Bishop, prosecutor Brian Altman QC told the court, is a sex attacker “whose latent aggression lies just below the surface”
Mr Altman invited the jurors to ask themselves how Mr Fellows could have killed the two girls on his way home from work, given on that journey he also went into a butcher’s in George Street, Hove, to buy some ham for his tea.
Could he really, Mr Altman asked, “have killed the girls in the den, all the while with the George Street butcher’s ham under his arm or in his hand? None of it works”.
The prosecutor added that
Marion Stevenson, who told the
News of the World about the video allegation in a story published three days after the 1987 trial, was a “wholly unreliable witness” who had been drinking and smoking pot and may have misremembered things.
Mr Altman said Ms Stevenson, who was 16 at the time, had been put up to speaking by Bishop’s “domineering” mother.
In the immediate aftermath of Bishop being acquitted in 1987, Mr Altman said the aim may have been to highlight his innocence and, possibly, to claim compensation and damages for his arrest and prosecution.
But in 1990, the court has heard, Bishop
abducted, strangled and sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl.
Having been convicted of that sex attack, the court heard, Bishop has spent the last 28 years in jail as a high-risk Category A prisoner.
Predatory paedophile Russell Bishop ‘scraping barrel’ by accusing girl’s father of child murder, court hears
