Politics
Babes in the Wood killer’s ex-girlfriend found guilty of perjury and perverting course of justice over his 1987 trial
THE ex-girlfriend of Babes in the Wood killer Russell Bishop has today been found guilty of “prolifically” lying to help acquit him.
Jenny Johnson’s evidence “significantly undermined” the horrific double murder case in 1996 and meant Bishop later went on to attack a seven-year-old girl.
Russell Bishop was convicted of the murders of two girls[/caption]
Bishop was eventually convicted of murdering nine-year-olds Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway in 2018.
Johnson, 55, was today convicted by a jury on one count of perjury and one count of perverting the course of justice.
Lewes Crown Court heard how Johnson told “lies that were important” including about a crucial piece of evidence – a sweatshirt found near the scene.
Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows, both 9, were sexually assaulted and strangled in a woodland den in Brighton in October 1986.
Bishop went on trial for murder a year later but was controversially acquitted.
He then went on to kidnap and attempt to strangle a seven-year-old girl – leaving her for dead at Devil’s Dyke.
While he was serving life in prison for the horrific attack, he once again stood trial for the Babes in the Wood double murder after a DNA breakthrough.
Bishop was caged for life after the double-jeopardy law changed in 2003.
Nicola Fellows was killed by Russell Bishop[/caption]
Bishop is also serving a sentence for the murder of Karen Hadaway[/caption]
