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This is the second of a 2-part write-up on the murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins, a 13 year old girl who was bludgeoned to death outside her home in Hastings, England.
Part 2
The Case Against Sion
The prosecution contended that Sion Jenkins murdered his foster daughter in the time period between arriving home from collecting Lottie from her clarinet lesson, and leaving to go to the DIY store. His daughters Annie and Lottie were outside the front of the house when he did this, and he had approximately 3 minutes alone to commit the crime.
The Timing
Lottie and Annie were both interviewed the day after the murder. They each said that they went into the house on their return from the clarinet lesson (however, A states that L went into the house as well, while L doesn’t mention A going into the house.) They also both said that their father went into the house. Crucially, Annie stated that she saw Billie-Jo painting the patio and that Billie-Jo said “Goodbye” to her. Lottie said she didn’t see or hear Billie-Jo. Both say that they were then waiting outside the front of the house for their dad for a matter of minutes. Annie’s later statements to the police, and to the police via both her mother and a neighbour separately, differ and are contradictory. She reports variously that she and Lottie were outside the house for seconds (not minutes), that her dad followed her immediately out of the house and that she never went in the house at all. Lottie never waivered from her initial statement. Lottie also added that she noticed that the side gate was open when they returned from the DIY store, but it hadn’t been open earlier in the day.
Sion’s initial statement was that he did not go in the house at all, but waited outside with Annie while Lottie went in to drop off her clarinet. He later admitted that he did go into the house, but said that he didn’t see Billie-Jo. It’s speculated that he initially lied about not going in the house to distance himself from the crime, but changed his story because his statement differed from both of his daughters’. If he was innocent, why not just tell the truth in the first place? He would have been corroborated.
Sion said, both in his first 999 call and later in a statement to the police, that he had been away from the home for
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Billie-Jo Jenkins was a thirteen year old girl who was murdered in the back garden of the home she shared with her foster family, in a small town in the south east of England. After a troubled start in life, Billie-Jo appeared to find happiness and stability with a loving family, but her life ended in a vicious attack in a place where she should have been safe. The murder was one of the most high profile in the UK, sending the press into a frenzy over the search for her killer and the trials that followed. Despite someone being found guilty of the crime at one point, the case now remains officially open and unsolved. Did the Police have it right all along? Was justice ever served in this case, or was an innocent man wrongly convicted?
Part 1
Background
Billie-Jo Margaret Jenkins was born on 29th March 1983, to Deborah (Debbie) Barnett and Bayard (Bill) Jenkins in the East End of London, UK. Debbie and Bill met on a weird double date of sorts while Bill was in Wandsworth prison. A friend of Debbie’s had a partner in the prison, and asked Debbie to accompany her to visit the partner and a friend of his, who turned out to be Bill. Bill had/was serving time for various assaults, including one on a police officer. The pair struck up a relationship, and when Bill was released from Wandsworth he moved into Debbie’s flat with her. The couple were married six weeks after the birth of their daughter, Billie-Jo.
Billie-Jo’s mother had had problems of her own. A heavy drinker with an arrest for credit card fraud, Debbie struggled to care for and house her children. When Bill was sent to prison again, Billie-Jo and her siblings were sent to live with family members. Billie-Jo was eight years old at this time, and after short stints with a grandmother and an aunt, she and her brother were placed into foster care in Ilford, Essex. That placement did not last long, and when Lois Jenkins answered a social services advert for foster parents in her local paper, it must have seemed fortuitous.
Lois Jenkins was a social worker, and her husband Sion (pronounced as you would Sean/Shaun) was a deputy headmaster. They lived in Bow, East London at the time with their four daughters, one of whom was friends with Billie-Jo from school. Both Billie-Jo and her brother were initially placed with the Jenkins, although at some point the boy moved back to his birth family, while Billie-Jo (now nine years old) stayed on a longer term basis. Th
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