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Victim of Ipswich Ripper: I Need the Money
A prostitute who was one of five suspected victims of a U.K. serial
killer spoke about her job four days before she disappeared.
Paula Clennell, 24, one of five suspected victims of a U.K. serial
killer, gave a TV interview days before she disappeared.
Clennell said knew she was taking a chance by continuing to work the
streets in the red light district of Ipswich, in the eastern English
county of Suffolk, even though the body of one local prostitute had
already been found and another woman was missing.
"I need the money," Clennell told regional broadcaster ITV Anglia. "I
am a bit wary about getting into cars," adding that she had "a couple
of nasty experiences," including being beaten up once.
"The girls are probably wary about coming out now," she said. The woman
has been missing since December 9.
Clennell has not been since Saturday, and her body was feared to be one
of two corpses found Tuesday south of Ipswich, bringing the death total
at the hands of the "Ipswich Ripper" to five.
Police believe two bodies found in Suffolk yesterday were Clennell and
another prostitute Annette Nicholls, 29, although that has yet to be
formally confirmed, Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull told
the media.
In Suffolk, five bodies have been found in 10 days within 10 miles of
each other. All were naked and found in woods and streams close to a
main road.
The bodies of the first two murdered prostitutes, Gemma Adams, 25, and
19-year-old Tania Nicol, who both worked in red lights district of
Ipswich, were found on December 2 and 9 respectively. The strangled
body of a third woman, 24-year-old Anneli Alderton, was found on
December 10.
The women appeared to have been killed somewhere else, police said.
There were no obvious signs of sexual assault against the women.
"We will do everything we can to support the police in the difficult
and challenging work that they do," Prime Minister Tony Blair told
lawmakers in Parliament today.
"We all want this monster to be caught and to be locked up," David
Cameron, leader of the opposition Conservative Party, said.
If responsible for five murders, the serial killer already named
"Ipswich Ripper" would be the worst serial killer of prostitutes in the
U.K. since Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, and he is
killing at a faster rate. It was possible there may be more than one
killer, police said.
The unknown serial killer called Jack the Ripper killed at least five
prostitutes in east London in 1888.
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