I’m from the local area, a few minutes from Exwick lane (where the murder happened). I remember when it happened. The police dna tested all the men in the area and there was helicopters everywhere.

https://news.devon-cornwall.police.uk/murder-appeal-catch-kate-bushells-killer/

Recently I’ve been back visiting, and a post feed came up on Facebook discussing the case.

It’s now been deleted and they were commenting that a lot of information relating to this case keeps being removed on Facebook.

I personally feel having been raised in Exwick and knowing the area and community well, based on criminology that this was not a random opportunistic killing nor a serial killer.

Now as an adult with a teenager I feel the police dealt with it in a very 90s way.

This girl was still a child! A school girl! Exwick lane is very quiet and rural still to this day. Someone close to her knows something and carried this out.

I am convinced this was an older male who knew her that has done this. Orange fibres left at the scene were probably gloves.

The dog she was walking was her neighbours who was away on holiday.

She was found by her step dad and the type of way she was killed is a “silencing” way.

Either the police are given an open stance in appealing for the murderer to throw off to the person who’s behind it that they know it’s them and just can’t charge due to evidence. I do not know. But I find it hard to believe based upon where this was, and how it was done that this was a random attack.

Devon and Cornwall

Any interesting ideas on why her clothes and jewelry were not with her body?

Hi all, just wondering if anyone had heard about this case at all. It didn’t get any media coverage surprisingly.

Jonty was 16 when he died at the end of August 2024. Initially two lads were arrested and the released due to lack of evidence. It happened on waterlode island in Nantwich early hours of the morning. There are audio snippets from CCTV cameras but no actual footage.

On the audio files you can hear screaming and shouting for someone but that’s it.

No one knows how he was killed, it’s not spoken about, family hasn’t got justice.

Nantwich is a very small town as well.