Babes in the Wood murders: Sussex Police formally apologise for failings after 1986 schoolgirl murders

Sussex Police have formally apologised for failings in its initial investigations into the murders of nine-year-olds Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway in 1986.

The schoolgirls were sexually assaulted and strangled in woodland in Brighton by Russell Bishop.

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