BARRIE FELLOWS — A Grieving Father Falsely Accused

 

April 7, 2009: Barrie Fellows is arrested at his home in Great Sutton, Cheshire. At the same time, Brighton man Douglas Judd is arrested.

Some false rape allegations are worse than others, but this one is as sick as they come. It appears to be a repetition of one made in 1987; it remains to be seen if it concerns an actual (phantom) rape or merely a conspiracy to commit one, but regardless, it deserves to be included here.

The nearly 10 year old Nicola Fellows and 9 year old Karen Hadaway were murdered in a Brighton Park; their bodies were found October 10, 1986. This became known as the babes in the wood murder case – not the first time this phrase has been used. Local man Russell Bishop stood trial and was sensationally acquitted, but in 1990, he snatched a 7 year old girl off the street, sexually assaulted her, and left her for dead. He was given a life sentence later that year, and the double murder investigation was re-opened, although neither Bishop nor anyone else has been charged.

Barrie Fellows was the father of Nicola; the two arrests in April 2009 were on suspicion of conspiracy to rape his daughter. According to Mr Fellows, a false allegation was made in 1987 by an ex-girlfriend of Bishop, which caused “massive distress” to him and his family. He added:

“I am absolutely devastated that the police have chosen to re-visit this false claim and arrest myself and another man. I will be seeking legal advice regarding false imprisonment and wrongful arrest. Not a day goes by when Nicola is not on my mind and in my family’s thoughts.”

Needless to say, nothing came of it, but some women have truly sick minds.

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The above was published October 15, 2017. Since then, the full story of these sickening false allegations against a grieving father has come out, and yet again it shows a woman – two women in this case – vying for depravity with one of the most despicable men who ever walked the Earth.

The following was added July 20, 2019.

At the time of his acquittal, double jeopardy was in force in the UK, which meant Russell Bishop could not be retried for the murders. That law was abolished in 2005 on the back of the hysterical campaign that followed the April 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence. Abolishing double jeopardy was a very bad and sinister development, although to date it has affected only a handful of cases, and before there can be a retrial, leave must be obtained from the Court Of Appeal.

That being said, the waiving of double jeopardy was more than justified in this case if it meant ensuring that a monster like Bishop would never see daylight again.

The authorities built a case against him in secret following advances in DNA science. This went on for a decade, and it was not until February 2, 2018 that the retrial was announced. It was held at the Central Criminal Court.

Bishop was convicted on December 10, 2018, and was sentenced the following day. The full, disgusting truth of the false rape allegation against Barrie Fellows can be found in this article and this one.

The first is from the now defunct News Of The World, December 13, 1987, published in the wake of Bishop’s acquittal. The second is a masterful, in-depth post-second trial analysis by Adam Lusher.

[A note here about the first file. I have not compressed this due to loss of quality, so it won’t load as quickly as most PDF files on this timeline. Also, you may have to download and resize using your PDF viewer to read it properly].

The bottom line is that the false allegation of rape was made by Bishop’s former girfriend Marion Stevenson. She was, she claims, put up to it by Bishop’s mother. That much is believable. The claim that she was ordered by the police to sleep with Bishop in order to obtain a bedroom confession, is not. The nanogramme of truth in the claim that Barrie Fellows sexually abused his own daughter and made her appear in a child porn video appears to be that he liked watching (adult) porn. Thirty years and more on when porn is a couple of mouse clicks away for all of us, this sounds remarkably tame.

The other allegations made against Nicola herself are beneath contempt, and it is astounding that any newspaper would have published them.

Perhaps even more incredible than the machinations of Marion Stephenson and Sylvia Bishop is the fact that while he was on remand for the murders, Bishop corresponded with a 13 year old girl, who appears to have been enamoured with him. This was raised at the retrial – see the Lusher article for details.

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Final update: Russell Bishop died January 20, 2022. In May 2021, Jennifer Johnson was given a six year sentence for perjury at the first murder trial. She was a former lover of Bishop.

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