The Murder of Rachel Nickell: Bill Clegg KC on the Colin Stagg Honey Trap
About this episode
The episode discusses the controversial murder investigation of Rachel Nickell and the defense of Colin Stagg by Bill Clegg KC.
In July 1992, Rachel Nickell was murdered in broad daylight on Wimbledon Common, with her two year old son nearby. The killing shocked Britain and triggered one of the most controversial murder investigations in modern British history. Helen Fospero and Martin Brunt are joined by Bill Clegg KC, the barrister who defended Colin Stagg, the innocent man police accused of Rachel's murder. With no forensic evidence or confession linking Stagg to the crime, investigators launched an extraordinary undercover "honey trap", using a female police officer to try to persuade him to confess. The confession never came. Bill reveals what went wrong inside the investigation, how he dismantled the prosecution at the Old Bailey, and what happened when the case against Stagg spectacularly collapsed. Meanwhile, Rachel Nickell's real killer was still free. Bill Clegg KC's book, Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence:https://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/titles/william-clegg/under-the-wig/9781529401240/ ......... Support the Show Listen ad free and access our full catalogue, including a True Criminals coffee mug, on Patreon at…
Topics covered
- murder investigation
- true crime
- legal defense
- undercover operations
- British history
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