Killer’s TV bid for justice backfires as show blows holes in his story
MURDERER LIE DETECTOR FURY
difficult to produce a pattern like this. It’s just not credible. It seems more likely that she (Linda) was injured and was present in the boot after she had been injured.”
The team, led by former BBC Rough Justice producer Louise Shorter, further focused on claims Linda could have been a victim of double killer Christopher Halliwell. Taxi driver Halliwell, 52, from Swindon, was convicted of strangling sex worker Becky Godden, 20, in 2003.
She was missing for eight years until her body was found buried in a Gloucestershire field.
Halliwell had also killed 22-year-old Sian O’callaghan after abducting her from a nightclub in 2011. Her body was found five days later in Oxfordvery shire. Halliwell was given a whole life sentence in 2016.
Former Wiltshire Police detective Steve Fulcher, who quit the force after failing to follow arrest guidelines by questioning Halliwell over the death of Becky without cautioning him, claimed Linda had a ‘direct relationship with the killer.
But the Inside Justice team found nothing more than supposition and rumour that Linda had anything to do with Halliwell.
Their review of the case is revealed in Conviction, Murder in Suburbia on BBC2 on Tuesday and Wednesday night this week.
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