![]() ![]() Stone was known to have been violent towards his partners. In prison, he attacked various prison officers. Throughout his criminal career, Stone would steal from garden sheds, taking anything he could sell, and would mug people at cash dispensers, in part to fund his heroin addiction. The first robbery was at Maidstone's Hazlitt Theatre, and the second was at the Leeds Building Society branch in Brighton, where he stole £577. He was then sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for two armed robberies in Maidstone and Brighton respectively during the same week in 1986. When he was sentenced for this crime, the sentencing judge remarked that Stone's violent nature could lead to him killing someone in the future. He then received a four-and-a-half year sentence for stabbing a friend while he slept in 1983, an attack that penetrated the friend's lung and nearly killed him, and he tried to wound a police officer in the eye after this arrest. Stone was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1981 for attacking a man with a hammer during a robbery. He became a figure in the criminal underworld of the Medway towns of Kent. ![]() He was known to carry weapons, including knives and guns, and would also attack victims with ammonia squirted from a Jif lemon bottle. He served three prison sentences in the 1980s and 1990s for robbery, burglary, grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Once leaving the care system, Stone began using heroin, and soon developed a £1,500 a week heroin addiction. Stone's police record dates back to 1972 at the age of 12 and continued into adulthood. From the age of nine, he began using drugs and committing crimes. He was known to be prone to uncontrolled outbursts and aggressive mood swings. As a boy, he had also been beaten with a hammer, and witnessed his mother's former partner attack another man with a meat cleaver in his home. Stone had a turbulent childhood, suffering domestic violence in his family home before he was placed in a care home, where he was abused. Although the name of his father was registered, and therefore given on his birth certificate, as "Ivor Goodban", there was uncertainty over the true identity of his father and Stone regarded a different partner of his mother, Peter Stone, as having been his father. Stone was born as Michael John Goodban in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent in 1960, one of five children. He is also known to have previously killed his partner through an accidental heroin overdose. Stone remains the prime suspect in an unsolved murder that occurred in Maidstone in 1976. ![]() In February 2022, Stone's solicitor said that Bellfield had confessed to the murder of both Lin and Megan, although the truthfulness of the confession remains in doubt. His legal team argues that the serial killer Levi Bellfield could possibly be the true perpetrator of the attack. Stone maintains his innocence and continues to contest his conviction. ![]() He was sentenced to three life sentences with a tariff of 25 years for the Russell killings. Michael Stone (born Michael John Goodban in 1960) is a British man who was convicted of the 1996 murders of Lin and Megan Russell and the attempted murder of Josie Russell, and who is a suspected serial killer. ![]()
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