Killer in a Small Town Ch 4 UK 9pm

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I have had my suspicions about this case for some time..apparently he had used prostitiutes for years and has always pleaded his innocense..who would murder a couple of young prostitutes and then with the media and police frenzy at it's height (knowing you would be caught) murder three more in a short space of time....Problem, Reaction Solution?...plus his appeal is forthcoming..

For years, prostitutes in Ipswich had worked the streets around the football stadium. Many of them were feeding drug habits and their activity was largely ignored but all that was to change in the winter of 2006 when, one by one, the working girls of Ipswich began to disappear.

The first to go missing was 19-year-old Tania Nicol. Her mother called the police, but they failed to track her down. Then, two weeks later, 25-year-old Gemma Adams was reported missing by her boyfriend. It was only then that her parents realised she was working the streets.

With two women missing from the same red light district, the police investigation began to escalate. When the bodies were found, both washed clean of DNA evidence but bearing signs of strangulation, it became clear that a serial killer was at work. It would take three more deaths before he was stopped.

When Steve Wright was arrested for the crimes and subsequently found guilty it caused shockwaves, not least among the group of working girls who knew him as a former punter.
'I wouldn't have suspected him for a minute,' says Tracey Russell. 'At the time, he was seeing other girls like me and he was just a regular punter. He wasn't violent, he wasn't nasty. He was just normal.

[lightgiver]

I have had my suspicions about this case for some time..apparently he had used prostitiutes for years and has always pleaded his innocense..who would murder a couple of young prostitutes and then with the media and police frenzy at it's height (knowing you would be caught) murder three more in a short space of time....Problem, Reaction Solution?...plus his appeal is forthcoming..

For years, prostitutes in Ipswich had worked the streets around the football stadium. Many of them were feeding drug habits and their activity was largely ignored but all that was to change in the winter of 2006 when, one by one, the working girls of Ipswich began to disappear.

The first to go missing was 19-year-old Tania Nicol. Her mother called the police, but they failed to track her down. Then, two weeks later, 25-year-old Gemma Adams was reported missing by her boyfriend. It was only then that her parents realised she was working the streets.

With two women missing from the same red light district, the police investigation began to escalate. When the bodies were found, both washed clean of DNA evidence but bearing signs of strangulation, it became clear that a serial killer was at work. It would take three more deaths before he was stopped.

When Steve Wright was arrested for the crimes and subsequently found guilty it caused shockwaves, not least among the group of working girls who knew him as a former punter.
'I wouldn't have suspected him for a minute,' says Tracey Russell. 'At the time, he was seeing other girls like me and he was just a regular punter. He wasn't violent, he wasn't nasty. He was just normal.

Would it not be easier for drug users to get clean needles and heroin from rehab centres. Problem solved.

To easy for TPTB.,you see the crime rate would drop immediately and they know it,and then women would not need to walk the streets to feed their habits.

order out of chaos comes to mind.

[diamond dogs]

Well if I had any doubts before I certainly don't have now..absolutely unbelievable and Pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary featured heavily in the prog...some of those girls were very feisty and for sure they would have put up a Very Good fight against a middle aged man ....absolute travesty (another) IMO

Steve Wright

The "striking" similarities between the girls - all were young, all were addicted to hard drugs and all had to work as prostitutes to support their habit and in articular one girl was featured on TV only to be found murdered soon after. Five women whose bodies were found in the Ipswich area may have been unable to fight off their killer because they were high on drugs, a court heard. Pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary told jurors the women may have been too intoxicated to resist attack.

Ian Huntley

The discovery of the bodies at Warren Hill on the 13th of August corresponds with the finding of the coroner, who judged that the bodies had been moved to the woodland at Lakenheath and that the victims almost certainly had not been killed where their bodies were found. If the typical prowler killer had murdered them, they would most certainly have been killed where they were dumped, which site could have been at Warren Hill. Dr Nathaniel Cary told the Old Bailey that while the decomposed state of the bodies meant he could not rule out Mr Huntley's claim that the girls had died in a sequence of events on pathological evidence, he had never heard of such a case.

Benazhir Bhutto

Current Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf asked UK police to investigate the death of Bhutto, who was killed as she stood up through the escape hatch of her vehicle during a rally in Rawalpindi on December 27. The report said Bhutto’s only injury was a major trauma to the right side of the head, which happened when she hit the escape hatch and not because of a gun wound. It also said a lone terrorist fired three shots, all of which missed Benazir, who then ducked into her vehicle. Home Office pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary said: “The only tenable cause for the rapidly fatal head injury in this case is that it occurred as the result of impact due to the effects of the bomb blast.”

Bob Woolmer

The inquest opens. The first witness to testify is Bernice Robinson, the maid who was the first to discover Bob Woolmer's body. She describes how she had knocked on Woolmer's door an hour previously, but not entered because she had heard snoring. She states that on entering the room she saw an upturned chair, and blood and vomit stains on a pillow. Woolmer's body was positioned in such a way that she was unable to enter the bathroom.
British pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary testifies that "Mr Woolmer had a heart condition and he had diabetes, plus he was found behind a door as if he had suffered an attack". He added that he could not state conclusively what had caused the death: "if I was asked if there was a violent struggle [in the room] I would say 'no'".

Sally Clark

Sally Clark, the solicitor who was wrongly convicted of killing her two baby sons, appears to have died of natural causes, an inquest was told yesterday.
Further tests are needed to establish a definite cause of death, the coroner heard. Mrs Clark, 42, was found dead at her home in Essex by a friend on Friday morning. Paramedics were called, but they could not revive her.
Two Home Office pathologists, including Dr Nathaniel Cary, who was instructed by the Clark family, carried out post-mortem tests yesterday.


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