Kent Murders (Sutton True Crime History)

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Stone was proven to be in Medway four hours before the crime took place (he signed a timed receipt in a branch of Cash Convertors) and he did not closely resemble the photofit circulated by Kent Police, as described by a witness who saw a man exit the lane the murders took place in a car. Constance Kent was unusually strong — and “she appears to possess a very strong mind,” Whicher said. She also slept alone and had hidden things in the outhouse in the past. The re-trial was conducted in Nottingham in 2001. However, Stone’s reputation had spread nationwide by then following the massive coverage following his first conviction. The headless body of a teenager was discovered more than 10 years ago but no one has ever been charged with his murder.

Bellfield wanted to get it off his chest, but Bellfield said we couldn’t tell anyone. That it was just between ‘you, me and CCRC’. Within hours it was leaked to The Sun newspaper. As a result of it being leaked, Bellfield goes up the wall. He writes to Kent Police saying ‘it’s all a load of lies – I’m withdrawing it’ The Russell Murders: Who Killed Lin and Megan? is a well-crafted three-part series showing on Sky Documentaries – an in-depth look at the case and once again poses the question...did Stone actually do it? But does it shed any new light on the case all these years later? Does it provide anything other than conjecture on the case? And at the heart of all of them is a simple question – did the man convicted of the crime actually do it? When I came out of the appeals court the media were there,” says Stone, “and they shouted out ‘Michael’. I shouted out, right at the top of my voice ‘I’m an innocent man’ to reach the media. And if you look at my face [in still photographs] it looks like I’m going psychopathic or something – but I’m actually shouting ‘I’m an innocent man’. Formal identification has not yet taken place, however, the family of a 54-year-old woman reported missing from Upstreet on Wednesday 23 August are aware. The death is being treated as suspicious and on 24 August a man in his 20s from Margate was arrested on suspicion of murder.”A full DNA profile, which police believe belongs to the killer, was created from crime scene evidence in 2008 but "a missing piece of the jigsaw has yet to be traced". Daly – whose own charges were “mysteriously” dropped after assisting with the case – is currently serving a life sentence for his role in the – unrelated - murder of a drug dealer in Folkestone in 2014. The Kent Police image of the man wanted in connection to the Chillenden murders

His dad Ambrose, 61, has also insisted that he will never stop hunting for his son’s killer(s) but admits the “only thing he has is hope”.

Constance Kent Fascinated The Press — And Even Charles Dickens

Constance Kent went down in history as a cold, calculating teen killer. But the truth of what happened in Hill House Road the night Francis Kent died may remain a mystery.

But once the details are established, it is unease in the police case – which would form the basis of Stone’s conviction – which dominate the storytelling in this documentary. It is, for the most part, a well-trodden path. Chillenden was a peaceful, idyllic hamlet before the crime shattered the peace A 17-year-old boy from Coulsdon, south London, a 15-year-old girl and two 16-year-old boys, all from Tonbridge, were arrested on Sunday morning on suspicion of murder, Kent police said. It was known as the Great Crime of 1860. On June 29, 1860, an unknown assailant murdered 3-year-old Francis Savile Kent in a brutal fashion. That trip to his local shop in Gillingham was the last time he tasted freedom. Barbara Stone –sister of Michael –has long campaigned for his release It does not appear to us that the Road-hill murder has become any the less mysterious even now that Constance Kent has confessed and has come under the penalty of the law,” penned Harper’s Weekly.He concludes: “Josie and Shaun Russell blame me for that crime. It really tears me apart thinking they think I did that. That’s the worst part of it. I want them to know I didn’t do that.” Dr Shaun Russell and his surviving daughter Josie moved out of Kent after the murder As his defence barrister during the case, KC William Clegg, tells the documentary: “I felt the verdict was against the weight of the evidence.” But despite repeated efforts to overturn his conviction, it is only in the last few years any real opportunity for any case to be presented to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has emerged. Hulton Archive/Getty Images Detectives initially did not suspect Constance Kent of killing her brother — attention focused on the nanny and the boy’s father.