S05E01 | Russell Bishop | The ‘Babes in the Wood’ Murders of Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of British Murders Season 5, I tell the tragic story of the ‘Babes in the Wood’ murders.⁣

On October 9, 1986, a 20-year-old man named Russell Bishop sexually assaulted and strangled two 9-year-old girls named Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway.⁣

He was arrested, taken to trial and acquitted in 1987.⁣

In 1990, Bishop went on to sexually assault a 7-year-old girl, leaving her for dead.⁣

This time, the girl survived, and Bishop was handed a life sentence with a minimum term to serve of 14 years.⁣

Due to advances in technology and the passing of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, Bishop was retaken to trial in 2018 and found guilty of the murders of Nicola and Karen.⁣

He was handed two life sentences with a minimum term to serve of 36 years.⁣

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David John Brady - 'Throw Down the Gauntlet'

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to British murders, the podcast that focuses exclusively on British murder cases with an occasional glimpse at horror movies.
0:21.2	I'm your host Stuart Blues, and this is the first episode of Season 5.
0:25.9	If you've been listening to the show for a while, then thank you for returning, and if you're new here, welcome.
0:31.7	Each of my seasons contained ten episodes, and at the start of each episode, I've got two opening segments just to break
0:38.3	the ice a little bit. The first one is this.
0:42.1	Welcome to Daddy Facts.
0:44.3	This week's Dad Fact is.
0:47.8	After signing his first contract for Golden Eye, Pierce Brosnan was forbidden from wearing a
0:53.6	full tuxedo in any non-James Bond movie from 1995 to 2002.
1:00.0	Interesting fact, he is my favourite James Bond, controversial, probably second Sean Connery, but I do like Pierce Brosnan, probably because I grew up in the 90s.
1:09.5	Born in the 90s, born in the 90s, he late 80s. Grew up in the 90s.
1:11.7	Here's my favourite Bond.
1:12.9	Favorite Bond film.
1:14.4	Tomorrow I Never Dies.
1:15.8	Great film.
1:17.3	Segment 2 of my opening icebreakers sounds like this.
1:22.6	The Serial Killer's Book of Haiku.
1:26.2	A haiku is a Japanese poem made up of 17 syllables in three lines of 5, 7 and 5, and 5,
1:33.3	and it's meant to be read in one breath.
1:36.0	Author Rose Bundy has kindly sent me a copy of The Serial Killer's Book of Haiku 2,
1:41.4	sent him a while back, so that's where season 5's haiku is coming from.
1:45.3	Season 4's haiku came from the first serial killers book of haiku.
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