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About 60 firefighters tackled the blaze at a three-storey house in Hackney on Wednesday.

A man has been charged with arson after a house fire in east London.

A man has been charged with arson after fire destroyed a three-storey house and injured four people in Hackney.

A man has been charged with arson after fire destroyed a three-storey house and injured four people in Hackney.

Jennifer Johnson lied under oath at Russell Bishops first trial at Lewes Crown Court in 1987. He was on trial then for strangling nine-year-old schoolgirls Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway in Wild Park in Brighton in October 1986. But he escaped justice when a jury acquitted him. His then partner Jennifer Johnson, now aged 55, changed her story about a key piece of evidence, a blue Pinto sweatshirt. It linked Bishop to the crime scene and to the girls’ clothing. But after first tell...

THE FAMILIES of two murdered schoolgirls say justice has finally caught up with a woman “who thought she was untouchable”. Jennifer Johnson was found guilty over her lies to protect Babes in the Wood killer Russell Bishop so he could escape justice in 1987. He had stood trial for the murders of nine-year-olds Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, of Newick Road, Moulsecoomb, who were found dead in nearby Wild Park in 1986. Their families said she took the “cowards way out” not to te...

A POLICE chief said detectives had to be patient about bringing a case against the former partner of the Babes in the Wood killer. Chief Superintendent Nick May said the force had to wait until Russell Bishop was found guilty of the murders in Wild Park in 1986. A jury at The Old Bailey was presented with new DNA evidence linking the paedophile to the murders of Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, both aged nine, who were found dead. But it was only after this case had come to court that ...