The Murder of Jade Ward

REAL

Naomi Channell

Society & Culture, News, Documentary, True Crime

4.8 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 2021, Jade Ward finally broke up with the father of her 4 children, after years of enduring his controlling behaviour. He'd even booked them a secret wedding, in an attempt to 'keep her'. But Russell decided that if he couldn't have her, nobody else could either. Jade was murdered and her children were devestated at the loss of their caring and devoted mother, but from his prison cell, Russell was still controlling the children, because HE had parental rights. Until Jade's family decided enough was enough... and changed the law. This is REAL. If you'd like to support the show, you can do so here, thank you: https://patreon.com/REALtruecrimepodcast For more information on Edwin's work and Jade's law, see here: https://www.edwinduggan.co.uk/ And to buy his book 'Breaking the Chain' please see here: https://amzn.eu/d/6jZA6Pw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.0	Imagine this. Your father kills your mother.
0:50.8	Your father is sent to prison. But he still has parental responsibility for you. He can decide if you go on school trips. He can decide where you're educated, if you can travel,
0:57.0	and make decisions regarding your healthcare. Well, thankfully, in the UK, there is now a law
1:04.0	that's going to come into effect that will stop that from being the case. Children who have had
1:10.7	one parent take the life of another won't be
1:14.9	under that living parent's control. But behind this law, known as Jade's law, there's a mother
1:22.9	who will never see her four children again because of the evil actions of their father.
1:30.2	I'm Naomi Channel and this Israel.
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1:45.0	I'm
1:46.0	the Today's case takes us to Shotton in Flintshire, a small town in Wales on the border of England.
2:19.5	It's home to just over six and a half thousand people and in August 2021, it was home to
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