Billie-Jo Jenkins

In 2010, the British Government refused an application from Jenkins for financial compensation for his imprisonment.

On 19 January 2008, in Alexandra Park, Hastings, a memorial seat made from a locally felled oak tree by local artist Joc Hare, was dedicated to the memory of Billie-Jo. The first few words on the seat read, "Side by side or miles apart, friends are close to the heart".

At the retrial, forensic scientists stated that the microscopic blood spray could conceivably have been released from Billie Jo's injured airway as Jenkins moved her. The jury was unable to come to a majority verdict after 39 hours of deliberating. A second retrial was likewise unable to reach a majority verdict, and at the Old Bailey in London, on 9 February 2006, Siôn Jenkins was declared in consequence not guilty. The Crown Prosecution Service indicated that no further retrials of Jenkins would be sought, and he was formally acquitted.

Investigative journalist Bob Woffinden believed that it was a miscarriage of justice. An appeal in 1999 failed, but in May 2003 following a two-year investigation by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, his case was referred back to the Court of Appeal. The basis for the referral outlined in the Commission's Statement of Reasons was that: "There is evidence, not before the jury, that suggests Mr Jenkins could not have committed the murder". The second appeal in August 2004 was successful and the Court of Appeal quashed his original conviction as unsafe and ordered a retrial, with Jenkins being released on bail.

After a trial by jury he was convicted on 2 July 1998 of the murder of Jenkins and sentenced to life imprisonment.

On 15 February 1997, she was beaten to death at the family home. Siôn Jenkins was subsequently charged with murder and stood trial and was convicted, whilst maintaining his innocence. An appeal in 1999 against his conviction failed, but after a second appeal in August 2004 it was quashed by a court as unsafe and he was released on bail pending a retrial. The juries in two retrials were unable to reach verdicts, and a 'Not Guilty' verdict was returned by a court in 2006.

On 15 February 1997, the body of 13-year-old Billie-Jo Jenkins was found in the back garden of the family home in Hastings, East Sussex. She had been battered over the head with an iron tent peg whilst painting the patio doors alone; the rest of the family had reportedly been away from the property at the time. An unnamed local man was arrested on suspicion of murder soon afterwards, but then released from police custody and detained under the Mental Health Act. On 24 February, her foster father Sion Jenkins was arrested on suspicion of murder. He was charged with murder on 14 March.

Billie-Jo Margaret Jenkins (29 March 1983 – 15 February 1997) was an English girl who was murdered in Hastings, East Sussex in February 1997. The case gained widespread media attention and remains unsolved.