Season 4 - Episode 28
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
They Walk Among Us
4.5 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 4 - EPISODE 27’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS FOUR-PART CASE.
The trial into the murders of Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows took almost a month, supported by evidence from one of the most significant investigations Sussex police had conducted at the time. However, Ivan Lawrence QC, defending, said there were glaring holes in the crown’s case (Part 2 of 4).
*** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED AS THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ADULT THEMES AND DESCRIPTIONS THAT SOME LISTENERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING ***
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season 4, episode 28 of They Walk Among Us. |
| 0:26.4 | A podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 0:38.4 | Please listen to season 4, episode 27 for part 1 of this four-part case. |
| 0:48.6 | Listen a caution is advised. |
| 0:51.1 | This episode contains adult themes and descriptions that some listeners may find distressing. |
| 1:12.8 | In an opening statement at Lewis Crown Court, the jury of eight women and four men were told |
| 1:18.9 | by prosecutor Brian Leary QC that Russell Bishop had strangled both Nicola Fellows and Karen |
| 1:25.9 | Hadaway after their bodies were found in some vegetation close to the outskirts of Wild |
| 1:31.6 | Park in Brighton. |
| 1:33.3 | As there were no defensive wounds, the prosecutor explained this showed that the victims knew their |
| 1:39.9 | attacker. |
| 1:42.5 | Speaking about Karen Hadaway, the prosecutor said, somehow she arrived in that tangled |
| 1:48.4 | undergrowth together with her friend Nicola and when whoever it was put his hand around |
| 1:54.0 | her neck and squeezed. |
| 1:56.2 | It doesn't seem she struggled as you might expect if she had been attacked by some stranger. |
| 2:02.3 | It's plain upon the evidence that they went there not with a stranger, but somebody |
| 2:06.8 | they knew and trusted. |
| 2:10.8 | When Leary QC told the court that after the girl's finished school on October 9th, Nicola |
| 2:16.3 | arrived home. |
| 2:18.8 | Karen's mother Michelle was at the property. |
| 2:23.4 | Soon after several people called for the family's lodger, Dougie Judd. |
| 2:29.2 | These included Russell Bishop, who at the time was living with Jenny Johnson the mother |
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