The prime suspect within the homicide of Suzy Lamplugh has died in jail on the age of 70.
Convicted killer John Cannan was jailed for no less than 35 years in 1989 for the rape and homicide of Bristol newlywed Shirley Banks.
In 2002, police took the extremely uncommon step of naming him because the suspected killer of Ms Lamplugh after the CPS dominated there was inadequate proof to prosecute him.
The Jail Service mentioned the Class A prisoner died on November 6 at HMP Full Sutton.
‘As with all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will examine,’ a spokesperson mentioned.
Suzy Lamplugh, a 25 12 months previous property agent, vanished on July 28, 1986, after going to point out a person round a home in Fulham
Convicted killer John Cannan was the prime suspect of her homicide. He has died in jail on the age of 70
Property agent Ms Lampugh vanished on July 28, 1986, aged 25 after going to point out a person round a home in Fulham.
The case stays one in all Britain’s most infamous unsolved crimes and her physique has by no means been discovered.
The one clue to her disappearance was an appointment she put in her work diary suggesting she was displaying the property to a ‘Mr Kipper’, who has by no means been traced.
Three days earlier than she vanished Cannan had been launched from a hostel at Wormwood Scrubs jail, the place he had been serving a six-year sentence for rape.
It later emerged that in jail he was identified by different inmates as Kipper.
Former automotive salesman Cannan additionally had entry to a BMW automotive of the kind thought to have been pushed by ‘Mr Kipper’ and resembled a photofit of a person seen with Miss Lamplugh exterior the Fulham flat on the day she disappeared.
Cannan had all the time maintained his innocence and insisted in a letter final December that he didn’t kill Ms Lamplugh.
Newlywed Shirley Banks was killed by John Cannan in 1987. Her physique was not discovered till the next 12 months
The one clue to Ms Lamplugh’s (pictured) disappearance was an appointment she put in her work diary suggesting she was displaying the property to a ‘Mr Kipper’, who has by no means been traced.
He despatched a handwritten word by way of his legal professionals to The Mirror stating that he had not been in London however was as an alternative in Birmingham ‘treating my mom to a spot of lunch’ on the day Miss Lamplugh went lacking.
Within the rambling letter, he instructed the newspaper that he needed to make a lot of ‘factors’ given the media highlight on his case after he was denied parole earlier this 12 months.
Ms Lamplugh’s late dad and mom Paul and Diana devoted their lives to discovering her and established the Suzy Lamplugh Belief to enhance consciousness of private security.
Cannan was discovered responsible of the brutal homicide of Shirley Banks, who he killed in 1987.
The newlywed’s physique was not discovered till the next 12 months at Lifeless Girl’s Ditch within the Quantock Hills, Somerset.
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