BRISTOL AND SOMERSET HERALD

Friday, 23 March 2012

TILBY MURDER VICTIMS RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE DEATHS

by Jessica Fox

Police are looking into the possibility that Clive and Deirdre Wilson, who were murdered in their own home earlier this month, are responsible for the deaths of two young women.

The body found in the basement of their Bristol property has been identified as missing teen Stacey King, who disappeared from her home in 1991 when she was seventeen.

Stacey, from Clevedon, lived with foster-parents at the time of her disappearance and was described as ‘troubled and vulnerable’.

A forensic pathologist who conducted an autopsy on Stacey stated that the cause of death was a heroin overdose and he believes she died around 1993. She was found buried beneath a false wall in the basement.

Police are now reopening the case of teenager Marianne Walker-Smith, who was found dead on Clapham Common in London last year of a suspected heroin overdose, as they look into claims made by witnesses who saw her with Clive Wilson before she disappeared.

Clive, along with his mother, Deirdre, was shot dead in Deirdre’s Tilby home earlier this month. As yet, the police haven’t charged anybody with their murders.

Clive’s brother, Norman Wilson, has been questioned by police as to his involvement in the kidnapping of Flora Powell and the murders of both Stacey King and Marianne Walker-Smith.

The police have only ‘scraped the surface’ of what they believe is a drug and kidnapping ring in Bristol, with connections in Reading and London.

Norman’s daughter, Lisa, said: ‘There is no way my dad is involved. We didn’t see much of my uncle or my grandmother over the last ten years and we never visited their Bristol home. I’m not saying my dad was always a saint, and he spoke openly of his battle with drugs when he was younger. But he has been clean for years. I believe him when he says he knew nothing about it.’

Dylan Bird, who was Flora Powell’s boyfriend at the time of her disappearance, has also been released without charge.

He told the Herald, ‘Norman Wilson supplied me and my mates with drugs in the early 1990s but we lost touch after that. I cleaned up my act and I’d heard that Norman moved away and settled down with a wife and kids. I don’t believe Norman had any involvement in the abduction of young girls. Unfortunately his brother and his mum used Norman and myself as bait to lure my beautiful girlfriend into their trap. I’ll never understand how Deirdre Wilson could have stood by and allowed it to happen.’

A police spokeswoman confirmed that a man has been arrested and released without charge.

I don’t hear from Margot until the next day.

I’m halfway home when she calls.

She’s crying and her voice is thick through her tears. My stomach tightens. ‘Margot? Are you okay? Is it Flora?’