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Many of us will go past the scene of the crime every match day.
RIP Karen and Nicola.
RIP Karen and Nicola.
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This coming Monday will be 30 years since the Wild Park murders.
Hopefully justice will be coming soon.
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alfredmizen
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Clear your pm mate I can't get mine through to you.
Clear your pm mate I can't get mine through to you.
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Lord Bracknell
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Has the person being referred to as "HE" been formally named by the authorities?
- Jul 10, 2003
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On 10th May 2016, a man was arrested for the murders. The suspect was initially not named for legal reasons
Apparently not
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What specific legal reasons?
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Crispy Ambulance
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I remember the evening it happened as vividly as if it was yesterday. Caught a bus home to Coldean from Thursday night football training at Brighton Boys Club. It was a very foggy & misty evening and, as the bus approached Wild Park, I could see a mass of lights and people in the gloom. It wasn't until the next day when it transpired why they were there and what had happened. So very sad and disappointing that no-one has been convicted for it -yet!
Naturally, the local rumour-mill swung into full force and we were subjected to the OB conducting house to house enquiries (as we had been a few years earlier when they were investigating the initial disappearance and subsequently murder of Margaret Frame, who lived on the estate and whose body was found near the entrance to Stanmer Woods, just over the road from the Hikers). That one also remains unsolved to this day.
I knew of the acquitted - he'd been in the next hospital bed to me when I had an op when I was younger- although I knew his older brothers better. The similarities with him and Huntley were remarkable, the main one being their visibly (on tv cameras) being involved in the searches after the disappearances were known.
The area where the girls bodies were found was close to the area where myself and my friends would access the park throughout our childhood. Going down the twitten at the end of Park Close and walking through the woods and across the steps until running down a small but steep bank and breaking our run/fall by hanging onto a wooden telegraph pole. From there, it was a couple of steps through the bushes until we were on the bank on the right as you drove in.
I recall that, a few weeks after the murders, going to the park via the route described above. When I got to the telegraph pole, I looked along and, through the bushes, there was a bloke who I assumed to be plain clothes OB. Shit me up a bit did that!!
ANway, RIP Nicola and Karen. Hopefully one day you'll get justice and closure.
Naturally, the local rumour-mill swung into full force and we were subjected to the OB conducting house to house enquiries (as we had been a few years earlier when they were investigating the initial disappearance and subsequently murder of Margaret Frame, who lived on the estate and whose body was found near the entrance to Stanmer Woods, just over the road from the Hikers). That one also remains unsolved to this day.
I knew of the acquitted - he'd been in the next hospital bed to me when I had an op when I was younger- although I knew his older brothers better. The similarities with him and Huntley were remarkable, the main one being their visibly (on tv cameras) being involved in the searches after the disappearances were known.
The area where the girls bodies were found was close to the area where myself and my friends would access the park throughout our childhood. Going down the twitten at the end of Park Close and walking through the woods and across the steps until running down a small but steep bank and breaking our run/fall by hanging onto a wooden telegraph pole. From there, it was a couple of steps through the bushes until we were on the bank on the right as you drove in.
I recall that, a few weeks after the murders, going to the park via the route described above. When I got to the telegraph pole, I looked along and, through the bushes, there was a bloke who I assumed to be plain clothes OB. Shit me up a bit did that!!
ANway, RIP Nicola and Karen. Hopefully one day you'll get justice and closure.
AmexRuislip
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babes_in_the_Wood_murders_(Wild_Park)
That Kennedy moment for me.
Oct 1986, coming out of the RAF careers office in Brighton with a job.
The date always stuck in back of mind.
That Kennedy moment for me.
Oct 1986, coming out of the RAF careers office in Brighton with a job.
The date always stuck in back of mind.
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By all means use this thread for reminiscing or paying your respects.
Please do not use it- or any other thread- for speculation/ conjecture on the subject, or it will be removed.
Thanks.
Please do not use it- or any other thread- for speculation/ conjecture on the subject, or it will be removed.
Thanks.
Pretty certain the day after, we played Ipswich at Portman Road, ridiculous as it sounds a whole bunch of fans me included didn't actually make it to the game as the train broke down between Liverpool St and Colchester!!!
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Shropshire Seagull
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Was this the case where OB were fairly sure they knew the perpetrator but couldn't find the evidence to nail him/her?
I remember the Sarah Payne case well as my elder daughter was the same age and her photo bore an uncanny resemblance - Roy Whiting was convicted [eventually] for that.
There was also another case where the lass survived - dumped up near the top of Devil's Dyke?
All very sad, the two Soham girls too ....
I remember the Sarah Payne case well as my elder daughter was the same age and her photo bore an uncanny resemblance - Roy Whiting was convicted [eventually] for that.
There was also another case where the lass survived - dumped up near the top of Devil's Dyke?
All very sad, the two Soham girls too ....