Seamus Colemole
Previously deathbyropeandglass
This other man was stitched up by an undercover female officer, who promised him sexual favours to get him to confess privately to her that he had killed women. He ends up in prison for 18 months, wrongly - meanwhile the killer continues his psychotic sadistic spree of rape, murder and mutilation.
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Thats not exactly right.
He wasn't "stitched up" and he never confessed, and that was not the point of the undercover work at all.
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Criminal psychologist Paul Britton was asked for advice by the police in regards to the Rachel Nickell case and their suspect at the time Colin Stagg.
Britton wrote a profile of the killer based on imformation given to him on the case and concluded that the killer would be one of a small minority (less than 1% i believe) who possessed a certain violent sexual fantasy involving knifes.
So they wanted to be able to find out if stagg fell into that small minority, doing so would of strengthened their case against him although would not of been evidence that he had committed the crime.
During communications with "Lizzie James" Stagg never confessed to killing Rachel Nickell. But he did introduce the use of a knife during sex into play and that he possessed those same violent fantasies that they thought the killer would of had which Britton believed meant he fitted the profile.
Seemingly oblivious to the fact that men say things to impress women in the hope of getting sex. It wasn't a case of her offering him normal sex then him saying he preferred violent sex using a knife.
He was most definatly guided in the right direction which is where the undercover operation went wrong in my opinion.
Although as it turns out its a bloody good job it did go wrong and was ruled inadmissible because we would have an innocent man in prison and probably still to this day a murderer on the lose.
At least now Stagg is free and Napper has been caught but this should of been advoided and even before hindsight that seems obvious from what we now know.