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Helena LeeVerified account @BBCHelenaLee Dec 7
The #russellbishop trial continues. Russell Bishop is charged with murdering two Brighton schoolgirls in 1986. He denies the charges.
Russell Bishop isn’t in the dock. The jury was told on Tuesday by the Judge that he has chosen not to attend. The 52-year-old had been at his trial everyday up until Tuesday.
The girls families are sitting at the back of the court. Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows were found dead less than a day after they went missing in Brighton 32 years ago. They were both nine.
The trial is now into its 7th week. The jury has been told they will be sent out to deliberate verdicts on Monday.
The Judge is continuing summing up the case for the jury.
The Judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, is going through events of 9th October 1986. That’s the day the girls went missing.
Judge is reminding the jury of the evidence heard in court. Mr Justice Sweeney reminds jury how the girls left home for school on the day they went missing (they went to different schools).
Judge reminds jury the defendant told them he went out on the morning of 9th October 1986 to go digging for fishing bait. He then said he went home and had a row with his partner.
Judge reminds jury that the defendant told them in evidence he went to a car park at Sussex University to try and steal a car. That was he said on the afternoon of the 9th October (girls went missing that evening)
Judge reminds the jury that Karen Hadaway went out to play after school as did Nicola Fellows on the 9th October 1986. Jury heard how Karen told her mother she wouldn’t be long and that Nicola’s mother, Susan Fellows, saw the girls on the street talking at around 5pm.
Judge: “That was to be the last time either mother would see their daughter alive”.
Judge: At around 5.20pm on 9th October 1986 Karen’s mother Michelle Hadaway thought her daughter should have been back by then. The jury heard how Mrs Hadaway joined Nicola’s mother Susan Fellows to search for the girls.
Judge is reminding jury about witnesses who saw the girls on the evening of 9th October 1986 (the night they went missing). The girls were seen by witness outside a chip shop - close to Wild Park where they were found.
Jury will return to the Old Bailey on Monday when the Judge will go through some further evidence with them before sending them out to start deliberations.
4:39 PM - 7 Dec 2018
Helena LeeVerified account @BBCHelenaLee Dec 7
The #russellbishop trial continues. Russell Bishop is charged with murdering two Brighton schoolgirls in 1986. He denies the charges.
Russell Bishop isn’t in the dock. The jury was told on Tuesday by the Judge that he has chosen not to attend. The 52-year-old had been at his trial everyday up until Tuesday.
The girls families are sitting at the back of the court. Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows were found dead less than a day after they went missing in Brighton 32 years ago. They were both nine.
The trial is now into its 7th week. The jury has been told they will be sent out to deliberate verdicts on Monday.
The Judge is continuing summing up the case for the jury.
The Judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, is going through events of 9th October 1986. That’s the day the girls went missing.
Judge is reminding the jury of the evidence heard in court. Mr Justice Sweeney reminds jury how the girls left home for school on the day they went missing (they went to different schools).
Judge reminds jury the defendant told them he went out on the morning of 9th October 1986 to go digging for fishing bait. He then said he went home and had a row with his partner.
Judge reminds jury that the defendant told them in evidence he went to a car park at Sussex University to try and steal a car. That was he said on the afternoon of the 9th October (girls went missing that evening)
Judge reminds the jury that Karen Hadaway went out to play after school as did Nicola Fellows on the 9th October 1986. Jury heard how Karen told her mother she wouldn’t be long and that Nicola’s mother, Susan Fellows, saw the girls on the street talking at around 5pm.
Judge: “That was to be the last time either mother would see their daughter alive”.
Judge: At around 5.20pm on 9th October 1986 Karen’s mother Michelle Hadaway thought her daughter should have been back by then. The jury heard how Mrs Hadaway joined Nicola’s mother Susan Fellows to search for the girls.
Judge is reminding jury about witnesses who saw the girls on the evening of 9th October 1986 (the night they went missing). The girls were seen by witness outside a chip shop - close to Wild Park where they were found.
Jury will return to the Old Bailey on Monday when the Judge will go through some further evidence with them before sending them out to start deliberations.
4:39 PM - 7 Dec 2018
