Regarding the Maidstone murder attributed to Stone in the wiki article. That was 30 mins walk from my house at the time. Not that I would have known about it, I was only about 7 at the time.
30 mins walk, there is about as much evidence that you did it, Roch, as there is Stone.
The articles linked to that make this claim offer zero evidence to support it. The claim is akin to the sort of claims made by CAL et al. regarding Bamber.
It is said that he told a psychiatrist he had killed the police officer, Francis Jegou. She then reported this to the police. It seems from reading the links in the wiki article that this claim has undergone a transformation of "Chinese Whispers" each time it is reported.
First of all in the Independent on 23 October 1998;
FOR YEARS, Michael Stone had fantasised about killing. By the summer of 1996, fuelled by mental instability and chronic drug addiction, this petty thief was ready to make it reality.
But before he acted he had begged for help. He begged his psychiatric nurse, Margaret Stewart, to get him treatment. Five days before the Russell murders, she told police he had told her he was going to kill. Entry after entry in his medical notes included murderous threats, fantasies of torture, and names of those who had done him wrong. Later in the same article, the following;
He may even have killed before. When he was arrested for the Russell murders he was questioned over the death of a former special constable, Francis Jegou, who died in a knife attack in Maidstone in September 1976, when Stone was 16. I would assume that this is the psychiatrist who called the Crimewatch programme naming Stone as a possible suspect. It is noticeable that Stone was first questioned about the murder of Francis Jegou in 1996 when he was arrested for the Chillenden murders. 20 years later, whilst framing him for the Chillenden killings. Zero evidence or credibility to the accusation. There is no mention in the article of him confessing the murder to his psychiatrist. This claim appears later and appears to be invented by conflating facts and assertions from earlier articles.
I take back my claim of hearsay made earlier. Hearsay is a way higher bar than this recycled Chinese Whisper of baseless accusations.
To those who make the claim that Stone was suspected of the murder of Francis Jegou.
"Suspected" is doing some serious heavy lifting in that sentence.
The issue is not whether Stone is or isn't dangerous. If he is then he should be convicted of things he has done not somebody else's crimes.
If the wrong person was convicted and Bellfield is guilty, then the issue is the huge and destructive killing and violence spree that could have been prevented but wasn't.
Defending or justifying Stone's conviction on the grounds of his poor character is the most perverse example of "Noble Cause Corruption" i have encountered.
Usually the "justification" for NCC is that it is "known" that the suspect did the crime in question but incriminating evidence is elusive.
In this case, it seems that NCC stretches to include knowing that the suspect didn't do the crime but because he is a "wrong un" it's ok. This despite the crimes in question being the most heinous and the consequences of convicting the wrong person for crimes of this magnitude being too obvious to spell out. Levi Bellfield's crimes post Chillenden do spell out the consequences in graphic detail.
Discussing allegations about Stone is letting Kent Police off the hook.