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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne

BBC was warned of author’s claim to possess missing clothes of child murder victim

Berry-Dee, an older man with white hair and beard, clasps his hands
Christopher Berry-Dee has twice been arrested, and once charged, for alleged child sexual abuse, but was never convicted. Photograph: Ian Tuttle/Shutterstock

The BBC was warned by two whistleblowers that a British true crime author was claiming to have obtained the missing clothes of a child murder victim that the broadcaster had lost.

The Guardian has established that the office of the former head of the BBC and the corporation’s whistleblowing unit were both informed that Christopher Berry-Dee, the UK’s most successful true crime author, had told people he had obtained the clothes of Karen Hadaway, who was murdered in 1986.

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