40-year-old questioned in connection suspected murder prostitutes after body parts found in river
Police tonight questioning man in connection with the suspected murder three women over period 11 months after body parts were found floating in Yorkshire river.
The remains one body – found the river Aire at Shipley, West Yorkshire Tuesday afternoon – yet to formally identified, but they believed to Suzanne Blamires. She and the two other women were sex workers.
Police confirmed that they arrested 40-year-old man Monday connection with her murder the disappearance the other two women.
Police thought have intensified investigations after Blamires, 36, Allerton, Bradford, went missing last Friday. Shelley Armitage, 31, also Allerton, has been missing since 26 April, and Susan Rushworth, 43, Manningham area, was last seen near her home on 22 June last year.
Assistant chief constable Jawaid Akhtar, of West Yorkshire police, said the man was originally being questioned on suspicion of murdering Blamires, but officers had been granted extra time to question him about the other two women.
“This a very thorough and painstaking inquiry into three missing women, all them sex workers, with all the necessary resources and expertise devoted to it,” he said.
A man who works at Shipley College said police had been searching the area intensively recent weeks. There had been police activity skips around the college the last few weeks, he said. When asked, police refused say what they were looking for, had been focusing efforts building Thornton Road.
Echoing the unease of many local resident, he said it was worrying that there had been three murders of prostitutes. “There has been nothing like this since the Yorkshire Ripper,” he said.
Today the area where the remains were found, close to an industrial estate the outskirts Shipley, had been cordoned off by police. During the afternoon detectives removed items, including computer, nearby car showroom.
A police spokeswoman said walker had spotted the remains floating the Aire.
Earlier this month, police launched poster appeal to try to trace Armitage, who was last seen between the late evening Monday 26 April the early morning the next day Rebecca Street, the red-light district Bradford city centre. Detectives described her as “a much-loved daughter sister” said her family were growing increasingly concerned her welfare.
A police spokeswoman said that Blamires had last been seen near her home Allerton. She was considered at risk because of her work her issues with alcohol drugs.
Detectives have been trying solve the murder Rebecca Hall, sex worker whose battered body was found an alleyway 2001, today said they were not linking the disappearance the three women the 19-year-old, who also worked Bradford.
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