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And some Crimewatch calls.

Yes.

So this time Colin was a lot less amiable and no commented his way through everything for hours.

It's like they think they're making a 90s thriller.

Literally.

So while Colin Stagg was inside, police dug up Colin's garden, and the papers were filled with images of items being pulled from the ground and taken away in bin liners.

Nothing ever came of those items.

We don't even know what they were.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's just to be like, look, we better be seen to be doing something.

Just like dig up a bunch of shit, put some bricks in some bags and carry it out of his front door.

But it was all pointless anyway, because the real murderer of Rachel Nickell was still very much out there.

And by August 1993, he was preparing to strike again.

but no one was looking for him.

No other leads were followed on the Rachel Nickell case, because as far as the Met were concerned, they had their man.

So when an unidentified knife showed up on Wimbledon Common, it was squirrelled away in an evidence locker and forgotten about.

When Colin Stagg got his day at the Old Bailey, the Met were on trial just as much as he was.

Colin's defence counsel made the very logical case that all he had done was give Lizzie James what he thought she wanted.

He wanted to satisfy her.

He had never actually had a sexual relationship before.