Witness slams ‘Babes in the Wood’ alibi claims

A family friend of the ‘Babes in the Wood’ victims branded claims she gave the father of one of the girls a false alibi ‘a load of rubbish’, a court heard. Russell Bishop, 52, is accused of sexually assaulting and strangling nine-year-old best friends Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway in Brighton in 1986. The schoolgirls went missing whilst out playing close to their homes in Moulsecoomb during the evening of Thursday 9 October. Their bodies were found dumped in dense…