Five Women Killed In Or Around Ipswhich

[Captain VXR]

This really is sick, even if they were call girls.[rant] I hope the police find the sicko who did it and torture him to death. WHOEVER DID THIS IS A !@#?ing ******. TO HIM THAT THING (worse than a maneating tiger because they only do it to survive and are not violent idiotic perverts who should be in a rubber room since last century). I HOPE THE COPS KILL WHOEVER DID IT.[/rant]

[Dave B]

One bit at a time. "Only" call girls? This is why I don't agree when the call goes up for tougher sentences for those who kill police officers. Why make the disctinction. A life's a life.

And your call for cops to kill whoever did it. I assume you're calling for the death penalty to be applied by a court? Well, to attain a conviction the jury must be "beyond reasonable doubt" that the crime took place. Let's say that once this case comes to court that it's 99% certain that the police have the right person. But 1% uncertain - because very little in this life is black and white. A jury faced with putting someone to death would probably find the accused innocent purely on that 1% of doubt.

Your sentiment is understandable, but you really need to take a breath and think what you're saying before you post.

[Hazell B]

Do you know the bit that bothers me most?

Men just won't get this (sorry, but you can't really) but there is a one in six million chance of any woman in this country beingt killed by this/these murdering barstewards. That's twice the chance of lottery winning.

Yet still it's a Suffolk police issue with no specialists being brought in.

Do they think the loon doing this doesn't have a road map out of the area?

If it was just normal, random men being killed, not working girls, there would be more police involved by order of the Home Secretary. If it was rich City men being killed, they'd have had me, pensioners and one legged blind hobbos in uniform patrolling the streets two days ago

[LotusElise]

Sadly true.
I am in no way an apologist for the "sex industry" but these women deserved protection as citizens, just as everyone else deserves protection from this madman on the loose. He needs to be caught and quickly.

[suzy m]

Yet still it's a Suffolk police issue with no specialists being brought in.

They have just been saying on the BBC news that police from other forces across the country are being brought in to help.

One thing that's bugging me - how did the TV cameras get so quickly to the area where the latest bodies were found? From the ITV news just now, it looks like they nearly beat the police to the scene!

[jim mcglinchey]

Sure the TV crews were in the area waiting with baited breath and engines running for such a development.

What bugs me is the knee jerk pulling from the TV schedules of a serious documentary on the realities of the whole prostitution business. It wasn't that silly brothel-set sit com that was on a few months back, but a serious insight from a respected commentator.

[Daniel]

What about a fair trial to actually find out if the person's guilty or not?

I agree that it seems that the media and the police seem to be less worried about this as it's "only" prostitutes who are at risk which I find a little wrong shall we say. Everyone is equal and the fact that they're prostitutes matters little. They're people and they deserve to have their case treated no differently to you or I

[oily oaf]

I have to say my oily blood was at boiling point yesterday as I listened to some of the denegrating remarks levelled at these working girls (not call girls mate. They're something entirely different) by callers to a London phone in programme.

Gawd alone knows what privations and abuse some of these kids went through to force them into this most base of lifestyles.
After all I've never yet heard a little girl announce proudly to her parents when asked about her future ambition "Well mummy I'd like to roam dangerous ill lit streets at the dead of night and in all weathers before selling my arse to a bunch of 2 bob losers who are either too ugly or too socially inept to get a girlfriend" (with the probable exception of Jodie Marsh that is ).

Job for Inspector Morse this one. FACT.

[Mark]

I imagine specialist investigation crews / profilers / you name it, are being brought in from all over the country. After all, every force is going to want to get in on this one! Besides, it's speculated that the killer may well not live locally, he/she may commute along the A14 to commit their crimes

Having said that Suffolk police are the best people to head it up, as it is their patch and nobody knows it better than them.

[Ian McC]

Horrible, worse when it is closer to home.

I hope they catch the people/person responsible quick before anyone else dies