We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. In July 1992 a young mother, Rachel Nickell, was stabbed repeatedly and killed on Wimbledon Common in London. "I just hope that he never gets out. After taking 4,500 statements, and spending 3m in the largest murder investigation in British history, theyre left with nothing. In the end nobody would do it.". 2011: Alex Hanscombe gives his first ever interview to the press. Despite having no forensic evidence linking him to the case, and interviewing 32 other men in connection with the murder, the police were convinced Stagg was Miss Nickells' killer. Next thing he knows, hes being interviewed at a police station. [15] The sample at the time was insufficient to confirm an identity, but was large enough to rule out suspects. She was with her son, Alex, who was just two years old. Details of the murder of Rachel Nickell - the 49 frantic stab wounds, one of which almost decapitated her, the sexual violation, and the tiny piece of paper placed on her forehead like a. We always began with the standard (twenty-eight-cycle at that time) test, so that we had a baseline of what our extracts contained in the way of DNA. "I know now that you were, and are, an innocent man who was mistakenly charged. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Rachel Nickell, a 23-year model from Tooting, south-west London, is stabbed 49 times in a frenzied daylight attack on Wimbledon Common. In 2002, ten years after the killing, Scotland Yard used a cold case review team, which used refined DNA techniques only recently made available. He said that five or six men had not been eliminated from inquiries and that the killer probably lived within a mile of the common. "I had been led to believe by officers of the Metropolitan Police that they considered you responsible for my partner's death. Robert Napper - The murderer - currently in Broadmoor prison for murder, Colin Stagg - Accused and then acquitted, Lizzie James (fake name) - Honey Trap policewoman. He also suffers from Aspergers Syndrome and grows up increasingly isolated, though he does manage to secure work as a warehouseman at the Ministry of Defence. She received a total of 49 stab wounds. Hollie Richardson, Plenty of classic Den scenarios this week: an extremely nervous pitcher, a business that might be too good to invest in, someone who to date has sold only two units, and an entrepreneur who forces the Dragons to pitch to them. Alexi Duggins, After seven years with Louis and no heir produced, its little surprise that Marie has taken to wandering the corridors looking sad, yet as bewigged and glamorous as ever.