The Babes in the Wood Murders: The Prosecutors

In 2018, 32 years after nine-year-old best friends Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway were sexually assaulted and murdered, their families finally found the justice they sought. Russell Bishop was tried for a second time for the killings – he was acquitted in 1987 but found guilty in December thanks to enormous leaps in scientific investigation.

Cameras followed police, solicitors for the Crown Prosecution Service and those closest to the girls for two years after Bishop, who was serving a lengthy jail term for attacking a seven-year-old girl in 1990, was arrested and re-interviewed after the case was reopened. He maintained throughout that he had nothing to do with the murders. But a speck of his DNA on Karen’s left forearm tied him to the killings.

It’s a fascinating story, though one that never forgets Nicola and Karen, and the testimony from their surviving parents is heartbreaking.