‘Who killed Billie-Jo?’
Billie-Jo Jenkins, whose murder almost 30 years ago shocked the nation and has carried on making headlines to this dayNaomi Channell stared at the image on the screen and shuddered. In the foreground of the gruesome photograph lay the lifeless body of a girl, sprawled on the patio of a family house, blood pooling around her.
On the day Billie-Jo was killed, Esther and Maya were out with Lois shopping. Billie-Jo was earning pocket money painting the patio doors. According to court documents, Siôn, accompanied by Annie, collected Lottie and a friend from a music lesson, before returning home. He claimed he did not see Billie-Jo, but heard Annie speaking with her and recalled Annie saying goodbye to her. All three then left the house again to buy some white spirit from a local hardware store.
Lois’ allegations were ruled as inadmissible at trial, and while the prosecution put forward a number of theories as to why Siôn had killed Billie-Jo – including that he’d been abusing her, or that they’d argued over the messy painting of the patio doors and he’d lost his temper, Siôn maintained his innocence. He argued that the blood spray found on his clothes and shoes was caused when he tried to help Billie-Jo as she lay dying, until he was found guilty in July 1998.
It was claimed that he killed Billie-Jo in the three-minute window between returning to the house with his daughters and going with them to the DIY store, taking the unusual route to buy himself time to think and come up with a plan.
Neither jury was able to reach a verdict, so in February 2006 Siôn was acquitted. Speaking outside court, he said he’d faced a “terrible ordeal”, adding: “Billie-Jo’s murderer has escaped detection because of dreadful errors in the police investigation and their single-minded, desperate determination to convict me at all costs. The police… have been wilfully blind and incompetent.”
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