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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 tell the police or the court the truth. Jennifer Johnson Johnson, now aged 55, originally told polic...

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 officers could then investigate Jennifer Johnson’s role in helping her former partner evade justic...