Roofer ‘linked to schoolgirl murder by his DNA’

A roofer accused of stripping and strangling two schoolgirls 32 years ago was finally linked to one of the victims by his DNA after scientific advances, a court heard. Russell Bishop, 52, is said to have molested and murdered nine-year-old best friends Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway in woods in Brighton in October 1986. Bishop then ‘cynically’ joined the search party in an effort to divert attention away from himself, the Old Bailey heard. But he gave himself away by…