Campbell photographed own daughter

Stuart Campbell was so obsessed with schoolgirls he even persuaded his own teenage daughter to dress up in lingerie for photographs. Campbell met his first wife Jennifer when she was 15, but lost interest in her as she grew older. He met his current wife Debbie when she was also 15.

Years after splitting up with Jennifer he re-established contact with their daughter Jenny, whom he had not seen since she was a toddler.

Aged 14, she was persuaded to pose for indecent photographs on Campbell's promise of a future career in modelling - just as he did with other girls he picked up in the street and outside schools.

His daughter thinks he drugged her, just as he was to try to drug his niece. A detective said: "Jenny wasn't sure what to do. She wanted to be a model but she felt very uneasy about her dad taking pictures like that.

"Eventually she agreed to do a few shots in some lingerie and posed for a series of pictures, some of which were indecent.

"She is convinced he drugged her. When she realised what he had done she was absolutely traumatised by it all."

Jenny, now 26 and a single mother of three, hates her father and refuses to have anything to do with him.

Campbell met her mother Jennifer in 1975 as he loitered outside her school, handing out cigarettes to girls too young to be able to buy their own. They married a year later, by which time Jennifer was six months' pregnant, but less than a year after the wedding he indecentlyassaulted and mugged a 16-year-old girl.

The victim of that attack, who is still so terrified of Campbell that she has asked not to be identified, was stalked by him day and night. Campbell eventually pounced on her as she left her local pub, held a knife to her back and pushed her along the street, threatening to kill her.

He indecently assaulted her, punching her face, knocking her to the ground, kicking and beating her, then ripped her handbag from her grasp and ran off.

Campbell was jailed for four years in 1977 and Jennifer was so disgusted she left him. Undeterred, soon after his release he spotted Debbie Jones at the Blackshots swimming pool in Grays.

A classmate said: "We used to throw things at him, calling him 'pervert' and 'nonce', when we saw him perving over Debbie."

The friend added: "Debbie was beautiful, like a model. She was tall and skinny with long blonde hair and long slender legs."

Campbell persuaded her to pose for photos dressed only in a thong which he kept in a bag in his loft, where detectives were to find it last year.

The pair lived together for 13 years before marrying in August 1998. One of the bridesmaids was a 12-year-old Danielle, looking like a younger version of the bride.

Nine years earlier Debbie had provided Campbell with a false alibi when he was arrested for taking a 14-year-old girl without lawful authority. She found him alone with the tearful child who was in a swimming costume, saying she had been locked in a room and molested.

Debbie would not believe her, although Campbell pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 months' jail suspended for two years. He returned home to claim he had been cleared.

By this time Campbell was stalking his first wife Jennifer as well as regularly propositioning girls in the street and persuading them to pose for photographs in a locked room in his home, where he kept his computer and decorated the walls with lewd pictures.

When he was arrested police found hundreds of similar photographs of girls, many of whom have not been traced. Debbie - then pregnant with Sam, now 16 months - gave him an alibi for Danielle's murder, although she later retracted it.

She is still refusing to help police, who describe her as another of Campbell's long list of victims.

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