Forensic specialists are checking equipment found river where Suzanne Blamires′s body parts were dumped
Forensic specialists in Bradford are checking large black suitcase containing tools which was found police divers yesterday in the river Aire, close the weir where the body parts of murder victim Suzanne Blamires were discovered.
A small quantity of remains which could human also being analysed after they were discovered the same muddy stretch as the equipment.
The tools are thought include car maintenance DIY equipment.
Police continuing the river search at Shipley, four miles from central Bradford, in the hope finding links to two other women believed to have been murdered, Shelley Armitage Susan Rushworth.
Intense activity, including an excavation, continued near Bradford flat of Stephen Griffiths, 40, after he was charged killing all three women, who worked as prostitutes red light area nearby.
Police, working from group of marquees factory office car parks by Aire, expecting plenty of irrelevant material to emerge from an urban stretch of river often used for illegal dumping.
The site remains cordoned off, but people have attached small collection bouquets flowers nearby railings.
A spokeswoman West Yorkshire force said: “The tools undergo full forensic examination, at this stage it unclear whether remains found human or animal. Officers will search areas Bradford city centre river Aire throughout day also proactively following several lines inquiry. This will continue throughout bank holiday into next week.”
Although no trace has yet been found Armitage, 31, and Rushworth, 43, head Crown Prosecution Service’s complex case unit in West Yorkshire, Peter Mann, approved murder charges against Griffiths in all three cases.
He said on Thursday that close examination police material so far assembled convinced him that there was “sufficient evidence to charge Stephen Griffiths with their murders and that it in the public interest to do so”.
Griffiths has not yet entered plea, after brief appearances Friday at Bradford magistrates court the city’s crown court. He gave his name the district judge, Susan Bouch, as the “crossbow cannibal”, but agreed his correct name before Judge James Goss QC at the crown court.
Griffiths, who was educated at independent Queen Elizabeth’s grammar school in Wakefield and at Leeds University, will next appear in court on 7 June via video link from Wakefield prison. He had lived for 13 years in converted mill on Thornton Road, which also continues centre police activity.
Blamires’ partner said yesterday that he had accepted her work as prostitute pay the heroin which both were addicted. Ifty Hussein, who 37 and unemployed, denied that he had forced the 36-year-old the streets from the rundown house they shared.
He said: “I wish it was me who was dead. We were planning get clean in next month, make fresh start and get on our lives together.”
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