‘Killer’s boasts showed he was the woods strangler’

A roofer accused of murdering two schoolgirls boasted about details of their deaths that only their killer could have been aware of, a court heard today. Russell Bishop, 52, is said to have sexually assaulted and strangled nine-year-old best friends Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway 32 years ago in woods in Brighton. He walked free after being cleared of the murders in December 1987 after a trial at Lewes Crown Court. But the Court of Appeal quashed those acquittals after…