‘Accused double murderer was my first love’

BRIGHTON

The former girlfriend of the accused ‘Babes in the Wood’ killer told jurors today (weds) that the convicted paedophile was her ‘first love’. 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 just over a year later in December 1987 following a trial at Lewes Crown Court. But the Court of Appeal quashed those…

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