The remains of his first known victim, Susan Rushworth, 43, have never been found. She had the words ‘my sex slave’ daubed in black spray paint on her back.ĭetectives believe she was killed with one of the two blood-stained crossbows found in Griffiths’s flat. Police recovered horrific video camera footage of her naked and apparently lifeless body trussed up in his flat. Miss Armitage was killed a month before Miss Blamires and two sections of her body were found in the river near Miss Blamires' remains. Yesterday the PhD student, now 40, who executed his final victim knowingly in front of a CCTV camera, pleaded guilty to murdering three prostitutes, achieving his grotesque ambition to join the ranks of the country’s most notorious convicted serial killers as he pleaded guilty to killing Miss Armitage, Susan Rushworth and Suzanne Blamires. He even told a probation officer he would kill when he reached his 30s - and he did. He idolised Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe and repeatedly admitted his horrific bloodlust to psychiatrists, yet he was not locked up to protect the public because he was seen as ‘bad’ rather than ‘mentally ill’. The 31-year-old and two other prostitutes were murdered by Griffiths, a known psychopath who was obsessed with becoming a serial killer. Guilty: Stephen Griffiths, the 'Crossbow Cannibal', has pleaded guilty to killing three prostitutesĪ father has spoken of his trauma at seeing 'Crossbow Cannibal' Stephen Griffiths on camera with a rucksack apparently containing his daughter's remains.ĭaryl Armitage revealed how he went 'numb' after police showed him pictures of the serial killer responsible for the murders of at least three women carrying the bag at a train station in West Yorkshire.Ī bag containing some of Shelley's bones was later found nearby.
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