After his murder of Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, Russell Bishop’s perverted lust for little girls claimed a third victim.

Just four years after being acquitted of snatching and killing the two nine-year olds in Brighton’s Wild Park, in October 1986, he bundled another girl into the boot of his car, intending to subject her to the same fate.

Although she survived the kidnapping The Telegraph can reveal it has left the woman, now aged 35, suffering periodic flashbacks and severe stress, leaving her frequently unable to go to the shops or enjoy simple pleasures like a walk on her own.

As a seven-year-old she was abducted from close to her home on February 4, 1990, and was later, by some miracle, spotted wondering close to a Brighton beauty spot, having been subjected to a serious sexual assault.

The girl was seen walking naked along a road by a couple who had driven to Devil's Dyke on the Sussex Downs, behind Hove.