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23/08/2024

📌 Shocking moment man slaps Nando's employee with plate in 'unprovoked' assault

Please share and if you recognise him, inform the police!

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/shocking-moment-man-slaps-nandos-employee-with-plate-stratford/

13/08/2024

04/08/2024

We still need your help - Ashley Dighton

Ashley’s last sighting was on 11 of June 2007 walking towards a wooded area known as “The Dip”. The last eyewitness was the security guard at the local Sainsbury’s in Ashford Kent.

A month later 11 July 2007 his body was found in the “Dip” yards from his last sighting.

Ashleys family have continued to campaign for information over the years and good information has been obtained but more is needed.

We ask you to cast your mind back June 2007 was anything said to you regarding Ashley’s death?
Was anyone acting strangely around that time ?

Any information at all

Call or Email 101 Kent police quoting Operation Mortlake

Contact Crimestoppers

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We can offer support and advice in reporting information or report or your behalf Anon.

16/06/2024

Death Of A Brighton Schoolboy Keith Lyon

Keith lived with his family, parents Valda and Ken Lyon, and younger brother Peter, in the village of Ovingdean.
Saturday, the 6th May 1967, was a lovely sunny day, also it was pocket-money day. 12 year old Keith had 4 shillings (just over £3 today), and wanted to spend it on a geometry set and compass that he needed for his homework. Ovingdean had only a single shop, and there was a bit more variety of shops in nearby Woodingdean, Keith decided that Saturday afternoon to make the short journey to the next village and back. Setting off at around 3pm, Keith headed off to Woodingdean on foot, walking along the bridle path that connected the two villages and that ran through Happy Valley.
Just over an hour later, at approximately 4:15pm, a 16-year-old girl was out dog walking in the area. Found Lying on a grass bank at the side of the path, heavily bloodstained and clearly dead, was the body of a young boy clothed in a grammar school uniform. It was Keith; he had been stabbed to death and left at the side of the path. The girl immediately fled in fear and contacted police, who arrived at the scene quickly and cordoned the area off.
Looking at the body in situ, Keith’s clothing had not been disturbed, but his trouser pockets had been turned out, and his money and a set of keys was missing. He was heavily bloodstained (a pathologist noted 11 separate stab wounds to his stomach, back and chest area) and there was no sign of a murder weapon at the scene. It was imperative that the police enquiry got off to the best and most proactive start.
As a massive house to house enquiry got underway, a makeshift incident room was set up immediately at a nearby primary school, and a massive search of the area was undertaken by police, who had extra officers drafted in from all over Sussex. Police search teams and dog handlers were used to search fields, woods, farm buildings and empty premises, looking for Keith’s abandoned keys or more importantly, a murder weapon. This was believed to be a sharp, serrated knife. Assisting police in their search was the use of a powerful magnetic mine detector from nearby Aldemaston Camp, which was capable of drawing out metal from inches underneath the ground. However, this failed to find anything in the immediate areas of the murder scene that police searched.
But a bloodstained, serrated knife with a broken tip was found a day or so later near the rear of nearby Fitzherbert School, and handed in to police by schoolboys. The blood on the knife was found to be of the same blood type as Keith’s.
Two women who lived nearby came forward to say that on the same day and around the time Keith was murdered, they saw four youths involved in a scuffle near the path – in fact the witnesses used the word 'sparring'. They did not intervene however, and later saw three youths fleeing across nearby fields. A local bus driver also came forward to say that on the afternoon in question, two youths had been passengers on the No 3 bus he was driving to the nearby Whitehawk estate, and both were in an 'agitated' state. They had got on at Vines Cross Road and stayed on until the Whitehawk Garage stop, before getting off in a 'blind panic'.
After the two women and the bus driver had come forward as witnesses, police adopted the view that Keith’s killers were a gang of local youths and his murder was a result of a robbery having gone wrong. There was evidence to support this – Keith’s killer(s) would have been significantly bloodstained, and evidence was found to suggest that the murderer had used a nearby public lavatory in Lawn Memorial Park to clean up. A public lavatory that would have only been apparent to someone living in the locality. A mass questioning and fingerprinting of local youths got underway – but even though thousands were spoken to and fingerprinted over the course of the enquiry, this did not lead to any arrests.
Although Keith’s murder has today fallen into the category of a cold case subject to periodic reviews over the years, it still creates headlines from time to time. An appeal had been made a number of times on Crimewatch UK, and in the mid 2000’s, three men in their 50’s were arrested on suspicion of murder, but were ultimately released and not charged . None of these men were ever named, and there is no record of what led to their arrests. But it is reported that police now have partial DNA evidence that could link the murderer to the scene. As forensic examination has evolved in the years following Keith’s murder, technology now exists that has enabled scientists to obtain a workable DNA sample from the evidence that was presumed lost for so many years, namely Keith’s clothing. But of course, a match for this DNA profile has so far remained elusive from the DNA database.

Any information contact
Sussex Police via 101

Alternatively call Crimestoppers Hotline on 0800 555111. Calls to Crimestoppers are free, you do not have to give your name and you may be eligible for a reward.

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11/06/2024

Ashley Dighton - it’s time to talk.

Ashley’s last sighting was on 11 of June 2007 walking towards a wooded area known as “The Dip”. The last eyewitness was the security guard at the local Sainsbury’s in Ashford Kent.

A month later 11 July 2007 his body was found in the “Dip” yards from his last sighting.

Ashleys family have continued to campaign for information over the years and good information has been obtained but more is needed.

We ask you to cast your mind back June 2007 was anything said to you regarding Ashley’s death?
Was anyone acting strangely around that time ?

Any information at all

Call or Email 101 Kent police quoting Operation Mortlake

Contact Crimestoppers

Speak to admins and mods
We can offer support and advice in reporting information or report or your behalf Anon.

03/06/2024

Good News! Sarah has has been found !

Hi everyone hope you all well ..
Im trying to locate my sister Sarah pepper also known as Sarah Thomas
She lives a very chaotic life with drugs , drink and begging ect ..
My sister fell of the face of the earth it seems or she just don't want to be found ..
Her partner died next to her and since then no one heard from her .I've contacted the police and there not willing to help me , I've contacted her solicitor she not in prison and hospital can't help me as I'm not next of kin ..
My sister out there thinking no one cares about her but I'm trying my best to locate her to let her know I care and love her ..
She somewhere in the Bedfordshire area (last know area ).
Much grateful if anyone could help me locate my sister and get a massage to her I'd be much grateful 🙏
Thank you for taking time to read

26/05/2024

We need your help in solving a murder Sarah Benford - April 2000 only 14 years old.

It was April 2000 that 14-year-old Sarah Benford walked to an amusement arcade in Kettering town centre to meet her mother.
This was the last time Sarah was seen by her mother.

The death of Sarah’s uncle triggered her to seek solace and comfort in older people in Kettering and fell deeper into drug use. This appears to have affected her so deeply she appeared set on self distraction and harm.

Sadly by the age of 14 she'd resided in three different children's homes. She became addicted to He**in and co***ne and as many trouble young people who are screaming out for help she was self-harming and running away.

She resided in Raven House Children's Home in Corby and Welford House children's home in Northampton.

There were some sightings in the days following her disappearance in the area of cherry Road. It’s also thought that she travelled to Finchley London to be further exploited.

The day Sarah went missing she was wear a black puffa jacket, blue patchwork jeans and cream trainers.

Police later said there had been confirmed sightings of her until April 19, but that there have been no further sightings.
Over the years Police have said that are confident they know who killed Sarah, but they need help from the people of Kettering to find the evidence.

Sarah was 5ft 7in with blue / grey eyes and a self-made tattoo of a cross on the top of her arm.

If you know anything about Sarah's murder that you think might help the investigation, you can contact Northamptonshire Police on 101.

Alternatively call Crimestoppers Hotline on 0800 555111. Calls to Crimestoppers are free, you do not have to give your name and you may be eligible for a reward.

Talk to Criminology sisters Admins we can help with reporting and offer advice keeping you Anonymous.
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06/05/2024

Why is the a wall of silence around the brutal murder of Hannah Deterville?

Hannah, was last seen by her mother at approximately 19:00 on the 2/1/1998
She went to the busy Harrow road where she was on first name terms with many shop keepers - she was seen arguing with a male outside the wool shop.
How did no one see this?

Hannah’s mother who is now sadly deceased asked Hannah’s friends for help. No one would give any information.

I cannot comprehend how those who know what happened to this beautiful 15 year old girl won’t come forward.
Hannah was stabbed over 20 times in the face and neck and dumped in woodland at Horsenden Hill.

Come on people it’s time to talk about Hannah.

There are so many ways to pass information in the strictest of confidence.

Criminology Sisters can take information anonymously and offer advice and support

Met police quoting operation Maidstone via 101 or online.

Alternatively call Crimestoppers Hotline on 0800 555111. Calls to Crimestoppers are free, you do not have to give your name and you may be eligible for a reward.

15/04/2024

Ameer could be in Harrow or anywhere in London.
His mum is extremely worried.

13/04/2024

Hannah Deterville - can you help solve a murder?

Hannah, was last seen by her mother at approximately 19:00 on the 2/1/1998

Hannah was well-recognised on the Harrow Road and she was on first-name terms with many shopkeepers.
But on the evening of 2/1/1998 she became strangely invisible. If you saw her, and for what ever reason you could not talk at the time, it’s never too late.

Hannah knew the area well and is thought to have got into a vehicle of somebody she knew. Who was this? Did you see this?

Sadly her body was found close to a golf course at Horsenden Hill in Greenford, an area popular with walkers and dog owners. She had been stabbed over 20 times.

Police were alerted after an anonymous call to the Gay and Le***an Switchboard, I urge this person to come forward. If you are reading this you have important information that could help give Hannah’s family peace.
I also understand that those who have information, that this must have impacted upon your well being. Coming forward will help.

Hannah was a 15 year old girl, she had her whole life ahead of her.
Sadly Hannah’s mother June passed away not knowing what happened to her beautiful daughter. Hannah’s family need answers.

There are so many ways to pass information in the strictest of confidence.

Criminology Sisters can take information anonymously and offer advice and support

Met police quoting operation Maidstone via 101 or online.

Alternatively call Crimestoppers Hotline on 0800 555111. Calls to Crimestoppers are free, you do not have to give your name and you may be eligible for a reward.

31/03/2024

Jack O'Sullivan was last seen walking near Bristol city centre, along Brunel Lock Road, on Saturday, March 2 at 3.15am, having attended a birthday party in the Hotwells area.
At 3.24am, he had attempted to make a call to a friend who was still at the party, but when the friend called back ten minutes later, Mr O'Sullivan answered but only managed to say "hello" before the line cut out. His phone remained active on the Find My Friends app until 6.44am.

Detective inspector Jason Chidgey, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: “This is an extremely distressing time for the loved ones of Jack and we’re continuing to carry out urgent enquiries to establish what happened to him. We’re keen for the public to focus on the time of the last confirmed sighting and we still want to speak to anyone driving on the Cumberland Basin around this time, as well as anyone driving outbound towards Ashton, as they may have dashcam footage which could help us.
“We previously issued a CCTV image showing a person in Hotwell Road at around 5.40am the same day. Following further enquiries, we’ve now established this was not Jack.
"We’re in daily contact with Jack’s family to keep them updated on the progress of our investigation and to ensure they have the help and support they need. To date we’ve carried out an extensive CCTV trawl as well as searches of the local area, including the deployment of our specialist dive team to search the river Avon.

He was wearing a quilted green/brown Barbour jacket over a beige woollen jumper, with navy chinos and brown leather trainers with white soles

If you know where Jack is now, or were driving in the Hotwell Road and Cumberland Basin Road area, please call 999 and give the reference 5224055172, or ring 101 with any other information

Criminology Sisters can take information anonymously and liase with police in the strictest of confidence.

20/03/2024

Tracey should be celebrating her birthday today.

Tracey Meade was last seen by family after spending the night with relatives on the Warwick estate on Kensal rise on Monday 20 January 1992 at 19:00. She asked her mum for her bus fare £2 for school the next day as she was going to stay with her Aunt who lived also in Kensal Rise. Earlier that day she had spent time at Lothrop Street, North Kensington with her grandmother.

Tracey left at 19:00 from the Warwick Estate to walk to her Aunts in Kensal Rise. She never arrived.

Wednesday the 22 January. 1992 at 17:00

As she crossed the Half Penny Steps Bridge on Harrow Road at approximately 5pm, a girl noticed Tracy arguing with a boy underneath the bridge. He was described as:
* Slightly taller that Tracy;
* Fair hair;
* Wearing a white baseball cap.

Where had she been ?
Where was she staying?
Why?
Who was this boy?

Friday 31st January 1992 13:30

A girl matching Tracy’s description was seen in Shepherd’s Bush.

The girl had asked a woman for directions to “Adam’s Cafe”,

The girl explained that she was supposed to be meeting her boyfriend and his friends in Adam’s Cafe, and it was at the market that they parted ways.

4:30pm approx: Two girls went into Cooke’s Pie and Eel Shop on the Goldhawk Road. The woman who served them described them as clean and tidy but looking “tired” and suspected they were sleeping rough. The girls ordered pies and left.

Another reported sighting occured on the same day. Tracy was apparently seen leaving the Yin Yo Chinese restaurant on the Goldhawk Road. She was with a Scottish, black male who was heard to say “Let’s go home Tracy.”

Tracey had only £2 how did she get to Shepherds Bush?

Tracey had no known connections in Shepherds Bush, who was there ?

Tracey was not known to have a boyfriend who was this person and his friends?

Why was she coming out of a Chinese restaurant she had a pie earlier in the afternoon and how did she pay for food with £2?

Who was the black male with a Scottish accent and why did he say “Tracey let’s go home” ?

Where was this “home”?

Tracey had plenty of family members and friends she would stay with. She always stayed in touch with her family.

SATURDAY 1st FEBRUARY 1992 at 15:30
A fisherman discovered Tracy’s body in the Grand Union Canal near Kensal Rise.

Tracy had two knife wounds to her body and was partially clothed. Her missing clothes were found in two locations alongside the canal.

It was a dark, foggy cold night on 31st January 1992, and police believe Tracy headed willingly to the Mitre Bridge over the Grand Union Canal that evening.

Tracey knew her own mind and was streetwise she would not have gone to that location with strangers.

Why did Tracey feel the need to stay away for two weeks ? Something she would never do. Tracey simply didn’t have any known reason to do this. She had no history of going off without letting people know where she was.

How can £2 last two weeks?

Tracey was not known to be easily manipulated or bullied. She would stand her ground.

The actions don’t add up, the geography isn’t right. THIS IS NOT WHAT TRACEY WOULD DO!

This is the crime watch link please view

https://youtu.be/9BZtZ6Rb-wE

What do you think ?

Anyone with information is asked to contact Met police Via 101

Alternatively call Crimestoppers Hotline on 0800 555111. Calls to Crimestoppers are free, you do not have to give your name and you may be eligible for a reward.

Email [email protected]

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10/03/2024

Can you help solve a murder ?

Ashley Dighton and his family need your help.

Someone somewhere in the Ashford area guards the most gruesome and heinous of secrets. Does someone somewhere know something? I rather suspect someone does.

Ashley Dighton 19 years old was last seen on the 11 of June 2007 walking towards a wooded area known as “The Dip”. The last eyewitness was the security guard Lucas Brezezinski at Sainsbury’s
His body being discovered on 11 July 2007 in the same area in woodland (near the dip) behind Sainsbury's supermarket in Ashford, Kent.

Kent police 101 Operation Mortlake
Crimestoppers
Admins at Criminology Sisters
All information taken in the strictest of confidence.

04/03/2024

Did you know Dave ? Know to be connected to Galway, Exeter, Cornwall and Tunbridge Wells

The Gardaí at Salthill Garda Station are appealing for information in relation to the discovery of human remains at 158 Upper Salthill on the 17th April 2002.
The owner of this property was carrying out excavation work in the back garden and discovered human remains wrapped up in a sleeping bag buried in a shallow grave. There were also a number of items of clothing including, boots, jewellery and hair ties in the sleeping bag.
A full examination of the scene was carried out and a post mortem on the remains. An investigation was launched with Gardaí establishing that this property was used as a squat over the years by a number of people. Their enquiries led them to a man known as “Dave”, who busked around Galway, particularly on Shop Street, an area known locally as “the four corners”. He played guitar and tin whistle. He always had his pet collie dog with him.
Gardaí believe Dave was originally from the United Kingdom and the last known sighting of him was in 1999. Gardaí believe he was buried at 158 Upper Salthill almost two years before his remains were discovered. Gardaí also believe he may have been known as “Dave Rawson” or “Dave Tang”, but are unsure if that was his real name.
Appeal:
* Can you assist with identifying Dave?
* Were you living in Galway back in 1999 when it is believed Dave Tang died? Did you know him or any of his friends / associates?
* Housemates described him making phone calls to family in England, possibly in the Exeter area, using numbers in his black notebook. There was also information connecting him to the Tunbridge Wells and Cornwall areas of Southern England.
* His dog licence was registered under the name ‘Dave Rawson’ – unfortunately this may not have been his real name and hasn’t yielded any positive results.
* If you feel that you can assist Gardaí after all these years, please get in touch. We would like to assure you that you will be treated with the utmost sensitivity and compassion.
Description of Dave:
* He was a well-established figure on the busking scene in Galway, often playing the guitar in and around Lynch’s Castle on Shop Street.
* He was very recognisable – carried around a black notebook and wore bangles on his wrists – he had a sort of ‘New Age’ appearance/style of dress.
* Collie dog he would walk on a blue nylon rope and wore Northridge boots.
* He was a very good musician – It is thought he may have been classically trained and well-educated.

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26/02/2024

Can you help solve a murder?

On February 17th 1996 Kevin Nightingale was brutally murdered on his own doorstep.

Kevin was a 33 year old nightclub doorman.On the night he was killed Mr Nightingale, who worked at the former Oz nightclub in South Shields, had got a lift with colleagues.
Moments later he was shot several times outside the Drake Close home South Tyneside he shared with his partner and young children.
Although there have been two cases taken to court the case still remains unsolved.
Kevin’s family can’t rest until they know why this happened to Kevin.

Anyone with any information is asked to call Northumbria Police on 101 or the independent charity Crimestoppers which will take information anonymously on 0800 555 111 ( or online)

You can also contact Criminology Sisters via Admin

who can pass information anonymously on your behalf to police and offer advice regarding police and court procedures .
There is a reward for information given.

24/02/2024

Cian Langelaan - Can you help?

Cian Langelaan from Donegal first went missing from the Falcarragh area of Donegal back in September 24, 2020.

Cian may have boarded a bus on September 29th 2020 in Dunfanaghy which was travelling through Sligo and onto Galway.

Cian is described as being approximately 5’8″ with a medium build, sandy hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt and black boots.

Please anyone with any information

Contact

Milford Garda Station on (074) 91 53060 or the National Missing Persons Helpline 1800 442 552.

Criminology Sisters Can take information Anonymously and pass to the police.

22/01/2024

Appeal 30 years after Bracknell murder of seven-year-old Stacey Queripel.

Police have appealed for help to find the killer of a seven-year-old girl on the 30th anniversary of her murder.
Stacey Queripel went missing from her home in Ladybank, Bracknell, on 24 January 1993.
Her body was found later the same day by a police dog handler in woodland near the town's South Hill Park.
Despite an in-depth investigation, there has never been sufficient evidence to charge anyone with her murder, Thames Valley Police said.
Peter Beirne, head of the force's major crime investigation review team, said he believes there are people who have "information or suspicions about Stacey's murder, but for whatever reason have yet to inform the police".
"The time has come to provide that information," he added.
A post-mortem examination concluded cause of death was strangulation, and later an inquest recorded Stacey's death as unlawful killing.
"My team will never stop investigating cold case murders," said Mr Beirne.
He continued: "We are determined to discover the truth about what happened to Stacey, so I reiterate again that if anyone has any information or even a suspicion as to what happened, please contact Thames Valley Police or Crimestoppers today.
"Get that burden off your shoulders and let us investigate any information that you have."

“If you have any suspicions whatsoever, we want to hear from you. You can report any suspicions or information by emailing [email protected] visiting our website, calling 101, or visiting a police station, quoting reference 650 (23/1).

Criminology Sisters can also take information anon and pass to the police. We also offer help and advice regarding police and court procedures

20/01/2024

Appeal for the unsolved murder of Ann Ballantine in 1987

The 20-year-old's decomposed body was found in Edinburgh's Union Canal on January 21 1987, yards from her flat.

Ann’s family and friends need answers as to what happened to their beautiful daughter.

Any information please contact

https://www.scotland.police.uk/your-community/the-lothians-and-scottish-borders/

Call or report online Anon to Crimestoppers
0800 555111

Criminology Sisters will take information anon and contact the police.
We also offer advice regarding police procedures. This is all in complete confidence.

23/12/2023

Dear Members and Admin,

Ashley Dighton should be spending Christmas with his family.

Ashley Dighton 19 years old was last seen on 11 of June 2007 walking towards a wooded area known as “The Dip”.
His body being discovered on 11 July 2007 in the same area in woodland (near the dip) behind Sainsbury's supermarket in Ashford, Kent.

Ashley’s family need to know why this happened to Ashley.

We understand people are worried about giving information, Criminology Sisters can take information anonymously and give advice and support in reporting.

Contacts

Kent police 101 Operation Mortlake
Crimestoppers

Call or report online Anon to Crimestoppers
0800 555111
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23/12/2023

Dear Members and Admin

Please can I ask you to think back to 1998.
On May 21 1998, 16 year old Carmel Fenech left Camberwell magistrates Court and has not been seen since.
We know that you might be afraid to come forward with information but Criminology Sisters can keep you Anon and offer advice and support.
There is no judgment, there is no concern re petty offences we just need to know what happened to Carmel.
On behalf of Carmel’s family and friends please give us any information, even the smallest piece of gossip you may have heard or who she associated with, It really does help.

Let’s work together and help Carmel’s family and friends get answers.

There is also a 20k reward.

Contact

Dial 101 Sussex and Surrey Police quoting operation Icon.

Call or report online Anon to Crimestoppers
0800 555111

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18/12/2023

Nicola Payne - The murder of a young mother

Nicola Payne was an 18 year old mother of a seven month old baby boy called Owen.
She was last seen on December 14, 1991 leaving the home of her boyfriend and father of her child Jason Cooke’s home on Winston Avenue in Coventry.
At around noon she left Owen and Jason together to make a short half mile trip to her parents home on Woodway Close to pick up some baby clothes.
This was a normal route taken by Nicola through a wooded and secluded area known as black pad.
Nicolas father John Payne became worried when thirty minutes passed and Nicola had not arrived. He searched the local area and became more concerned as there was no sign of Nicola.
West Midlands police were called and began a large scale search operation. Nicola’s boyfriend Jason Cooke was quickly questioned, investigated and was ruled out as a person of interest.
The high level search did not lead to the discovery of Nicola.

There appeared to be no significant leads until April 1996. A home occupied by a 59 year old woman and her 26 year old son close to where Nicola’s parents lived in Wood End became the subject of forensic examination.
Radar machines were used to check disturbed soil. It seemed that 3 areas were of interest one being under the shed. However after 12 hours searching there was still no significant leads and the search was halted.
Police were given information in 2001 that led to a part of the Oxford Canal in Ansty being dredged.
Later that year bones were uncovered in the location Nicola was last seen. After forensic investigations these were deemed animal bones.
June 2008 a further garden was excavated, this was on Winston Avenue and extremely close to Nicolas boyfriend Jason Coombes home. Again nothing was found. Further information led police to Courthouse Green in 2012 there was still nothing found.

March 2014, police officers searched Coombe Abbey Park. This area became of strong forensic interest as items were recovered.

After a search in February 2015 of Hales Industrial Estate of Rowley’s Green Lane which resulted in nothing being found the search returned to Coombe County Park in 2016, as Police were contacted and advised that two men were seen beside the fishing lake acting in a suspicious manner on the day Nicola went missing. This led to an extensive search of the area again

From the start of the investigation there were a number of arrests. The first being on December 17,1991 soon after Nicola went missing.
Former warehouse worker Nigel Barwell and his brother-in-law Thomas O’Reilly. They used an alibi of being stuck in a broken down vehicle in Rugby, Warwickshire at the time Nicola went missing. There was not enough evidence for them to be charged by the Crown Prosecution Service as a witness was unable to identify them in a police line up in 1992.
Frustratingly the men were released without charge.
However in 2007 Malcolm Brannan 37 years old, and a former resident on Winston Avenue at the time Nicola was last seen in 1991 was arrested for the kidnap and Murder of Nicola. He had stated he was completing some repairs on his vehicle and saw Nicola walking towards Black Pad. There must have been much further information suggesting his involvement to be arrested than this. After a forensic examination of his former and current property (Derbyshire) he was released without charge.
Arrests followed in 2012 Patrick Judge, 74 and his son, Keith, 45 were arrested in Coventry on suspicion of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body. This is a common law offence.
Examples of the offence are

detaining a body, for instance upon a claim for fees or a debt, refusing to deliver it to the executors for burial, or when entrusted with it for burial selling for dissection.
Burning a body instead of burying it was not illegal.[4] It is now an offence to burn a body otherwise than in an approved crematorium.[5]
Disposing of the dead body of a child with intent to conceal the birth (regardless as to when the child died) is a different offence; that under section 60 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.[6]

Again after forensic examinations of the properties and further investigation the men were released without charge in 2012.

I might add once again for all those arrested there would have been some strong link or proof that they either had knowledge of what happened to Nicola or abetting the crime, withholding information or assisted in disposing of Nicola. It is rare to be implicated without any cause.

In Dec 2013 further evidence secured the arrest and charge approval of murder from the Crown Prosecution Service for Nigel Barwell and Thomas O’Reilly. There was also a 51 year old female arrested for perverting the course of justice (f someone perverts the course of justice, they deliberately do something that will make it difficult to discover who really committed a particular crime, for example, destroying evidence or lying to the police. [law] He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.)
Both men denied killing Nicola.

Barwell and O’Reilly stood trial at Birmingham Crown Court for The Murder of Nicola Payne in 2015. Two witnesses testified that the defendants admitted to the murder or Nicola and asked them to provide an alibi.
Further evidence was given that a witness overheard an argument in which a female at Barwells house was mentioned in February 1992 whilst driving the defendant’s.
When asked by barristers what the witness believed the argument had been about he initially thought it was Barwell being in faithful “ playing away” however the witness stated Barwell had said : “I wasn’t playing about, I did that Payne bird.”
Furthermore Barwell’s brother-in-law O’Reilly, added: “You don’t know the half of it.” Also a further “friend” of the defendants in Dec 91 asked the witness to lie to the police and advise he was with the defendants at a specific time. He refused this request.
The second witness claimed Barwell told him they ( the defendants) killed Nicola and they had asked him to lie using the false information that he was with the defendant’s in Rugby when Nicola disappeared.when cross examined the witness was asked how Barwell killed Nicola he replied: “He didn’t say and I didn’t ask.”
“He said he killed Nicola Payne and asked for an alibi for the day she went missing.” (“Nicola Payne Trial: Accused Nigel Barwell ‘Admitted Killing'” 2015)

Forensic evidence was lost during the investigation such as Nicolas hairbrush
Most significantly and frustrating was a tent found hidden in foliage in Barwells garden five days after Nicola went missing. The tent contained p***c hair when DNA tested years later showed it was “900 million times more likely to belong to Nicola than anyone else.” Sadly, the tent was not stored in a sealed bag and therefore could not be presented as evidence due to the risk of cross contamination.

A further witness on the day Nicola went missing heard tyres on gravel outside of his home. Twenty Minutes later he heard a raised female voice. He could not see anyone through the fog but believed he saw a light coloured car.
Another witness heard a scream coming from Black Pad at the time Nicola went missing and was adamant this was not the scream of a child.

Barwell was witnessed cleaning his car on the day Nicola went missing. She thought this was unusual as she had never seen him cleaning his car before and it seemed he was using strong detergent.

Nicolas brother Nigel told the court that Michael Cooke ( Nicolas boyfriend’s brother) and Barwell had attempted to chat Nicola up in a local pub named The Red Lion. Nicola was Angry and upset and told Nigel she was “having problems” with the pair who would not stop chatting her up even though she was with Michael’s younger brother.
This has not just been an issue that night and it seems that this was an ongoing annoyance when Nicola went to the pub. Nigel confronted the pair, however they denied doing this.

After a six week long trial the verdict was not guilty. This has caused understandable distress and outrage to Nicolas family and friends.

Final thoughts

Sadly in my opinion there has been a miscarriage of justice. There is a huge plethora of evidence that points to Barwell and O’Reilly being guilty of Nicolas murder. Furthermore Coombe Country park has been searched by police numerous times.
For police to make an arrest in cases such as murder there does have to be a large amount of evidence and to be accepted as a charge by the CPS needs to hold enough evidence for a conviction.
I feel there are a fair few involved in this case, I can see from Barwells past he is a dubious character and his partner was murdered in a professional hit meant for him…
Are people covering for Barwell? I think so. We’re all arrested a group of like minded men who would not accept a woman saying “no”?

What do you think?
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