Paedophile Russell Bishop faces second trial for double child murder in 1986

Russell Bishop, 52, denies murdering friends Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, both aged nine, and dumping their bodies in woods near their home in Brighton, East Sussex, in 1986.An Old Bailey jury was told Bishop was acquitted of the murders a year after the girls died, but the case was not closed and detective work continued.Three years later, in 1990, Bishop was convicted of the kidnap, sexual assault and attempted murder of a seven-year-old girl, said prosecutor Brian Altman QC.