Prostitute killer 'is sick'
2006-12-13 14:07
Ipswich - The anguished father of a prostitute feared killed by a serial murderer in a quiet English town has called for the culprit to be shot.
A clearly distraught Brian Clennell spoke of his emotions as police raced against time to prevent the killer striking again in the eastern port town of Ipswich, where five women have been killed in ten days.
"He's sick. He's got to be caught, he's got to be shot," said Clennell, whose 24-year-old daughter Paula is missing, and feared to be one of two bodies found near the town on Tuesday.
"It could be anybody's father, it could be anybody's uncle, it could be anybody," he said.
Three other prostitutes have already been confirmed dead at the hands of the killer or killers. Police fear the two latest bodies are those of Paula Clennell and 29-year-old Annette Nicholls, bringing the murder toll to five.
Brian Clennell admitted that he did not even know his daughter, who he had not seen for some years, had turned to prostitution as a way to fund a drug habit.
"I'm going through hell," he told the BBC, struggling to control his emotions, adding that his daughter had been "led up the wrong path at the wrong time".
"What sort of person does this? This person must be walking around the streets like one of us but he is not - he isn't human.
"Someone out there must know who he is. Somebody's husband is coming home in he middle of the night and they must be suspicious," he said.
- AFP