BABES in the Wood killer Russell Bishop spent nearly £160,000 of taxpayers’ cash trying to dodge justice.was handed £83,513 in legal aid for a QC to defend him and £75,073 for his solicitors.Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows were killed in Brighton in 1986
But documents also show his lawyers were handed thousands of pounds for claims over his treatment in jail.Another prison case resulted in £7,223 legal aid being awarded. Bishop’s victims Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows, both nine, were strangled and molested in woods in Brighton in 1986.MOST READ IN NEWSTRIPLE DEATH SMASHDrunk women 'performing graphic sex acts on each other' will face no chargesMOUNTAIN SMASHFury as Labour's David Lammy compares Brexiteers to Nazis in bizarre rant
His total £172,041 legal aid bill, which also covered two judicial reviews, was revealed through a Freedom of Information request to the Legal Aid Agency. It said: “Anyone facing a crown court trial is eligible for legal aid subject to a strict means test.”Nicola and Karen, both nine, go missing from their homes in Moulsecoomb, Brighton, East Sussex.Bishop is cleared of their murders at Lewes crown court, East Sussex.Bishop is convicted of a seven-year-old’s attempted murder, kidnapping and indecent assault.He goes on trial again for murders of Nicola and Karen after Court of Appeal gave CPS authority to quash acquittals.