The father of one of the Babes in the Wood murder victims was accused of involvement in the killings in what the prosecutor called a 'smokescreen'.
Barrie Fellows, who played cricket with Russell Bishop, attended the trial of his daughter's killer, only to be cross-examined himself.
Mr Fellows denied any involvement and had to leave the court after weeping in the witness box as he was accused of killing the girls.
Bishop's barrister Joel Bennathan QC had told jurors 'that the police and prosecution have spent 32 years building a case against the wrong man'.
Barrie Fellows (pictured, left at the Old Bailey last month and, right, at the time of the murders in 1986) broke down and had to leave court after he was accused of killing his own daughter
Bishop's former girlfriend Marion Stevenson told jurors how she visited the Fellows' home with Bishop before the killings to see another man, their friend Dougie Judd who lodged there.
When she crossed the living room on her way to the kitchen for a glass of water, she claimed to have seen Mr Fellows watching a video of his own daughter having sex with Mr Judd. Mr Fellows denied this ever happened when he gave evidence.
Russell Bishop (pictured in recent years in jail) has been found guilty of the Babes in the Woods murders at the Old Bailey
Prosecutor Brian Altman QC slammed the defence case, saying: 'What you have seen unfolding before your eyes is the creation by the defendant of a smokescreen in the hope, quite literally, that he gets away with murder for the second time.'
He said the 'common theme throughout was an effort to smear Barrie Fellows', perhaps to bolster his ultimately unsuccessful claim for compensation years later.
Mr Altman accused the defence team of 'scraping the Barrie barrel' and dragging Mr fellows' name through the mud in a 'desperate' attempt at sidestepping the mountain of scientific evidence against him.
Mr Fellows was questioned by police following his daughter's death.
He told officers that instead of joining his wife, Susan, and Michelle Hadaway in the search for their daughters he had eaten his dinner at home. Officers found this explanation unconvincing.
Brighton schoolgirls Karen Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows (right), who were killed in 1986
After he was taken in for questioning, police did nothing to assuage residents suspicions and a hate campaign erupted on the Moulsecoomb estate.
Graffiti was daubed on a nearby house which said: 'Fellows out.'
At the first trial Ivan Lawrence QC - who was also a Conservative MP - sought to place doubt in the mind of the jury over Mr Fellows' innocence.
Mr Lawrence said Mr Fellows' alibi that he was at home having his dinner while his wife searched for their daughter was weak.
Mr Fellows responded by storming out of the public gallery saying: 'I've had enough of that.'
The girls were found dead in this 'den' in undergrowth in Wild Park in Brighton (pictured in an undated handout photo from Sussex Police) after the going missing the previous night
Mr Lawrence told the judge: 'I don't suggest for a moment that Barrie Fellows was the murderer and I'm sorry he left before he heard me say this. He can't be the murderer because of the times.'
But Mr Lawrence went on to say there was enough suspicious evidence surrounding Mr Fellows as there was concerning Bishop.
In 2009 - now divorced from wife Susan and remarried - he was arrested at his home in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire over an alleged plot to rape Nicola before her death.
Weeks later it was discovered the allegation had been made 20 years earlier by Bishop's former girlfriend, Marion Stevenson, and found to be completely baseless.
The 2009 claim was just a repetition of the earlier allegation and was again investigated and the case dropped but Fellows saw it as clear illustration of the police's lack of joined up thinking on the case and an example of his continued harassment by the police.
How Russell Bishop's defence was 'strikingly similar' to fellow lifer Levi Bellfield
Levi Bellfield, a fellow HMP Frankland lifer
Russell Bishop deployed a 'cowardly' defence seemingly straight from the playbook of Milly Dowler killer Levi Bellfield.
The 52-year-old cast suspicion on the father of one of his victims as a smokescreen for the overwhelming forensic evidence against him.
Seven years before, Bellfield, a fellow HMP Frankland lifer, had used a similar ploy, heaping further distress on 13-year-old Milly's family.
After Milly's father was grilled in cross-examination, Brian Altman QC, who coincidentally prosecuted both men, was moved to tell jurors: 'The grieving parents are not on trial here.'
In his defence, Bishop pointed the finger at his nine-year-old victim Nicola Fellows's father Barrie, a man who campaigned to keep the investigation going.
It was claimed Mr Fellows was violent towards his daughter, threatening to chop her hands off for stealing.
Bishop's vulnerable ex-girlfriend was brought to court to stand by unsubstantiated claims she had made in a News of the World interview in 1987.
In her evidence, Marion Stevenson, 48, told jurors she had seen Mr Fellows watching a video of Nicola having sex with the lodger Dougie Judd a couple of months before her death. Both men denied it.
Under cross-examination, Ms Stevenson sobbed: 'I lied, OK? I didn't lie. I will tell you I lied because that's what you want.'
In earlier legal argument in the absence of the jury, the prosecution opposed the move to allow her evidence, arguing it was not credible.
The court heard of 12 reasons why police had rejected her claims, not least the fact Nicola was a virgin when she died.
Ms Stevenson never mentioned the story to Bishop, lawyers or police after the girls were murdered and claimed to have been the only person who saw the video.
She told investigators she did 'not know what I was saying' in her interview after the News of the World plied her with champagne at a hotel.
Mr Justice Sweeney allowed her evidence, while issuing a warning to defence barrister Joel Bennathan QC.
The senior judge reminded him that to suggest Mr Fellows was 'guilty of the gravest crime in the calendar', he must 'back it up with evidence'.
Nigel Pilkington, of the Crown Prosecution Service South East, said there were 'striking similarities' with what Bishop and Bellfield said in court.
He said: 'It is the last refuge of these appalling criminals where they have nowhere to go.
'Because of their cowardly nature they will cast around for essentially creating the most havoc they can.
'That is what Russell Bishop has done. There is not a shred of evidence against Barrie Fellows, not realistically at all.'
Mr Pilkington said Bishop was intent on causing 'more misery and tragedy for the family'.
He said: 'I have seen this before and it will happen again.'
Detective Superintendent Jeff Riley, of Sussex Police, added: 'I think it's desperate measures by a desperate man.
'When you see the impact on the families, and Barrie in particular, I think it is a particularly cruel way to run a defence but that's the defendant.
'I have got a very positive relationship with Barrie. Clearly he feels these allegations have hung over his head. I think it has always been there.'
In a final act of disrespect for the families of their victims, both Bellfield and Bishop refused to attend the end of their trials.
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Barrie Fellows, who played cricket with Russell Bishop, attended the trial of his daughter’s killer, only to be cross-examined...
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