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This really is awful! I agree, just because they're prostitutes doesn't mean there any different from anybody else. I hope the police get this truly evil man soon as he is striking very fast indeed! My sympathy goes out to the murdered women's families and friends. It truly is horrifying..i can't believe there are people around like this in the 21st Century...the police need to catch this person soon!
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I live in Ipswich, its scary at the moment. My best friend at college knew two of the girls who were murdered. Yesterday I tried to find the words to comfort her, but its not easy.
Thanks to the people that acknowledge that these people do have hopes and dreams. The life of a prostitute isnt an easy one - I mean lets face who would turn round and say to their parents/teachers 'oh one day I would love to be a prostitute'. I know one girl leaves behind a 5 year old child - i cant imagine what they are going through and the victims friends and family.
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It says one of the girls had lost contact with her mother. How hard must it be for her to wake up and see her daughter on the TV.
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its come out now that police have found one of the girls murdered was pregnant. Its just really horrible to read in the papers.
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A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering five women whose bodies were found at sites around the Ipswich area.
Supermarket worker Tom Stephens was arrested by police at his home at Trimley St Martin, near Felixstowe.
He is being held on suspicion of murdering prostitutes Gemma Adams, Anneli Alderton, Tania Nicol, Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls.
Mr Stephens is in custody at an unnamed police station in Suffolk.
He is due to be questioned by detectives later on Monday.
'Knew Gemma'
Speaking in an interview with BBC News last week for background purposes, Mr Stephens said he had known Miss Adams for about 18 months - "about as long as I've known any of the girls".
He added: "Tania I've only known for about six months but in the end I did actually get to know Tania better than I knew Gemma.
"I didn't know Anneli at all, I've only every spoken to her since both Tania and Gemma went missing, partly to say, if you know anything, please talk to the police and if you won't talk to the police, please talk to me and I'll talk to the police.
"And also trying to say 'are you okay' and trying, I don't know what I was trying to say.
"Pretty much all the girls who I didn't know before I've tried to speak to since in that way."
Mr Stephens' house in Jubilee Close had been visited by police earlier in the investigation and items had been taken away for examination.
Det Ch Supt Stewart Gull said: "We will not be naming the police station where the man is being held.
"As legal proceedings are now active, Suffolk Police will not be issuing further comments or appeals at this stage."
The five dead women, aged between 19 and 29, were all found naked in rural settings within 10 miles of Ipswich.
They worked as prostitutes and all were drug-users. Their bodies were found close to the A14 road.
Police divers
The body of Miss Adams, 25, who went missing on 15 November, was found in a brook at Hintlesham, Suffolk, by a member of the public on 2 December.
Tania Nicol's body was found by police divers searching areas of water at Copdock Mill, near Ipswich, on 8 December.
Miss Nicol, 19, was last seen after leaving her home in Ipswich on 30 October.
The body of Anneli Alderton, 24, was found in woodland in Nacton, near Ipswich, on 10 December.
On 12 December detectives found the bodies of Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29, near the village of Levington.
Mr Stephens was arrested at 0720 GMT on Monday in the village, which is close to the A14 road between Ipswich and Felixstowe.
Trimley St Martin was last in the national news when 17-year-old Vicky Hall vanished on her way home from a nightclub in Felixstowe in 1999 and was found dead in a water-filled ditch at Creeting St Peter - 25 miles from Felixstowe.
It was believed she had been asphyxiated but a post-mortem examination proved inconclusive.
Police have not linked this case with the deaths of the five prostitutes.
On Monday they were unable to confirm Mr Stephens would be questioned about Miss Hall's murder.
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A 48-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murders of five women found in the Suffolk countryside.
He is being held on suspicion of murdering prostitutes Gemma Adams, Anneli Alderton, Tania Nicol, Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls.
The first suspect, Tom Stephens, 37, was arrested on Monday.
The second person was arrested at his Ipswich home at 0500 GMT. Police activity has been reported at a house in the London Road area of Ipswich.
Det Ch Supt Stewart Gull said: "The man is currently in custody at a police station in Suffolk where he will be questioned about the deaths later.
"Police will not be naming the police station where the man is being held."
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I was reading something about that this morning.. apparently he went to the paper and said he knew all these women and had sex with them all but didn't kill them. He is an ex special force police man and is now a taxi driver. He actually went on to say that he didn't have an alibi and could be arrested for the murders... Why would he do that? give out his name and address and that kind of information??? He could be innocent!!!
Source Metro (local irish paper)
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The initial man they've arrested is apparently still in custody, and he was also a special constable too. Mind you, after watching Wire in the Blood etc, they tend to go into the police stations and play with the police, so you end up wondering, if these are the guys that have done it, and are just playing to see how much evidence is actually against them, or what really.
Sick sick people though
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It is sick.. It makes me wonder that it is them and they want to be caught for fame or something.. it goes down with the other Ripper murders!!! why would anyone do that!!!
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Some people have a very strange craving for fame dont they?! Like you say, these killings will go down with the Ripper murders etc, yet in some respects, and no disrespect to anyone, if it is the two people arrested, they didn't exactly give the police a run around at all did they, where as the Ripper killings went on for far longer.
I truly hope justice is served on these people, but I honestly don't think our system will serve out the punishment that is deserved.
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