Strange Stories UK, Babes in the Brighton wood murder

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October 1986 two nine year old girls are found murdered in a wooded park in Brighton, UK. There is a suspect who is charged but found not guilty. People in Brighton are still suspicious that the person acquitted was the murderer. There is a law change which allows the suspect who is serving a long sentence for a sexual offence against a seven year old, is to be tried again. The trial is known as the 'Babes in the wood' murders. A case that will always be remembered in Brighton.