BBC reaches settlement with mother of murdered Brighton schoolgirl

Karen Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows were sexually assaulted and strangled in 1986 in what became known as the Babes in the Wood murders. Composite: PA

The BBC has reached a settlement and further apologised to the mother of the murdered schoolgirl Karen Hadaway, who claimed that Martin Bashir took her daughter’s clothes and never returned them.

Karen and her friend Nicola Fellows were sexually assaulted and strangled in Brighton in 1986 at the age of nine in what became known as the Babes in the Wood murders.