The Babes in the Wood killer Russell Bishop, who murdered two schoolgirls in
Brighton in the 1980s has died.
The murderer died in hospital from cancer after being rushed there from HMP
Frankland in County Durham.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: “HMP Frankland prisoner Russell Bishop died in
hospital on 20 January. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has been informed.”
Bishop was 20 years old when he sexually assaulted and strangled the two girls in a
den in Wild Park, Brighton.
A discarded sweatshirt on his route home linked him to the crime by DNA while fibre,
paint and ivy hairs placed it at the murder scene.
Tests revealed a “one-in-a-billion” DNA match to Bishop from a sample taken from
Karen’s left forearm.
Their mothers described Bishop as an “evil monster” after 32 years of fighting for
justice.
Although Bishop, a former roofer, was initially cleared of the “Babes in the Wood”
murders, within three years he was sentenced to life for the kidnap, sexual assault
and attempted murder of a seven-year-old girl at Devil’s Dyke on the South Downs.
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