How we got to the killer in 2 weeks

IT took two Sunday People investigators less than a fortnight to prove Russell Bishop was the Babes killer.

Bit it took 32 years for the authorities finally to nail him.

We publicly accused Bishop of the monstrous murders and dared him to sue us – he didn’t.

Our reporters linked him beyond doubt to the key piece of evidence in the case – a blue sweatshirt with distinctive white Pinto logo discarded near the bodies.

Covered in the girls’ DNA and fibres from the murder site, this had undoubtedly belonged to their killer.

But despite several leads, prosecutors never called a single witness to identify it positively as Bishop’s at his 1987 trial. He was acquitted.

Three years later he was convicted of abducting, raping, and attempting to murder a seven-year-old girl.

After his life sentence we sent our team – Ted Hynds and Ray Levine – to Brighton.

Ted said: “We started knocking on doors around the Moulescombe Estate where the little girls had lived.

“It didn’t take us long to find people who said they saw Bishop wearing it.”

Ray tracked down the father of Bishops’s girlfriend Jenny

Johnson, who admitted he bought it for the killer.

Ray added:

“It was the sweetest scoop and brought comfort to the two families.”