Lin and Megan Russell were savagely killed in Chillenden, Kent, in 1996. Michael Stone was later arrested, charged and convicted of their killings. He has always maintained his innocence, with the lack of forensic and other evidence connecting him to the scene, combined with other factors, convincing many criminologists that the conviction was unsafe, putting it mildly. Now Levi Bellfield, the notorious mass murderer serving two whole-life tariff life sentences, has admitted to the Russell murders, providing extremely detailed information including much never made publically available. If the death penalty had been in place, then Michael Stone would be long dead, an innocent man hanged.