A Wisbech murder of a woman stabbed multiple times in her home is to feature in Channel 4’s ’24 Hours in Police Custody’ next week. The double episode of the investigation into the murder of Eliza Bibby will air at 9pm on Monday (September 9) and Tuesday (September 10).
The programmes follow the Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit as they investigate Eliza’s death at her home in Wisbech in January 2023.
Eliza, 47, was found by a friend lying in a pool of blood at 6am the following day.
“With a list of potential suspects and conflicting accounts, the team faced a difficult task to uncover the truth,” says a police spokesperson.
“The investigation discovered a network of drugs activity and possible suspects during the hunt for Eliza’s killer or killers.”
Detective Inspector Dale Mepstead, who led the investigation, said: “The documentary follows the team from day one through what is a complex and challenging murder investigation.
“It takes the audience through all lines of enquiries as we work to discover who is responsible for Eliza’s death
“This was a tragic case which really exposes the devastating consequences of drug addiction, and my thoughts remain with Eliza’s family.”
In November last year, Jamie Boughen was found guilty of her murder and sentenced to life in prison, serving a minimum of 22 years.
Boughen, 48, of Waterlees Road, Wisbech, denied killing Eliza in interview and said he couldn’t remember what he was doing the night she was murdered.
In November last year Jamie Boughen was found guilty of murder. He must serve a minimum of 22 years.
He was found guilty of murdering Eliza Bibby at her home in Beechwood Road on 9 January 2023 after fatally stabbing her in the neck multiple times.
Boughen disposed of the knife and made his way home where he tried to remove any trace of Eliza’s blood on his body, clothing, or footwear. The next day he bought a pair of replacement trainers.
Specialist officers were brought in to search the house and surrounding streets and it wasn’t long before they found the knife on a garage roof in nearby Beechwood Close.
The knife was found to have the victim’s blood on the blade and Boughen’s DNA on the handle. The blade also matched the wounds suffered by the victim.
Boughen was arrested at his home in Waterlees Road, Wisbech, on 9 March on suspicion of the murder.
A search of his house uncovered internal CCTV cameras. The footage for the night in question was downloaded and showed Boughen leaving the property at 10.41pm and returning at 11.04pm.
Once he returned, he washed his clothes in the sink with bleach and scrubbed under his fingernails.
In interview, Boughen maintained his innocence and said he couldn’t remember what he had been doing that night and it wasn’t unusual to be washing his clothes at 1am.
In court he claimed he knew Bibby and would routinely buy drugs from her. On the day of her death, he said he went to her home, the door was ajar, and he went inside. He saw the knife and picked it up.
He then came across her lifeless body, panicked, and ran, throwing the knife on the garage roof as he went.
At Cambridge Crown Court after less than three hours of deliberation, the jury disagreed with his version of events and returned a unanimous guilty verdict for murder.
