In , a second person was tried for Royal's murder. As with the previous defendant, someone close to him having a connection to the man Royal had fatally stabbed in this case his girlfriend, who was the sister of that man was viewed as a motive, and he spent nearly 14 years in prison for the murder before his conviction was overturned in Two people were charged in connection with Jackson's murder, but there was not enough evidence to prosecute. A third man who was also charged but whom the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence against later died, and his mother said that he never recovered from the trauma of his arrest and charge.
At the time of his murder, Jackson was suffering from cancer and did not have long to live. A former psychiatric nurse from Charminster , Dorset, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to nine concurrent terms of life imprisonment on 10 February for the kidnap, rape and attempted rape of a number of disabled women. He was also charged with the kidnap of Ramsden; however, due to insufficient evidence, the case was dismissed at a pre-trial hearing.
In January , two brothers-in-law β men other than those arrested in June β were charged with Payne's murder, [ ] but on 16 November, they were unanimously found not guilty. On 21 January , the day after the 20th anniversary of the murder, police announced they were reviewing the case and hoped that advances in forensic analysis and DNA profiling would bring the killer to justice.
Links with convicted killer Stephen Griffiths and the murder of Michaela Hague in have been suggested. Cannon's partner was retried towards the end of , at which hearing it was stated that had the defence team for his earlier trial called in their own forensic experts, they might have been able to put forth evidence to support his claim that the droplets of her blood on his clothing, rather than being spatter from bullet wounds, had been coughed up by her as he held her in his arms while she was dying.
A verdict of "not proven" was announced when the retrial concluded. In an update on Crimewatch in , police revealed that they had managed to trace everyone that had been captured on CCTV entering and exiting Hewer's block of flats that night except for one man, who as of the s would be between about 60 and 70 years old.
