Police detective Paul Dockley says he was 'devastated' when he heard that the judge ordered the jury to acquit John Duffyĭetective Dockley says his heart dropped when they found her body, because he couldn't help but think why didn't they find her earlier. In the second episode of the docu-series The Railway Killers, airing tonight on Channel 5, Detective Paul Dockley, who worked on the case, says he deeply regrets how long it took to find Anne's body. However Duffy could not be re-tried due to double jeopardy, which prevents an accused person from being tried again on the same or similar charges following an acquittal in the same jurisdiction. However, mid-proceedings, the judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to try Duffy in the case of Ms Lock, and asked the jury to acquit him of her murder.ĭuffy later admitted to being involved in the crime, after implicating accomplice David Mulcahy in 1997, who was convicted of three murders and seven rapes and handed three life sentences. This suspect was identified as John Duffy, who was eventually convicted of those murders, as well as four rapes, in 1988 and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
The fact she had been strangled and that her body was found near a train station indicated she might have been killed by the same man who murdered 19-year-old Alison Day on December 29 the previous year in Hackney Wick, and Dutch teen Maartje Tamboezer, 15, found dead in Surry in April 1986. Ms Lock, 29, a secretary at London Weekend Television, was abducted and brutally murdered by Brookmans Park railway station in Hertfordshire on May 18, 1986. Due to a miscommunication during the search, police didn't find her body until it was badly decomposed, which severely hindered the investigation as DNA evidence could not be found on her body. A detective who investigated the murder of newlywed Anne Lock admits he was devastated when their prime suspect - Railway Killer John Duffy - was acquitted due to a lack of evidence after police took nine weeks to find her body.
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