Top cop’s high-profile casebook
Police chief who helped nail Milly Dowler murderer gives dire warning
EX-COP Kevin Moore worked on some of the UK’s biggest cases. Mr Moore was drafted in to lead a review into Surrey Police’s probe. Sussex Police made a series of recommendations before the teen’s body was found. Levi Bellfield – who took the lives of two other women – was convicted of murdering Milly, from Walton-onThames. Mr Moore said: “This high profile case was really good experience. It highlighted the highly sensitive nature that such matters generate.”
In 1997, Sion Jenkins was convicted of killing foster daughter Billie-Jo, 13, and jailed for life. Six years later Mr Jenkins, of Hastings, was acquitted and the case remains unsolved. Moore, No2 on the case, said: “It was a massively highprofile and emotive investigation. I learned a lot about myself as a leader and as a senior detective.”
She got 18 years in 1993 for hiring a gunman to shoot her husband Terry through the heart on their doorstep in Northiam, East Sussex. Mr Moore said: “Terry had unusual sexual tendencies and Jean appeared to be growing tired of these and of Terry more generally. This provided a perfect recipe for murder.”
She got life in 2003 for the 1994 poison murder of partner Julian Webb on his 31st birthday. She was rumbled after an incident with her second husband.
Mr Moore ran a cold case review and said: “It involved the body having to be exhumed – necessary as Webb was poisoned over a period of time.” ■■Kevin’s book, My Way, is published by Saron Publishers and is out now.