Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park)

The Babes in the Wood murders were the murders of two nine-year old girls, Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, on 9 October 1986. The bodies of the girls were found in Wild Park, Moulsecoomb, north of Brighton, England on the following day. They had been strangled and sexually assaulted. Nicola and Karen, who were neighbors on an estate in Brighton, were last seen alive after going out to play. A local roofer, Russell Bishop, was tried for the rape and strangulation of the two girls, but was acquitted. The case remains open. Bishop was convicted in December 1990 of the kidnapping and attempted murder of a seven-year-old girl in Whitehawk 10 months earlier, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Nicola’s father, Barrie Fellows, was arrested in 2009 at his home in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, on suspicion of rape and conspiracy to rape his deceased daughter shortly before her death. A friend of the Fellows family, Douglas Judd, was also arrested for suspicion of sexual offenses. A spokeswoman for the Sussex Police said the investigation into sexual abuse allegations was unrelated to the ongoing murder inquiry. Both men were found innocent by police and let go.

On 10 May 2016, a man was arrested for the murders. The suspect was initially not named for legal reasons.

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