Author: stephen miller
Tuesday, 30 July 2002 - 10:25 am |        |
Hi All I seem to remember some DNA development in this case could someone enlighten me as to the results of this development
all the best
steve |
Author: Martin Fido
Tuesday, 30 July 2002 - 10:53 pm | |
In 1990, Russell Bishop, who was acquitted of the "Babes in the Wood" murder of Nicola Fellowes and Karen Haddoway, (whose bodies were found concealed in undergrowth in Wild Park, Brighton, in 1986), was convicted of the attempted murder of a 7-year-old child at Devil's Dyke in Sussex. DNA evidence showed his semen and the child'saliva on a pair of track suit trousers abandoned near the scene of the assault.
All the best,
Martin F |
Author: stephen miller
Wednesday, 31 July 2002 - 12:34 am | |
Thank you Martin but I thought there was a later DNA development 2 or 3 years ago but maybe I'm mistaken
all the best
steve |
Author: Martin Fido
Wednesday, 31 July 2002 - 06:10 am | |
May have been, Steve, but if so I missed it. Have you tried the Times index?
All the best,
Martin F |
Author: stephen miller
Wednesday, 31 July 2002 - 01:03 pm | |
Hi Martin I would try it if I had some kind of a clue where to start please advise if you can
all the best
steve
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Author: stephen miller
Wednesday, 31 July 2002 - 01:18 pm | |
Hi Martin I've done a search on thisisbrighton.co.uk and have found only that the Sussex police were reopenong some unsolved murders in 2000 and the long suffering parents of Karen and Nicola held a vigil in the Wild Park last year
So it seems I was mistaken
all the best
steve |
Author: Andy & Sue Parlour
Wednesday, 31 July 2002 - 04:52 pm | |
Martin,
Please correct me if I am wrong(which is quite often). When Bishop was acquitted of the Brighton Babes in the wood murder, didn't the Sussex Police show their anger, by saying, that as far as they are concerned, they are looking for no one else?
Andy P. |
Author: Martin Fido
Thursday, 01 August 2002 - 06:48 am | |
Probably, Andy. The police often do announce that they are not starting a new investigation when they feel that a jury has flown in the face of the evidence, but they cannot challenge the majesty of the courts by simply saying, "This acquital is a miscarriage of justice"..
All the best,
Martin |
Author: Andy & Sue Parlour
Thursday, 01 August 2002 - 10:20 am | |
Martin,
Really appreciate that comment.
It makes it a lot easier to understand now.
The officer in charge of the Stephen Lawrence investigations said something very similar when the accused were acquitted after their trial I recall.
Andy P. |
Author: Martin Fido
Thursday, 01 August 2002 - 06:18 pm | |
Yes indeed, Andy. And as far as that comment went, fair enough. But while I regard the Acourt brothers and their gang with all the loathing accorded them by the rest of the country, I feel that the Met was pressured by orchestrated public opinion into going over the top in abusing their civil rights. What would have been said if some black kids suspected of killing a white boy had suffered the installation of secret cameras and recording devices in their private flat, which caught them making odious comments but did nothing to prove their guilt, and then the tapes were passed out to be shown on national television?
All the best,
Martin |
Author: Garry Wroe
Thursday, 01 August 2002 - 09:46 pm | |
Hi Martin.
I'm not sure whether you are aware of it, but two of the Acourt gang were recently in the news for having perpetrated a(nother) race attack - this time on an off-duty policeman.
Bye,
Garry Wroe. |
Author: Martin Fido
Thursday, 01 August 2002 - 10:43 pm | |
Yup, I spotted it, Garry. I've no opinions to offer on their claims that they were being picked on and the policeman's counter-claim that this was another example of their racism. I don't doubt their racism, for one minute. I don't doubt, either, that the police are dying to get the killers of Stephen Lawrence, who currently rest happy under double jeopardy protection since the Lawrences were so badly advised by race relations professionals that they instituted their premature and inevitably unsuccessful private prosecution.
All the best in a sad old world,
Martin F |
