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16,156. Dr Lin Russell and her two daughters Josie and Megan were victims of a vicious hammer attack in 1996. Three people left for dead in the picturesque countryside of Kent. The brutality of the crime left a community reeling and the senseless murders stunned the nation. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) Crimes that Shook Britain: Lin & Megan Russell
16,157. Lin, Megan and Josie Russell were violently attacked by a stranger while walking home from school. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
16,158. Eventually, a local psychiatric patient Michael Stone was arrested and charged with murder. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
16,159. Sean Russell’s world has fallen apart ... He sits in the hospital clinging to the hope his eldest daughter will regain consciousness. His wife and youngest daughter have been killed in an unprovoked attack. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
16,160. What was the motive? (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
16,161. Stone is found guilty. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
82,241. The killer evaded justice for a year. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) Britain's Worst Crimes: Lin & Megan & Josie Russell
82,242. They must find a way of communicating with Josie; her evidence is now the crux of their investigation. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
82,243. Michael Stone, the man accused of bludgeoning mother-and- daughter Lin and Megan Russell to death in a frenzied hammer attack, admitted his horrific crimes to another prisoner shortly after he was remanded in custody, a court heard today.
Stone, 41, from Gillingham, Kent, is also charged with battering Megan’s sister, Josie Russell, to within an inch of her life in a remote country lane near Chillenden, in Kent, on July 9, 1996.
He denies two counts of murder and one of attempted murder.
On the first day of evidence at the second trial for the Russell hammer murders, the jury at Nottingham Crown Court heard that Lin and her two daughters were walking back from their school when they were subjected to an attack of unimaginable violence.
The court heard that a man approached the family in Cherry Garden Lane brandishing a hammer and demanding money.
Lin, 45, had left her purse at home but said she would go back to her house to get cash.
The attacker refused to let her go and Lin shouted to Josie, nine, to run away.
The man grabbed hold of her and hit her over the head with the hammer before forcing all three of them off the lane and into a small copse.
There, he bound and gagged Lin and Josie and tied up Megan, six, before bludgeoning them all with his hammer. Megan’s swimming costume was found a few yards away. The family’s dog, Lucy, was also found dead. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) Mail online article ‘Stone boasted about murders’
107,134. ‘Their bodies were found huddled together on this isolated track just half a mile from their home in Gillingham.’ … ‘The family were beaten with a blunt metal instrument like a hammer.’ (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) The Chillenden Murders I, BBC 2017, news reports
107,135. In the summer of 1996 a young family were attacked down a quiet country lane in Kent. The hunt for the killer became one of the biggest stories of the decade. A year later Michael Stone was arrested. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to Life imprisonment. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
107,136. Doubts continue to be raised about Michael Stone’s guilt. And for the last twenty years Stone himself has stuck to the same story. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
107,138. ‘He had a previous conviction for a hammer attack for which he got a two-year sentence.’ (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid. investigator
107,139. ‘You’d expect him to leave his DNA on the items … It’s 1996.’ (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
107,140. ‘One of the three alleged self-confessions they used in the first trial – Thompson subsequently admitted it was all false.’ (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
107,141. ‘The second prisoner … Jennings … had been paid £5,000 via his sister by The Sun with another promise of £10,000 to come.’ (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
107,142. Stone’s conviction was overturned and a new trial was ordered. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
107,336. In 1996 the murders of Lin and Megan Russell and attempted murder of Josie Russell on a quiet country lane in Kent horrified the nation. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) The Chillenden Murders II
107,337. Doubts being raised about Stone’s guilt. And Stone himself has stuck to the same story. But is he a liar and a killer or could the wrong man be in prison? (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
107,338. But Jo-Ann Goodwin’s article questioning Sheree Batt’s evidence and Michael Stone’s guilt was published. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
107,339. It’s star witness – a former prisoner called Damien Daley … ‘I said, You’re fitting Stone up, and he said, Yes.’ (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
107,340. Every area where they’ve got a positive [DNA], it’s not him [Stone]. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
107,341. One name keeps cropping up – Levi Bellfield … he used a hammer as a weapon. (Murder & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.