‘My daughter’s paedo killer accused me of sexually assaulting her after he raped and murdered her'
“When they came and told me the details of how she’d been asphyxiated and sexually abused before and after death. I just said “why?” She was my little girl," Barrie says.Bishop acted suspiciously from the start.
Dave added: “I thought that was strange because unless you had a background in medicine you wouldn’t do that. It would be much easier to try their wrist.” But during the trial, to the frustration of Sussex Police, Johnson unexpectedly changed her story, claiming she had never seen the sweatshirt, and his defence argued that it could have been contaminated in the evidence room.PA:Press AssociationPolice on the Moulsecomb Estate in Brighton, where both girls lived
Thrown into the bushes and left for dead, the little girl miraculously survived and was found wandering naked by a picnicking couple at a nearby beauty spot.But it would be three decades before justice would be done for the two nine-year-olds– with devastating effect on the grieving familiesKaren’s devastated dad Lee Hadaway died of a heart attack two years after Bishop’s trial and Barrie’s marriage to Nicola’s mum Susan crumbled."It was like that was the end of it.
The case was reopened in 2012 after advances in technology made it possible to create a DNA profile from the tiniest scrap of evidence.
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