Sussex Murders

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He revealed his plan to disperse her remains by throwing parts of her body out of train windows - something he had already done with her legs. a b "Man arrested over 1986 'babes in the wood' murders in Brighton". The Guardian. 10 May 2016 . Retrieved 10 May 2016. a b "Babes in the Wood perjury trial – what the judge said when he passed sentence". Brighton & Hove News. 19 May 2021 . Retrieved 27 November 2021. Since May 15, 1980, the day she disappeared, Jessie's parents have kept scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings about her.

He even identified the exact hat Field had been wearing on the day of the murder, despite the teen wearing a different one in the coffee stall.

The victims were Irene Munro and Emily Kaye, and the three men responsible were hanged, after both cases were solved with help of brave witnesses and determined detectives. They became known collectively as the "Crumbles murders".

After a five day trial, and two and a half hours of deliberation, a jury found Toni Mancini not guilty of the murder or Violette Kaye. Due, primarily, to attitudes towards sex workers at the time, and witnesses that testified that Mancini and Kaye's relationship seemed content. A gold ring was removed from her finger and the cowardly men buried her four foot deep but left one of her feet exposed above the ground. A salesman who stopped for a rest discovered Mr Thurgood slumped by the side of a car with gunshot wounds to his head and chest.Pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury and his assistant with police officers making an examination in the garden of the bungalow Murders of John Greenwood and Gary Miller – UK unsolved 1980 case which led to calls in 2020 for further 'double jeopardy' reform