: We were doing every single house parallel to the park
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Speaker 8: and beyond. This is a massive estate and I think
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Speaker 8: there was sort of thirty forty guys involved. You knock
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Speaker 8: on the door, we say, look, we've got two little
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Speaker 8: girls gone missing. Can I search your house? And every
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Speaker 8: single person they said, every one of them said you know,
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Speaker 8: please come in.
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Speaker 2: Hope was always there, but actually this dread that something
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Speaker 2: awful had happened to them was starting to grow in
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Speaker 2: people's minds.
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Speaker 1: Members of the public also joined in the search for
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Speaker 1: Nicola and Karen. One of the Mulescomb residents was twenty
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Speaker 1: year old Russell Bishop.
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Speaker 5: He was searching around with everybody else.
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Speaker 2: He got in a car at one point and went
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Speaker 2: to the back of the park, but was constantly putting
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Speaker 2: him in or about the center of the search. Just
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Speaker 2: wanted to be kept coming back to our park, kept
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Speaker 2: wanting to talk to officers.
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Speaker 6: Bishop literally can't help himself, and as with many narcissists,
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Speaker 6: he wants to be right in the middle of everything.
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Speaker 6: He can't step back from something, he can't be quiet,
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Speaker 6: and any kind of attention, whether that's positive or whether
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Speaker 6: that's negative, is something that he will value. So he
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Speaker 6: places himself right in the middle of this drama that
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Speaker 6: he's created.
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Speaker 1: When Paul Smith continued with his search for the nine
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Speaker 1: year old girls in Wild Park, Russell Bishop was already
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Speaker 1: on the scene with his dog.
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Speaker 8: We were sort of talking about searching, you know, looking
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Speaker 8: for the girls, and he was quite negative about that.
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Speaker 8: He said, I've been searching all day. My dog knows him,
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Speaker 8: he's a good tracker, and I've decided to give up.
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Speaker 8: I've been doing it all day. And I said, well,
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Speaker 8: we've got to keep looking, got to find him. You know,
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Speaker 8: if we find him, rush him to hospital and have
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Speaker 8: him checked over, and then they'll be back with the
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Speaker 8: mums and dads sort of thing. And he said, oh, well,
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Speaker 8: I'm not doing that. He said, because if I found
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Speaker 8: them and they're dead. I get arrested one out for
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Speaker 8: killing them. With my background and the fact I'm being
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Speaker 8: in trouble with the police, I'll get nicked. And I said, no,
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Speaker 8: you won't. You've just got to give a statement, you know.
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Speaker 1: At around four pm, police officer Paul and local resident
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Speaker 1: Bishop were still searching for the girls, who'd now been
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Speaker 1: missing for almost twenty four hours.
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Speaker 8: We were sort of walking towards Wild Park by this
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Speaker 8: time into our part and there was a shout from
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Speaker 8: a boy and he said, we found them. We found them.
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Speaker 8: We went rushing off towards them, and I had wet
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Speaker 8: weather trousers, ons had been raining, I had a long raincoat,
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Speaker 8: I had boots, so I was a bit slower than
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Speaker 8: he was. And I said to Bishop, look, you run
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Speaker 8: on ahead, and if they're there, you keep them away
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Speaker 8: from the girls. And you keep away from the girls.
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Speaker 1: Paul Smith arrived just after Bishop. Nightmare that everyone was
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Speaker 1: dreading had become a reality.
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Speaker 8: I kept them away. It was about twelve thirteen feet
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Speaker 8: away from where the girls were, and I could see
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Speaker 8: that they were They looked dead. I went across to
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Speaker 8: them and I took the pulse and sorry I still
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Speaker 8: get to me, I took the pulse and there were
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Speaker 8: stone cold, dead like pieces of marble.
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Speaker 1: The two teens who'd found the girls told Detective Constable
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Speaker 1: John Morton that no one apart from Paul Smith had
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Speaker 1: gone anywhere near the bodies. But Russell Bishop had a
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Speaker 1: totally different story.
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Speaker 7: He said to me that he had been searching with
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Speaker 7: the other two along this path and they'd come to
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Speaker 7: a fallen tree which they had to cross, and that
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Speaker 7: he had crossed the tree, gone to the girls and
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Speaker 7: sinned that they were both dead. And to verify that,
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Speaker 7: he said he took a pulse from both girls at
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Speaker 7: the neck. Frankly, I was so staggered by what he
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Speaker 7: said that I sat down immediately and wrote down what.
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Speaker 5: He told me in my notebook.
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Speaker 8: You know, it was nothing to him, you know, like
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Speaker 8: you swat a fly and then you get rid of it.
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Speaker 8: It was like that he was just not bothered. There
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Speaker 8: was no emotion. You know, I would have expected him,
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Speaker 8: because he knew him to be like, oh my god,
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Speaker 8: you know, even if you're in shock. But nothing there
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Speaker 8: at all, just not you know, it was if it
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Speaker 8: could have been a dead dog.
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Speaker 6: The police were suspicious of bishop from the beginning, because
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Speaker 6: he was overly enthusiastic and some of the information that
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Speaker 6: he was sharing really didn't stack up. So he claimed
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Speaker 6: to have checked the girl's pulses. He claimed to have
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Speaker 6: seen blood coming from the mouth of one of the girls,
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Speaker 6: and he couldn't have been close enough to see that.
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Speaker 6: So the police were quite concerned at this behavior. There
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Speaker 6: were a lot of red flags here, so he was
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Speaker 6: the prime suspect.
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Speaker 7: Really.
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Speaker 1: Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway had been sexually assaulted and
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Speaker 1: strangled to death. The news of the discovery quickly spread
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Speaker 1: amongst the residents of Bullscombe. The entire community was in shock.
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Speaker 2: Any murder is big, Any murder is a tragedy, but
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Speaker 2: the loss of two little girls in such brutal circumstances
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Speaker 2: is probably the biggest thing that can happen in terms
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Speaker 2: of policing.
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Speaker 3: It's a dreadful scene and it's a dreadful crime. It
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Speaker 3: has a monstrous effect on the community in Brighton. Originally
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Speaker 3: the killings were known as the Wild Park murders, but
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Speaker 3: they later became known as the Babes in the Wood
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Speaker 3: killings because the girls were so innocent and young.
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Speaker 7: I've gone to school in Moscow for part my childhood,
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Speaker 7: so it was a personal blow to me that somebody
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Speaker 7: would take two young girls from that estate and decided
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Speaker 7: he was going to murder them. To me, you don't
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Speaker 7: do that, not on my beat.
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Speaker 1: The search for two missing girls had now become a
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Speaker 1: double murder case. Evidence from the surrounding area were scrutinized.
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Speaker 7: That a brief England next morning, her attention was drawn
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Speaker 7: to a blue sweatshirt which had a logo across the
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Speaker 7: front Pinto in white lettering. It had been handed into
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Speaker 7: the police box by a railway engineer who was at
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Speaker 7: Muscoam station and found it hanging over the wire that
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Speaker 7: separated the station from the footpath.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty six. DNA was still in its infancy,
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Speaker 1: but that didn't mean the words any clues to be
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Speaker 1: found on the sweatshirt.
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Speaker 2: As time went on, the various forensic items were recovered
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Speaker 2: from it, fibers from the girls, jumpers, ivy spores that
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Speaker 2: were peculiar to the area where.
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Speaker 5: The girls were killed and not where the sweatshirt was found.
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Speaker 2: So it became very clear that whoever had murdered Nicola
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Speaker 2: and Karen had been wearing this sweatshirt at the time.
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Speaker 2: They did that because otherwise those fibers would not have
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Speaker 2: retained on there. So it was really really significant this sweatshirt.
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Speaker 1: Russell Bishop had been acting suspiciously and he had been
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Speaker 1: spotted in the area at around the same time as
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Speaker 1: the girls were last seen alive. Investigators were convinced that
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Speaker 1: the Pinto sweatshirt belonged to Bishop. The evidence appeared to
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Speaker 1: be pointing in one direction. In December nineteen eighty six,
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Speaker 1: Bishop was charged with the murders of Nicola and Karen.
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Speaker 1: Almost a year later, in November nineteen eighty seven, his
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Speaker 1: trial began at Lewis Crown Court.
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Speaker 2: They never quite got to the point where they could
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Speaker 2: say through science that that sweatshirt was worn by Bishop
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Speaker 2: on that night. They knew that it had been worn
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Speaker 2: by the killer, but they couldn't put it on Bishop's back.
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Speaker 1: At that point, the prosecution put forward the case that
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Speaker 1: Bishop had murdered Nicola and Karen had around six thirty pm,
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Speaker 1: but one witness testified she'd waved hello to the two
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Speaker 1: girls at a court of the seventh fifteen minutes after
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Speaker 1: the killings had supposedly taken place.
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Speaker 6: The judge asked the jury to go away and consider
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Speaker 6: three propositions, and if one or more of them they
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Speaker 6: didn't agree with, then they had to acquit. So the
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Speaker 6: first one was that the girls were dead by six
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Speaker 6: point thirty, The second was that Bishop had worn the
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Speaker 6: Pinto sweatshirt, and the third was that the Pinto sweatshirt
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Speaker 6: had been worn by the murderer.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely stunned. The most stunning thing of all was that
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Speaker 7: the jury came back within two hours were not guilty verdict.
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Speaker 1: The case put forward was just not strong enough to
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Speaker 1: convince the jury of Bishop guilt. It was a gut
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Speaker 1: wrenching blow to the families of the two girls, the investigators,
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Speaker 1: and the community as a whole.
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Speaker 2: Bishop knew when he heard those words not guilty, that
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Speaker 2: he got away scot free.
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Speaker 5: In his mind and in everybody else's mind.
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Speaker 2: There was no possibility of him being prosecuted again for that.
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Speaker 6: The way that the law stirred at this time we
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Speaker 6: had a principle called double jeopardy, which meant that somebody
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Speaker 6: couldn't be tried for the same crime twice. Once they've
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Speaker 6: been acquitted, that was it. Prosecution couldn't just keep trying.
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Speaker 6: So Bishop is acquitted and he feels absolutely invincible. At
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Speaker 6: this point in.
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Speaker 3: Time, Bishop leaves Lewis Crown Call with his arms in
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Speaker 3: the air, shouting I am innocent, and rushes across the
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Speaker 3: road to celebrate in the pub opposite. Now some brass neck,
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Speaker 3: wouldn't you think? Some ego there? After all, he knows
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Speaker 3: perfectly well, these killed those two innocent young girls.
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Speaker 1: In the minds of the people who worked on the case,
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Speaker 1: Russell Bishop had just got away with murder.
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Speaker 8: Ordinary blogs like me p season that was summed because
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Speaker 8: you know, after we'd heard about the case and we
20:11
Speaker 8: knew what had got on, we were sure that he
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Speaker 8: was the killer.
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Speaker 2: It was absolutely devastating for everybody that they had a
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Speaker 2: child killer, a double child killer, in their hands, and
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Speaker 2: he got away.
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Speaker 1: Investigators were certain Bishop was the perpetrator, but they couldn't
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Speaker 1: prove it in a court of law, so he walked
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Speaker 1: away a free man. By nineteen eighty nine, Bishop himself
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Speaker 1: was seeking.
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Speaker 9: Justice and as we've still got to get this cause open,
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Speaker 9: and that's all what's been on my mind is to
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Speaker 9: get this causero opened.
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Speaker 6: After he's acquitted, Bishop doesn't just go away and live
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Speaker 6: a quiet life as a narcissist, He feels entitled to attention,
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Speaker 6: and he quite likes the infamy that comes with being
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Speaker 6: involved in this case. So in nine eighty nine, he
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Speaker 6: goes on a march with the family and the local
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Speaker 6: community to a local police station to basically raise awareness
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Speaker 6: about this case, which is apparently still unsolved.
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Speaker 5: Some people might be surprised that you're now linking up
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Speaker 5: with the parents.
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Speaker 10: Of the two murdered schoolgirls, having been accused yourself of
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Speaker 10: their murder.
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Speaker 9: People are very surprised that the kid master me. Why
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Speaker 9: do I keep on and on and on. The fact
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Speaker 9: is I want to say this case with open my
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Speaker 9: name isn't cleared until someone else has brought the justice
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Speaker 9: to real person.
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Speaker 6: He really enjoys being at the center of that because
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Speaker 6: it enables him to claim the victim status for himself.
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Speaker 6: He's saying, everybody, look at me, I am the victim
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Speaker 6: of a miscarriage of justice. Feel sorry for me.
21:49
Speaker 1: By February nineteen ninety, Sussex police were still trying to
21:53
Speaker 1: move on from what they believed to be a grave
21:55
Speaker 1: miscarriage of justice when a similar attack took place in
21:59
Speaker 1: the county.
22:00
Speaker 2: I remember, in my first month as a detective at
22:04
Speaker 2: Brighton's the idea as a very junior DC bottom of
22:06
Speaker 2: the pile. Working one Sunday evening it happened to be
22:10
Speaker 2: the third anniversary of the girl's funerals, and then suddenly
22:15
Speaker 2: everything changed. The sergeant came in and told us that
22:21
Speaker 2: a little girl had gone missing from Whitehawk, which is
22:24
Speaker 2: a similar estate to Mulscom, a different part of Brighton,
22:27
Speaker 2: and shortly after she'd been reported missing, a little girl
22:31
Speaker 2: had been found naked, scratched, crying on Devil's Dike, which
22:37
Speaker 2: is a big wind swept part of what's now the
22:40
Speaker 2: Southdowns National Park.
22:42
Speaker 1: Detective Inspector Malcolm Bacon was in charge of the investigation.
22:47
Speaker 4: She comes to she's in the middle of nowhere, so
22:51
Speaker 4: she stumbles out and she's been seen by a couple
22:55
Speaker 4: who were on the main road deck. So she goes
22:58
Speaker 4: to the mess and the first thing she said, you're
23:00
Speaker 4: not kidnappers, are you? Bless her? But of course they weren't,
23:05
Speaker 4: wrapped her up in a pullover and a coat and
23:08
Speaker 4: took her to the Dyke Golf Club.
23:11
Speaker 1: The seven year old girl that survived a terrifying ordeal,
23:15
Speaker 1: which she bravely shared with Malcolm and his team. After
23:19
Speaker 1: roller skating to the local shop to buy some sweets,
23:22
Speaker 1: her young life would change forever.
23:24
Speaker 4: She was on her way back when she said she
23:27
Speaker 4: saw this red car and she was scooting past it.
23:32
Speaker 4: Suddenly she was grabbed, literally grabbed, snatched off the street
23:37
Speaker 4: and dumped into the boot of this red car, this
23:40
Speaker 4: red Corteina. She was scared, absolutely scared, witness and she
23:46
Speaker 4: realized she saw can of WD forty. She described it
23:50
Speaker 4: as the stuff that her dad uses to get the
23:52
Speaker 4: car started. And she also found in there like a
23:54
Speaker 4: hammer type thing, and she started bashing on the lid
23:58
Speaker 4: of the boot with this hammer. Suddenly the driver shouted
24:02
Speaker 4: down and told her to shut up, stop doing her
24:05
Speaker 4: or killer.
24:07
Speaker 1: The girl kept quiet, hoping that she'd be set free,
24:11
Speaker 1: but her ordeal continued.
24:13
Speaker 4: She was bundled straight into the back seat of the car,
24:17
Speaker 4: and from there she realized and she saw the person
24:20
Speaker 4: who was responsible, and she strangled. She was strangled certainly
24:25
Speaker 4: to the point of view that she passed out. And
24:28
Speaker 4: I am sure, I am sure that Bishop was convinced
24:33
Speaker 4: that he killed her.
24:37
Speaker 1: Three years after the murders of Nicola Fellows and Karen
24:40
Speaker 1: had Away, Russell Bishop was hoping to claim a third victim.
24:45
Speaker 4: At that point, unconscious, hardly any life signs at all.
24:49
Speaker 4: She was sexually assorted. Bishop then just takes what he
24:52
Speaker 4: considers to be the dead, naked body of a seven
24:57
Speaker 4: year old child that he is just assorted and abused
25:01
Speaker 4: and just discance her. There's no other word for it.
25:05
Speaker 4: He discards her. He just throws her in the middle
25:09
Speaker 4: of these gorse bushes. On a freezing cold Sunday night in.
25:14
Speaker 1: February, Bishop sped off in his car, but the monster
25:22
Speaker 1: had made a mistake. The girl was not dead.
25:26
Speaker 6: I think he did seriously believe that she was dead
25:29
Speaker 6: because strangulation was a method that he'd used before on
25:32
Speaker 6: Karen and Nikola, and it had been successful in relation
25:35
Speaker 6: to that case, so he assumes that it's worked again
25:39
Speaker 6: and that he's gotten away with it again because there
25:41
Speaker 6: are no witnesses.
25:44
Speaker 4: We don't normally use forensic pathologists to do examinations of children,
25:48
Speaker 4: but on this particular case, it was because he noticed
25:51
Speaker 4: not only the pinching on the round the throat, but
25:54
Speaker 4: also particular hemorrhages, which is indicative of a suffocating injury.
25:59
Speaker 4: That's the sort of thing that you look at when
26:01
Speaker 4: a person has been strangled and they're killed. That's how
26:04
Speaker 4: close she was seconds, I would suggest, seconds away from death.
26:09
Speaker 1: The seven year old girl's incredible testimony immediately helped Malcolm
26:14
Speaker 1: and his team come up with a prime suspect.
26:17
Speaker 4: So I gave a briefing to the troops and I
26:19
Speaker 4: mentioned about the red cardiff that and the other and
26:21
Speaker 4: the uniform chief inspector said, are you aware that Russell
26:25
Speaker 4: Bishop was seen in a red car this week?
26:29
Speaker 1: Less than two and a half years after his acquittal
26:32
Speaker 1: for murder. The police were paying twenty three year old
26:35
Speaker 1: Russell Bishop another visit.
26:38
Speaker 2: They drove up to his house and saw him scrubbing
26:42
Speaker 2: as if his life depended on it.
26:45
Speaker 4: Washing his red courtena on a Sunday night in February.
26:50
Speaker 4: That didn't sit night.
26:51
Speaker 5: So Bishop was arrested and taken to the police station.
26:57
Speaker 1: Bishop was back in custody. It was a moment of
27:00
Speaker 1: bittersweet redemption for Sussex Police.
27:04
Speaker 4: People were volunteering to come in as soon as somebody
27:06
Speaker 4: heard it was Russell Bishop that had been nicked as well.
27:09
Speaker 4: You've got to be honest that that was like a
27:10
Speaker 4: magnet as well. That was like a magnet and I
27:13
Speaker 4: went down with the sergeant from the seen as a
27:15
Speaker 4: crime officer to look at this car. And when we
27:18
Speaker 4: opened up the bootlead, we saw the WD forty, We
27:22
Speaker 4: saw the hammer, we saw the chip marks to the
27:25
Speaker 4: boot and we thought we're going in the right direction.
27:32
Speaker 1: Evidence collected at the scene near Devil's Dyke didn't help
27:36
Speaker 1: Bishop's cause.
27:38
Speaker 4: We find tire marks at the area where we've the
27:42
Speaker 4: assault took place. The tire marks later found to be
27:46
Speaker 4: exactly identical to the ones that are on Bishop's car.
27:50
Speaker 1: Soon news reached the station of even more evidence that
27:53
Speaker 1: pointed towards Bishop's involvement.
27:56
Speaker 2: There was a taxi driver that found a bundle of
27:58
Speaker 2: clothing on a road. It was fairly busy, but was
28:02
Speaker 2: the natural route away from the Dike to where Bishop lived.
28:07
Speaker 2: This bundle of clothing would ultimately be a parcel of
28:11
Speaker 2: evidence that had both the girls and Bishop's DNA in
28:14
Speaker 2: it together.
28:16
Speaker 4: Shippings from the bootleg that were on there. There was
28:19
Speaker 4: clothing fibers which later matched up to the ones that
28:22
Speaker 4: little girl was wearing. There was blood and they were
28:25
Speaker 4: seamen on those trousers, immediately linking the little girl to
28:31
Speaker 4: those trousers to Bishop and then the car as well.
28:36
Speaker 1: In a bid to make sure Bishop didn't escape justice.
28:39
Speaker 1: The brave seven year old girl was willing to face
28:43
Speaker 1: her attacker once more.
28:45
Speaker 2: Almost at the time a decision had to be made
28:47
Speaker 2: was whether Bishop was going to be freed or not.
28:49
Speaker 2: His solicitor asked for an identification parade. This was a
28:53
Speaker 2: bit of a last desperate throw over dice.
28:55
Speaker 5: In my view.
28:57
Speaker 2: It was a chance for Bishop's solicitors to see how
29:00
Speaker 2: well this little girl would stand up to the account
29:03
Speaker 2: that she'd given.
29:05
Speaker 4: They set it up in a room with a one
29:07
Speaker 4: way mirror, and so she could stand back and she
29:10
Speaker 4: can observe. He sat down, he was given his.
29:14
Speaker 9: Number, and I'm going to ask you in a moment
29:18
Speaker 9: to look through the window at the line.
29:22
Speaker 5: Of men who are sitting there.
29:24
Speaker 8: I should then ask you whether the person who you
29:28
Speaker 8: saw on that day is fear.
29:32
Speaker 2: The girl looked up and down the line, stopped at
29:35
Speaker 2: the Bishop, looked at Bishop.
29:37
Speaker 5: He couldn't see her. You think it's number line, thank you.
29:45
Speaker 4: So it was really quite a tear jerking moment in
29:48
Speaker 4: a sense. It was so emotional that that little bit,
29:51
Speaker 4: I mean, it was just wonderful for her and for us,
29:55
Speaker 4: definitely for us.
29:58
Speaker 1: Bishop was charged with kidnap, in decent assault and attempted murder.
30:03
Speaker 1: At his trial in November nineteen ninety, he took to
30:06
Speaker 1: the stand in a bid to discredit the police investigation.
30:11
Speaker 3: The ever slippery Bishop attempts to convince the world that
30:14
Speaker 3: he has been fitted up for the crime because of
30:16
Speaker 3: his fame. Oh, I'm the man that got away with
30:20
Speaker 3: the babes in the woodkillings. I was acquitted, but now
30:24
Speaker 3: they're trying to make up for lost time.
30:26
Speaker 4: He got in a box and he started to give evidence,
30:31
Speaker 4: and his arrogance just shone through. He didn't have to
30:33
Speaker 4: do anything. Just let him talk, Just let him talk me,
30:37
Speaker 4: and it just showed this psychopathic behavior throughout. He couldn't
30:43
Speaker 4: stop himself from being the victim to this arrogance that
30:48
Speaker 4: he showed throughout.
30:50
Speaker 1: With incredible bravery, the young girl, who had since turned eight,
30:55
Speaker 1: agreed to take to the stand in order to help
30:58
Speaker 1: get a conviction.
31:00
Speaker 3: It must have been the most extraordinary moment. You've got
31:04
Speaker 3: this man full of all kinds of slippery stories, and
31:07
Speaker 3: you've got this little girl sitting on a high stool
31:11
Speaker 3: with pillows, saying I know who attacked me. He did.
31:16
Speaker 5: It was a moment of the highest drama.
31:20
Speaker 6: I think this kind of courage and resilience is something
31:23
Speaker 6: that Bishop will never have because he's such coward. Very
31:27
Speaker 6: often in these cases, the victims embody everything that the
31:30
Speaker 6: perpetrators aren't, and that is very much the case here.
31:37
Speaker 1: There is no escaping justice this time. On the thirteenth
31:41
Speaker 1: of December nineteen ninety, Russell Bishop was sentenced to life
31:45
Speaker 1: in prison.
31:47
Speaker 2: Sometimes when murderers are convicted and good sentences are passed down,
31:53
Speaker 2: the police have a bit of a celebration, might go
31:55
Speaker 2: out for a drink or you know, just a very
31:58
Speaker 2: satisfied with the outcome. There were no celebrations this time.
32:02
Speaker 2: You know, we locked up a very very evil man.
32:05
Speaker 2: But there was no cause for celebration because the families
32:08
Speaker 2: of those two little girls were still waiting for their
32:11
Speaker 2: day in courts, still waiting for justice.
32:13
Speaker 1: The guilty verdict to reaffirm the communities believed that Bishop
32:18
Speaker 1: was behind the nineteen eighty six murders of Nicola and Karen, even.
32:23
Speaker 2: Though Bishop had been convicted of a very similar offense
32:26
Speaker 2: against very similar girl in very similar circumstances. Nothing would
32:31
Speaker 2: have allowed the police to recharge Bishop with those earlier
32:36
Speaker 2: murders and put in before the court. The law simply
32:39
Speaker 2: didn't allow it. So we were stuck. We knew that
32:44
Speaker 2: Bishop had killed Nicola and Karen. Everybody knew that. Within
32:48
Speaker 2: the police, the families knew that nothing we could do
32:51
Speaker 2: about it.
32:53
Speaker 1: By two thousand and four, thirty eight year old Russell
32:57
Speaker 1: Bishop had been in prison for fourteen years. The convicted
33:01
Speaker 1: pedophile was due to be released at any moment. Detective
33:05
Speaker 1: Jeff Riley had been recruited in the same year that
33:08
Speaker 1: Bishop was sent to prison, but he was still aware
33:11
Speaker 1: of the miscarriage of justice surrounding the babes in the
33:15
Speaker 1: Wood murders.
33:20
Speaker 10: Well I joined the police in nineteen ninety, so of
33:22
Speaker 10: course that was only a few years after he had
33:24
Speaker 10: been acquitted at trial. Now I was aware of the investigation,
33:28
Speaker 10: and I was aware had a massive impact clearly on
33:30
Speaker 10: the families, a massive impact on the community in Wull's Comb.
33:33
Speaker 10: And I think it always hung as a bit of
33:35
Speaker 10: a dark crowd over Brighton and over Sussex place because
33:39
Speaker 10: you never want to see the murder of two little girls,
33:42
Speaker 10: you know, with the guy not brought.
33:43
Speaker 1: To justice, but all that was about to change.
33:48
Speaker 10: The big change came in in two thousand and three
33:50
Speaker 10: when the Criminal Justice Act was brought in. It was
33:52
Speaker 10: actually became law in two thousand and five, and that
33:55
Speaker 10: was a real milestone in the UK justice system because
33:59
Speaker 10: it meant that someone who's found not guilty i acquitted
34:02
Speaker 10: at trial could now potentially be taken back to trial
34:06
Speaker 10: and be retried for the original offense.
34:09
Speaker 1: The new legislation that removed the so called double jeopardy
34:12
Speaker 1: law meant Bishop could be retried for the murders of
34:15
Speaker 1: Nicola and Karen, but only if there was some new
34:18
Speaker 1: evidence against him.
34:20
Speaker 2: When we talk about new evidence, we weren't talking about
34:22
Speaker 2: evidence that had been sat there and the police hadn't
34:25
Speaker 2: bothered to look at, or the prosecution had decided not
34:29
Speaker 2: to use. It could had to be new evidence, and
34:32
Speaker 2: it had to be compelling.
34:34
Speaker 1: Gathering the new evidence would take years, but fortunately, as
34:39
Speaker 1: Bishop was still considered a danger to young girls, his
34:42
Speaker 1: parole was continually denied. By twenty thirteen, Jeff and his
34:48
Speaker 1: team believed they had made a breakthrough. Although DNA testing
34:52
Speaker 1: wasn't readily available to detectives in nineteen eighty six, forensic
34:57
Speaker 1: science had come on in leaps and bounds. The blue
35:00
Speaker 1: Pinto sweatshirt once again became pebotal in the case.
35:04
Speaker 10: Normally they would always test around the neck, they would
35:07
Speaker 10: test under the armpits. But they took the view that
35:09
Speaker 10: actually had like a double cuff on the sweatshirt. So
35:12
Speaker 10: if we unpicked the cuff and pulled it apart, we
35:15
Speaker 10: may find some evidence of the wearer within that cuff.
35:17
Speaker 10: And that's exactly what they did, and that's exactly what
35:20
Speaker 10: they found. They actually recovered a full DNA profile from
35:24
Speaker 10: Russell Bishop from within that cuffed area that had been
35:27
Speaker 10: there since he bore the jumper in nineteen eighty six.
35:31
Speaker 1: Back in nineteen eighty six, the sweatshirt had merely been
35:34
Speaker 1: regarded as lost property and had been handled so many
35:38
Speaker 1: times contamination of the evidence couldn't be ruled out in
35:42
Speaker 1: a court of law. Incredibly, it was back to square
35:45
Speaker 1: one for Jeff Well.
35:48
Speaker 10: That was a massive blow for the investigation. We'd been
35:50
Speaker 10: running two years. You know, I'd been discussing with the family.
35:53
Speaker 10: We'd built their hopes up, we'd invested a lot of money.
35:55
Speaker 10: From Sussex Police's point of view, we'd invested a lot
35:58
Speaker 10: of time, but of course the impact of the family
36:01
Speaker 10: could have been significant. But the scientists were quite upbeat
36:04
Speaker 10: and they said, look, we've got lots of other options
36:07
Speaker 10: to test evidence. So you know, just because we've lost
36:10
Speaker 10: this DNA and the calf which was our original bit,
36:12
Speaker 10: doesn't mean to say there's not other avenues.
36:15
Speaker 1: Some evidence from the original investigation was still securely sealed away,
36:20
Speaker 1: forensic examples taken from the bodies of Nicola and Karen
36:24
Speaker 1: using an adhesive tape.
36:26
Speaker 2: They decided that they would go back to these tapings,
36:29
Speaker 2: the tapings that have been taken back in the eighties
36:32
Speaker 2: by the scientists who was looking for fibers, hair foliage,
36:35
Speaker 2: those sorts of things. Because these tapings were sealed parcels
36:40
Speaker 2: in time, really there were time capsules of evidence.
36:43
Speaker 5: There was no break in seals.
36:46
Speaker 2: So they examined the tapings and this was a Eureka
36:50
Speaker 2: moment because within those tapings was Bishop's DNA.
36:54
Speaker 1: Modern science had proved what detectives back in nineteen eighty
36:58
Speaker 1: six couldn't. The new DNA evidence firmly placed Russell Bishop
37:03
Speaker 1: at the scene of the crime and proved he had
37:06
Speaker 1: been in physical contact with the two nine year old girls.
37:10
Speaker 1: It also meant, without a doubt, Bishop had been wearing
37:14
Speaker 1: the now infamous Pinto sweatshirt.
37:17
Speaker 10: So even though we'd lost the calf, we had DNA
37:19
Speaker 10: on the sweatshirt. We had DNA victim and made all
37:22
Speaker 10: the other evidence that actually stood the test of time.
37:26
Speaker 2: Bishop's assertion, and it was probably his only consistent assertion
37:29
Speaker 2: other than the fact he hadn't killed the girls, was
37:31
Speaker 2: that he knew nothing about that sweatshirt and it wasn't
37:33
Speaker 2: his here it was sprinkled in his DNA.
37:45
Speaker 1: Based on this new evidence, investigators knew that the Court
37:49
Speaker 1: of Appeal would agree to a retrial. The only thing
37:53
Speaker 1: left to do was break the news to Russell Bishop.
37:56
Speaker 10: He was a Category A prisoner because of his security risk,
38:00
Speaker 10: so we had to take him to a Category A
38:02
Speaker 10: holding police station. And that's the first thing he would
38:05
Speaker 10: have known about our investigation was when he drove into
38:09
Speaker 10: the rear yard of Durham Central Police Station and he
38:13
Speaker 10: just kept saying that I want to go back to prison.
38:14
Speaker 10: You know, this has been dealt with, This has gone away.
38:16
Speaker 4: You know.
38:17
Speaker 10: I think he was hoping it had gone away, and
38:18
Speaker 10: I think he convinced himself it had. But of course
38:21
Speaker 10: he hadn't thought about double jeopardy. He hadn't thought about
38:23
Speaker 10: the Criminal Justice Act, and he hadn't thought about the
38:26
Speaker 10: fact that we'd never forgotten about this case. And there
38:29
Speaker 10: he was in custody, being arrested again for the murders
38:33
Speaker 10: of Karena Nicola. It was a massive moment for us.
38:41
Speaker 1: The retrial began that the Old Bailey in October twenty eighteen.
38:45
Speaker 1: Further evidence was presented against Bishop, including explicit letters he'd
38:50
Speaker 1: written to a thirteen year old girl from his prison
38:53
Speaker 1: cell while on remand for the original trial in nineteen
38:56
Speaker 1: eighty seven.
38:58
Speaker 10: He started shouting that it wasn't right that he was
39:00
Speaker 10: questioned in this way. He appealed to his council, He
39:03
Speaker 10: appealed to the judge. The judge very clearly told him
39:06
Speaker 10: that these questions were appropriate and if any stage they weren't,
39:09
Speaker 10: he would step in, but he didn't need to. As
39:12
Speaker 10: this went on and went forward, Bishop became more and
39:14
Speaker 10: more angry. He then asked for break. He then left
39:18
Speaker 10: the witness box. He then refused to return, and the
39:21
Speaker 10: following day refused to return to trial. So actually he
39:25
Speaker 10: never came back to court after his initial evidence.
39:29
Speaker 3: I think he realized at that moment that he'd blown it,
39:33
Speaker 3: because the jurors could see for themselves exactly what he
39:37
Speaker 3: was capable of.
39:39
Speaker 1: After just three hours of deliberations on the tenth of
39:43
Speaker 1: December twenty eighteen, the jury had reached a decision.
39:48
Speaker 2: When they filed back into the court, the families were
39:51
Speaker 2: all there, the barristers were all there, the police officers
39:55
Speaker 2: were there.
39:56
Speaker 10: Everyone was in court apart from Bishop. The family was
39:59
Speaker 10: sitting just behind me. The courtroom was packed, but the
40:03
Speaker 10: atmosphere was electric, I mean absolutely electric. The jury came
40:07
Speaker 10: back in. You know when you all look at the
40:09
Speaker 10: jury trying to get an indication of what you think.
40:11
Speaker 10: You know, we've all done it over the years, but
40:13
Speaker 10: we just couldn't tell.
40:14
Speaker 5: The foreman stood up.
40:15
Speaker 2: The clerk asked whether they'd made a decision on which
40:19
Speaker 2: they were all agreed. The foreman confirmed they had, and
40:22
Speaker 2: then when asked whether or not they found Bishop guilty
40:26
Speaker 2: or not guilty of murdering Nicola, he replied guilty, And
40:31
Speaker 2: when asked whether they'd found the defendant guilty or not
40:34
Speaker 2: guilty of murdering Karen, he replied guilty.
40:40
Speaker 10: The fitting in the court was just astounding. Like you know,
40:42
Speaker 10: I looked at the family and just to look on
40:44
Speaker 10: their face and they let out a gasp. I think
40:46
Speaker 10: there was a gasp, but just went around the court.
40:49
Speaker 2: It was a huge moment for the whole city, for
40:51
Speaker 2: the police, for the retired officers, that this was a
40:56
Speaker 2: cloud that had now lifted from the city.
41:03
Speaker 1: Unlike his acquittal exactly thirty one years earlier to the day,
41:08
Speaker 1: Russell Bishop would not be celebrating in the pub. The
41:11
Speaker 1: following day, the fifty two year old refused to appear
41:14
Speaker 1: in front of the judge to hear his fate.
41:17
Speaker 2: His sentenced Bishop with a withering attack to two life
41:21
Speaker 2: sentences and a minimum term of thirty six years. Bishop
41:26
Speaker 2: will be at the very least eighty eight when he
41:29
Speaker 2: is eligible for parole. I would be astonished if that
41:33
Speaker 2: man ever walked the streets again.
41:35
Speaker 10: Detectives don't like to get too emotional with these things,
41:38
Speaker 10: but this was just such a massive moment for the team.
41:41
Speaker 10: And I remember sitting next to one of my guys
41:43
Speaker 10: and I was just shaking hands and you know, and
41:45
Speaker 10: just look looking at the family and smiling at Barry
41:48
Speaker 10: and Michelle and Susan and just thinking, I'm so pleased
41:51
Speaker 10: for you, you know, I'm so pleased that finally you've
41:54
Speaker 10: got justice for your daughters. It was an amazing moment,
41:57
Speaker 10: you know, one that I've never had before, and I
41:59
Speaker 10: don't think whatever have again.
42:02
Speaker 1: A weight had been lifted from Wolscombe and the city
42:06
Speaker 1: of Brighton as a whole.
42:08
Speaker 6: I think the feeling in the community amongst the family
42:11
Speaker 6: and the officers involved was that they had finally achieved
42:15
Speaker 6: justice for Karen and Nicola. But I don't think it
42:19
Speaker 6: was very much as celebratory moment. It was more the
42:21
Speaker 6: closing of a chapter because Karen and Niccola would now
42:24
Speaker 6: be women with years of life behind them and in
42:28
Speaker 6: front of them, and this is something that Bishop has
42:31
Speaker 6: denied to them. So I think there is a sense
42:36
Speaker 6: of justice here, but we'll never be able to get
42:39
Speaker 6: back what he's taken away.
42:43
Speaker 1: For thirty two years, Bishop thought he'd got away with murder,
42:47
Speaker 1: but justice eventually caught up with the Keller's killer.
42:51
Speaker 2: Russell Bishop is an evil, pedophile psychopath. His crimes speak
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Speaker 2: for themselves. The way he conduct himself, the way he's
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Speaker 2: conducted himself throughout just underline the evil that that man is.
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Speaker 5: I used to say.
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Speaker 2: That there were people that did evil things, but very
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Speaker 2: few evil people. Well, Bishop is one of those evil people.
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Speaker 1: Bishop was a pedophile who couldn't resist his selfish and
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Speaker 1: impure instincts. He squeezed the life from two innocent young girls,
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Speaker 1: and it was only his own ineptitude that saved the
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Speaker 1: life of a third. Justice was thirty two years in
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Speaker 1: the making, but the scars he's left on the community
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Speaker 1: he ripped apart will take even longer to heal, making
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Speaker 1: Russell Bishop one of the world's most evil killers.