Jump to content

John Cannan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Cannan
Born
John David Guise Cannan

(1954-02-20)20 February 1954(age 70)
Sutton Coldfield,Warwickshire,UK
Criminal statusIn prison
Conviction(s)
  • Indecent assault (1968)
  • Rape (1981)
  • Murder, rape, abduction and attempted kidnap (1989)
Criminal penalty
Details
Span of crimes
1968–1987
CountryUnited Kingdom
Date apprehended
1987
Imprisoned atHM Prison Full Sutton

John David Guise Cannan(born 20 February 1954)[1][2]is a Britishmurderer,serialrapist,serialabductorand suspectedserial killer.[3]He was convicted in July 1988 and given threelife sentencesfor the murder of Shirley Banks inBristolin October 1987; the attempted kidnapping of Julia Holman on the previous night; the rape of a woman inReading,Berkshire,in 1986; the rape of his girlfriend in December 1980; and several other abductions, attempted abductions and sexual offences. He became eligible forparolein September 2023, which was refused in October 2023.

Cannan is the only suspect in thedisappearance of Suzy Lamplugh,who had an appointment in July 1986 to meet a man calling himself 'Mr Kipper' and has not been seen since. In November 2002, theCrown Prosecution Servicedecided that there was insufficient evidence to charge him.[4]That monthScotland Yardheld a press conference at which, in a rare move, officers named Cannan as the man they believed murdered Lamplugh.[5]Cannan says he knows who killed Lamplugh, and states that this person is the same person responsible for themurder of Shirley Banks,of which he himself was convicted. DNA evidence showed Lamplugh had previously been in a car Cannan used at the time of her disappearance.

Early life

[edit]

John Cannan was born to father Cyril Cannan, aflight lieutenantin theRoyal Air Forceduring theSecond World War,and career engineer, and housewife mother Sheila Cannan inSutton Coldfield,Birmingham,on 20 February 1954. Cannan came from a middle-class family and attendedpublic schooluntil the age of 15.[1]He was first sent by his parents to Keyseprivate schoolfor boysat age 4.[6]Cannan has said that, when he was seven or eight years old, a teachersexually abusedhim, forcing him to drop his trousers and touch the abuser while being indecently assaulted himself; he continued to be abused by the teacher for months.[7]These events had a lasting effect on Cannan, who felt deeply ashamed by them, and he became afraid of school and developed astammerfrom being nervous in the school environment.[7][8][9]

At age 9, Cannan was removed from the school and taken to a doctor over hisanxiety.[7]Cannan later claimed that the sexual abuse left him struggling with feelings of humiliation and shame, which in turn led him to express much anger and resentment.[10]Cannan also had a difficult relationship with his father, "who was quick to criticise and had an unpredictable temper."[10]Cannan was in the merchant navy for three months aged 17 then began working as a car salesman in his father's company.[11]He was married in May 1978 to June Vale and had a daughter but left them in 1980.[12][9]

Sexual offences and robberies

[edit]

In 1968, at age 14, Cannanindecently assaulteda woman in aphone boxinErdington,[9]for which he was placed onprobation.[13][14]He married his first wife, June Vale, in May 1978, seven years after they had originally become engaged. She would prove to be his one and only steady girlfriend although he claimed that he was hassled into marrying her.[15]Vale soon gave birth to a child, which Cannan did not want. By 1980, he had slipped intoalcoholismand spent much of his time frequenting bars and nightclubs in order to avoid going home to his family after work.[16]

House For Sale Rapist

[edit]

Starting from the late 1970s up until 1980, during the final years of Cannan's troubled marriage, a series of mysterious and brutal rapes occurred in homes for sale in theWest Midlands,where he was living at that time.[17][18]The unidentified rapist specifically targeted homes on the market at estate agents and became known as theHouse For Sale Rapist.Twenty women were assaulted and raped in properties in the area, and no one was ever arrested for the crimes.[17]Police now suspect that Cannan was responsible for these offences, and that he began committing them as his marriage deteriorated. The rapes stopped in early 1980, around the time Cannan began a new relationship with a woman named Sharon Major.[17][19]

Detectives would later note that the offences bore all the hallmarks of his later crimes and also noted the similarities to the disappearance of Lamplugh, who herself was an estate agent.[17]Notably, Cannan showed up uninvited to a house that was for sale in Shorrolds Road inFulhamdays before Lamplugh was last seen there, believing that the young female occupant was alone in the house.[20][21]He was acting strangely until the woman's husband appeared, causing him to quickly leave.[21]

1980–1987

[edit]

Cannan left his wife in 1980 for Major, whom he attacked when she tried to leave him,[9]turning up at her house onNew Year's Evewith a bottle of wine and, unbeknownst to her, a gun. He strangled her during the rape while telling her he was going to kill her. Major was able to fight Cannan off and was taken to hospital in an ambulance.[22]Cannan told her on the way to the hospital that he had meant to kill her.[22]Cannan robbed a petrol station kiosk in February 1981, using a knife to threaten two female assistants.[13]In March that year, during a robbery at a ladies' knitwear shop, Cannanrapedshop assistant Jean Bradford[19]at knifepoint after threatening to stab her 17-month-old baby, who was in a back room; Bradford's mother arrived during the attack, only to be tied up by Cannan and made to watch the attack.[13][23]

In mid-1987 Cannan bought a darkBMW 3-series

At Birmingham Crown Court on 26 June 1981, after pleading guilty, Cannan was sentenced to five years imprisonment for raping Bradford and aconsecutivethree years for two counts of robbery.[2]He served five years of his eight-year sentence.[24]Cannan served his sentence atHM Prison Bristolbefore being transferred toPortland, Dorset,and then toLondon.[9]From 25 January 1986, until the end of his sentence in July, he was serving his sentence inopen prisonconditions in a prisonhostelatWormwood Scrubs,meaning he was on day release at the time of the murder of Sandra Court in Bournemouth in May and in the lead up to thedisappearance of Suzy Lamplughin July of that year.[24]He attemptedsuicidein September bytaking 68 paracetamol tablets.[25]

Police say that Cannan'smodus operandiwas to pretend to be aWest Countrybusinessman. He would ply women with chocolates and flowers and then attack when the women rejected him.[26]Between 1986 and 1987, Cannan had an affair with his solicitor; he then threatened her and her family.[27]Only ten weeks after his release from prison,[13]Cannan raped a woman at knifepoint inReadingin October 1986, an attack he was linked to by DNA fromsemen.[8]Cannan had come up to the woman's car asking for directions, then brandished a knife and raped andsodomisedher. Cannan had been arrested for this offence earlier but denied everything,[28]giving thealibithat he was in Sutton Coldfield at the time of the attack. The forensic evidence was not strong enough to charge him; an early DNA profile test was inconclusive.[29]

In 1988, as part of the evidence-gathering about Cannan for the investigation into the murder of Shirley Banks, theHome Officeran the DNA test again, by which time the DNA testing technology had improved and demonstrated a match.[29]Further DNA testing byICIlaboratories also found a match: they had been asked to run the tests because they had more sophisticated DNA testing equipment.[29]Police also used evidence from Cannan's cashpoint card to prove that he had travelled from London to Bristol that day. Reading is on the railway line between these cities.[29]

Footage of Cannan's September 1987 video-dating advert, released by police:VideoonYouTube

In September 1987, Cannan signed up for a video-dating agency, giving the fake name of "John Peterson".[18][30]AnHTV Westnews report in 1989 said that Cannan's dating video had received a high response from other daters.[31]Berry and Odell maintain that his video-dating advert was not shown to other daters due to concerns surrounding his odd behaviour.[30]

The following month in October 1987, Cannan tried to abduct 30-year-old Bristol businesswoman Julia Holman from a car park at around 6:50 pm at gunpoint, but she fought him off and later identified him as her attacker.[8][29]

Murder of Shirley Banks

[edit]

Disappearance

[edit]

Shirley Banks,who was a newly married 29-year-old textiles factory manager fromClifton,[32]was abducted on the evening of 8 October 1987 some time after 7:40 pm[14]while out on a shopping trip to theBroadmeadcentre. Her husband searched for her in bars when she failed to return home, as they had agreed to meet for a drink; when he rang her work the next morning, he was told she had just phoned in sick with an upset stomach 15 minutes earlier. When she again failed to return home, he called the police.[14][29]Police believe that Banks was held overnight in Cannan's flat and that he then persuaded her to phone in sick to her work, after pretending he was going to release her.[13]

Investigation

[edit]

150 officers from five police forces spent around 140,000 man-hours on the case. The police put out television appeals and searchedBristol Docksfor Banks's car. They considered that the telephone call to her work could mean she had left voluntarily and also considered whether her husband could be a suspect; he was quickly eliminated. The police had first planned to link the attempted abduction of Holman the previous night on aCrimewatchreconstruction in November, before Cannan's further crimes led to his arrest.[29]

Regent Street inLeamington Spa

Arrest of Cannan

[edit]

Cannan, then living at Foye House,Leigh Woods,Bristol,[33]was arrested on 29 October 1987 inLeamington Spafor an assault at knife-point on an assistant at a Regent Street dress shop.[29][33]Two passers-by had chased him and called the police. He evaded them briefly, but they found a knife and bag with blood on it. The police spotted him, saw his hand was bleeding, and arrested him. Near the shop, they found his blackBMWcar, which contained rope and an imitation handgun; they also found rope hidden in atoilet cisternin a garage.[29]

[edit]
AMini Clubmansimilar to Banks's

The police searched his car three weeks after Banks had disappeared, where they found atax discfor her car, inside a briefcase in the glove compartment.[14][29][34]Her orangeMini Clubmanwas found, painted blue, in the lock-up garage at his block of flats.[8][29][33] The police bailed Cannan from the station in Warwick, where he was being interviewed for the attempted robbery, whereupon police from Bristol promptly rearrested him regarding Banks' disappearance. News media immediately linked Banks' disappearance to that of Lamplugh, publishing Cannan's prior criminal record. The police charged him with assault on 2 November. He had no alibi for the night of Banks's disappearance, and he claimed he had bought Banks' Mini from a man at an auction.[29]

Witnesses

[edit]

A taxi driver came forward to say that a woman had called a taxi to Cannan's flat at about 2:00 pm on the day after Banks disappeared, but Cannan told him nobody had called one. At about 2:30 pm, he borrowed a vacuum cleaner from a neighbour and was seen cleaning his car. Cannan's movements could not be accounted for between 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm. Police brought in Holman, whom he had attempted to abduct, and she immediately identified him in theline up.[29]

Hoping that Banks was still alive, the police released Cannan's picture to the press.[29]A 69-year-old woman came forward to say she was in traffic near Cannan's flat on 9 October 1987 and saw smoke from a small fire in a copse. In the woods she heard a struggle, punching, a woman saying "No, no," and a man saying "I warned you what I would do". There was also a choking sound. She shouted towards the man with "dark, curly hair" who saw her, ran towards her, and lunged at her.[29][35][36]The police were sceptical but believed that it was possible she had heard and seen something in the woods.[29]

Forensics

[edit]

Police found a cleaning ticket for a shop in Sutton Coldfield and found that Cannan had dropped off a raincoat with red marks on it in late October. He claimed the marks were due to red mud from making love in a park; police found the marks were bloodstains, that could have been from the sameblood groupas Banks.[29]

The police built up a composite set of Banks'fingerprintsfrom her parents' house, her home and her work. The left thumbprint matched a document in Cannan's flat.[8]He acknowledged that the document came from his flat before he knew about the thumbprint.[29]He was charged with her kidnap and murder on 23 December 1987.[29][37]

View towards theDowsborough Hill Fortwhere Banks's body was found

Discovery of her body

[edit]

Banks' naked, moss-covered decomposed body was found in a stream on 3 April 1988, six months after her disappearance, at a site named "Dead Woman's Ditch,"which is part of an Iron Age camp atDowsboroughin theQuantock hills.[14][32][38]In the dark red mud, police also found gold jewellery and buttons from a dress Banks had bought.[29]According to pathologist Bernard Knight, she was killed by being hit repeatedly on the head with a rock.[39]

Trial

[edit]

"You are extremely attractive to some women. But under that there lies a most evil violence and horrible side to your character."

—Mr Justice Drake at sentencing, 1989.[13]

Cannan's trial began on 5 April 1989, when he was charged with the murder of Banks, and a further eight charges including "rape, buggery, kidnap, attempted abduction, indecent assault and abduction for sex."[40] The trial lasted three weeks. After ten hours of deliberation on 28 April 1989, the jury found Cannan guilty of all charges: the abduction and murder of Banks, the rape and buggery of a Reading woman, and the attempted kidnap at gunpoint of Holman.[13][28][29]He was jailed for life byMr Justice DrakeatExeter Crown Court.[13][34]Drake praised the investigation led by Detective Chief Inspector Brian Saunders.[13]

Suspected cases

[edit]

"He has gone down as an 'emerging' serial killer, but I have no doubt that he killed more than the three women whose deaths he is officially linked to".

—Christopher Berry-Dee, 2010[41]

Murder of Sandra Court

[edit]

In November 2001, police interviewed Cannan at a police station inYorkover the murder of 27-year-old insurance clerkSandra Courtin May 1986.[34][42]Court had been dropped off by a taxi driver inThroop, Dorset,near her sister's house after a night out, but her sister was not at home.[43][42]She was last seen walking barefoot, appearing slightly drunk, at around 2:45 am.[44]Court's body was found the next day in a water-filled ditch near theRiver Avonseveral miles away.[42][44][45]A pay-and-display ticket proved that Cannan was inBournemouththe day she was killed.[41]

Additionally, after a redFord Sierrathat Cannan had access to when Court was murdered was discovered at a north London scrapyard during the Lamplugh reinvestigations of the early-2000s, two hairs were found inside that matched theDNAof Court. Despite this, the DNA evidence was not strong enough to bring a prosecution against Cannan for her murder.[46]

Court had been killed bystrangulation.[28]Ten days after the discovery of Court's body, an anonymous letter was sent to police fromSouthampton.The letter said the death was "an accident" and that the killer was "truly sorry."[44][43]It also said that "the person concerned is deeply unhappy, hurt and in total shock" and that "the only reason the person has not come forward is the fact of being afraid that their explanation will not be believed."[43]Although an attempt had been made to disguise it, the handwriting style bore clear similarities to Cannan's.[47]

In 2007 crime writers Christopher Berry-Dee and Robin Odell, while writing a book on Cannan, handed police letters they had received from Cannan from prison, which gave them a means of comparison to the original letter.[47]The police found them so useful that they refused to return them to the authors when requested.[47]When interviewed, Cannan denied having ever been to Bournemouth on the day in question, but was shown to have lied because of the pay-and-display parking ticket.[48]

Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh

[edit]
Main article:Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh

"Cannan will reoffend. He should never be released. If you look at his profile, I have no doubt he will strike again. He has been released from prison before and committed crimes. He is a danger to the female population, particularly the blonde, twenty-something professionals like Suzy. Even if he wasn't released until he was 60 he would go on to abduct, rape and murder women."

—Detective Superintendent Jim Dickie, 2006[3]

Cannan was questioned by police regarding the disappearance of 25-year-oldSusannah "Suzy" Jane Lamplughin 1989 and 1990. He wrote a letter to the local paper,Sutton News,in August 1991 denying any part in her disappearance.[49]She was officially declared dead in absentia in July 1993. In December 2000, Cannan was arrested for Lamplugh's murder and questioned, but he was not charged.[50]In November 2002, detectives said publicly that they believed he had killed Lamplugh[51]and confirmed this in 2006 when arguing against any reduction in his tariff.[3]

In November 2002, Cannan complained via his solicitors about the police publicly naming him, saying he was "devastated and distressed". He again denied killing Lamplugh.[4]His solicitor complained about a lack ofpresumption of innocenceand that the prison service had withheld letters Cannan had tried to send to national newspapers regarding the allegations.[52]

In November 2002, Mark Dennis, a senior Treasury counsel, decided that there was insufficient evidence to charge Cannan over Ms Lamplugh's death.[3][53]Lamplugh's parents considered, but decided against, bringing a private prosecution and civil action against Cannan.[49]In July 1993,The Independentargued that the judge's sentencing statement, that Cannan should remain in prison for the rest of his natural life, removed any incentive for him to confess post-conviction.[54]

Evidence

[edit]

In November 2002, the police said that Cannan should have been a suspect much earlier in the investigation: they should have checked for recently released sex offenders, and they should have followed up information given by her parents about a man from Bristol.[53]Cannan was released from his prison hostel three days before Lamplugh disappeared.[55]His colleagues said he often went to wine bars in Fulham, where Lamplugh worked.[9]Lamplugh was supposed to meet a "Mr Kipper" when she disappeared, and Cannan was said to have used the name "Kipper" in prison.[38][3]In 2000, a new investigating team, led by Jim Dickie, computerised the card index of the case and found that several estate agents in Fulham had been visited by a Mr Kipper.[9]

Cannan may have had access to a black BMW, and a dark BMW was linked to Ms Lamplugh's kidnap;[51]Lamplugh was last seen getting into a BMW with a man holding champagne, which led an ex-girlfriend of Cannan, Daphne Sargent, to say, "As soon as I heard about Suzy, I knew it was John. It had all the hallmarks‍— right down to the champagne. "[56]Cannan resembles aphotofitof a man seen with Lamplugh the day she disappeared.[51]A girlfriend of Cannan said he had "a strong interest" in the case,[57]and police believe Lamplugh may have been in a relationship with Cannan.[9]

In 2007, a criminologist who had corresponded with Cannan revealed that police reinvestigations had discovered DNA evidence showing Lamplugh had been inside a car previously owned by Cannan.[58]The criminologist had pointed out to police that Cannan had access to a redFord Sierraat the time Lamplugh disappeared, something police had previously been unaware of.[58]Detectives subsequently attempted to find the car and discovered it in a scrap yard.[58]Although DNA tests indicated Lamplugh had been in the car, as well as Cannan, theCrown Prosecution Servicefelt there was insufficient evidence to prove that they had been in the vehicle at the same time, meaning charges were unable to be brought against Cannan for her murder.[58]

In April 2001, police said that the number plate SLP 386S had been placed on Banks' Mini by Cannan and that 386 might be a grid reference, as the site Banks' body was found is near Northing Line 386 and Norton Manor Barracks is near 3° 08' 06 ") West.[59]When the police interviewed Cannan about the significance of the number plate on the Mini, he acknowledged that the initials could stand for Suzy Lamplugh but said a "Bristol businessman" from whom he bought the car for £100 was responsible for the deaths of Lamplugh, Banks and another woman. Asked if that businessman was him, he replied "Yes," but then immediately recanted.[9]Cannan allegedly told an astrologer who visited him in jail that "a Bristol businessman" murdered Lamplugh and "I know who killed Shirley, Suzy, and another girl."[59]

Possible burial sites

[edit]

Cannan's ex-girlfriend Gilly Paige told police as early as 1990[60]that he had said Lamplugh's body was buried atNorton Barracks,although she later retracted the assertion.[3][55]In December 1999, after a letter was sent to Lamplugh's mother, Diana, claiming Suzy was buried there, a five-day search by more than 30 officers in and around the former site of the barracks, in December 2000, failed to find her body.[61]

In February 2001, theMetropolitan Policesearched the barracks site again.[62]In April 2001, the police realised that it was possible the barracks named were actuallyNorton ManorRoyal Marines barracks in Somerset, 8 miles from where Banks' body was found.[59]In April 2001, a cellmate of Cannan said that Lamplugh was buried under the patio of Cannan's mother's house inSutton Coldfield.[63]In October 2018, police officers returned to the house and dug up the garden.[64][65]After two weeks of searching the garden and an area under a garage, the Metropolitan Police confirmed that no evidence had been recovered.[66]

In August 2010, they searched a field three miles from the site in Worcestershire after a witness remembered seeing a mound of earth there in 1986 when he was a teenager. The police used ground-penetrating radar,[62]and trenches were dug by the side of the road betweenPershoreandDrakes Broughton,Worcestershire. At the same time, they also searched woodland in the Quantock Hills, where Shirley Banks' body was found.[26]

Prison life

[edit]

Cannan is aCategory Aoffender inHMP Full Sutton,York.[34]He still protests his innocence.[34]He has studied for anOpen Universitydegree while in prison.[49]His minimum tariff is 35 years, and he will be released only if theParole Boardrules that he is no longer a serious danger to the public.[67]Cannan has previously suggested that he may confess to the murder of Lamplugh only when his mother dies, to avoid causing her further grief.[68]An anonymous relative of Cannan's has also stated a belief that he will confess when his mother dies.[69]Cannan and his mother remained close after his conviction, and she continued to visit him every week.[69]

In August 2016, Cannan wrote a letter to prisoners'newspaperInside Timesaying that prisoners should be giventhe vote.[70]In August 2017, he sent another letter to the newspaper from prison, describing how he had written toSecretary of State for JusticeDavid Lidingtonasking him to stop the implementation of asmoking banin all English prisons.[71]He said that his request should be granted "to allow fresh ideas, arguments and evidence from staff and inmates to be placed before him for his consideration" and added "I believe a delay would permit a wiser and more thoughtful consideration of its rationale."[71]The smoking ban was implemented in 2018.[72]In June 2022, it was reported that Cannan was on his deathbed and receiving palliative care.[73]

In September 2023 Cannan faced aparolehearing after serving his minimum term of 33 years and 214 days. On 9 October 2023 the parole board refused to release him and refused to move him from his current Category A prison, to open conditions, which would have seen him downgraded to a Category D facility.[74]

[edit]

In July 1989, Cannan failed to persuade theHigh Courtto stop the BBC broadcasting aCrimewatch UKdocumentary on the investigation into the murder of Banks.[75]A case he took to the High Court in January 2003, claiming that his right to "free and unimpeded" legal advice was being restricted, failed.[76]In June 2009, he lodged another case at the High Court for alleged human rights breaches; he claimed that his ineligibility for a sexual offences treatment programme, due to his continued claim of innocence, was illegal.[34]He appealed for his 35-year minimum tariff to be reduced, butMr Justice Coulsonruled against this in June 2008 because his crimes involved "a significant degree of planning and premeditation" and there were "no real mitigating factors at all".[2][67]

References

[edit]
  1. ^abBerry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 1.
  2. ^abc"High Court setting of minimum terms for mandatory life sentences under the Criminal Justice Act 2003".Her Majesty's Court Services.2 June 2008. Archived fromthe originalon 28 July 2008.Retrieved11 February2011.
  3. ^abcdefTownsend, Mark (30 July 2006)."We're sure of Suzy Lamplugh's killer: keep him in jail, police urge".The Observer.Retrieved11 February2011.
  4. ^abHerbert, Ian (16 November 2002)."Lamplugh suspect says police acted wrongly".The Independent.Archived fromthe originalon 26 June 2009.Retrieved11 February2011.
  5. ^"Police name man who 'killed Suzy Lamplugh".The Daily Telegraph.6 November 2002. Archived fromthe originalon 29 October 2023.Retrieved29 October2023.
  6. ^Berry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 3.
  7. ^abcBerry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 4.
  8. ^abcde"Trial told of thumbprint link to bride".Glasgow Herald.7 April 1989.Retrieved11 February2011.
  9. ^abcdefghiWho Killed Suzy Lamplugh?Real Crime,ITV, 2001
  10. ^abBerry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 5.
  11. ^Berry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 21.
  12. ^Berry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 2.
  13. ^abcdefghi"Evil charmer sent to jail for rest of his life".Glasgow Herald.22 April 1989.Retrieved11 February2011.
  14. ^abcde"Casebook: Monster John Cannan murdered newly wed".Birmingham Mail.18 August 2010. Archived fromthe originalon 30 December 2010.Retrieved11 February2011.
  15. ^Berry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 9.
  16. ^Berry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 10.
  17. ^abcdReal Life Media Productions (2002).The Man Who Killed Suzy Lamplugh?(Television documentary).Channel 5.
  18. ^abReal Crime: Suzy Lamplugh.ITV(Television production). 12 September 2001.
  19. ^abBerry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. Introduction “We have sought to protect the feelings of the rape victims by not using their real names. Thus, ’Sharon Major,' ‘Jean Bradford,’ and ‘Donna Tucker’ are pseudonyms for the three women who experienced brutal attacks.”
  20. ^"Watch The Suzy Lamplugh Mystery".Now TV.Sky TV.Retrieved21 July2022.
  21. ^abCrimes that Shook Britain: Suzy Lamplugh.Crime+ Investigation(Television production). 25 October 2015.
  22. ^abBerry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 17-20.
  23. ^Berry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 37-41.
  24. ^abGoldby, Ben (15 August 2010)."Did Suzy Lamplugh have an affair with convicted killer John Cannan?".Sunday Mercury.Archived fromthe originalon 24 July 2011.Retrieved11 February2011.
  25. ^Berry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 93.
  26. ^abCowan, Mark (18 August 2010)."Crime File: Mystery of missing Suzy struck terror".Birmingham Mail.Archived fromthe originalon 23 July 2011.Retrieved11 February2011.
  27. ^"Tears of a witness".Evening Times.13 April 1989.Retrieved11 February2011.
  28. ^abcChurchill, Laura (3 July 2019)."Bristol killer John Cannan 'could have killed more'".BristolLive.Retrieved25 January2023.
  29. ^abcdefghijklmnopqrstuCrimewatchFile: The Shirley Banks Murder. 16 August 1989.BBC Television.Presented bySue Cook.
  30. ^abBerry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 124.
  31. ^"HTV West news report: John Cannan".www.youtube.com.1989.Retrieved22 February2023.
  32. ^ab"Body in river is identified as missing newly-wed".Glasgow Herald.5 April 1988.Retrieved11 February2011.
  33. ^abc"Bride charge man in court".Evening Times.2 November 1987.Retrieved11 February2011.
  34. ^abcdefMcCormick, K (5 June 2009)."Prison breaches human rights, says killer of Bristol newlywed".Evening Post.Bristol. Archived fromthe originalon 28 August 2009.Retrieved11 February2011.
  35. ^"Witness denies imagining woodland killing".Evening Times.14 April 1989.Retrieved11 February2011.
  36. ^"Elderly woman tells missing bride trial of a 'growling' man".Glasgow Herald.14 April 1989.Retrieved11 February2011.
  37. ^"Cannan is charged with murder of Shirley Banks".Glasgow Herald.24 December 1987.Retrieved11 February2011.
  38. ^abGoldby, Ben (26 October 2009)."Sutton Coldfield killer John Cannan linked to murder of Melanie Hall".Sunday Mercury.Archived fromthe originalon 24 July 2011.Retrieved11 February2011.
  39. ^"Inquest told of woman's injuries".Glasgow Herald.7 April 1988.Retrieved11 February2011.
  40. ^Berry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 259.
  41. ^abGoldby, Ben (15 August 2010)."Criminologist speaks out on details linking Sutton Coldfield sex monster to murder of Suzy Lamplugh".Sunday Mercury.Archived fromthe originalon 24 July 2011.Retrieved11 February2011.
  42. ^abc"Lamplugh suspect linked to killing".BBC News. 7 November 2002.Retrieved11 February2011.
  43. ^abcHoskins, John (10 April 2008)."Letter could bring justice 22 years later".Southern Daily Echo.Retrieved12 February2011.
  44. ^abcBerry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 64.
  45. ^"25 years on... Sandra Court's killer still free".Bournemouth Echo.May 2011.Retrieved15 August2022.
  46. ^Channel 5 (2020)Suzy Lamplugh: Last Seen Alive(Television documentary)
  47. ^abcBerry-Dee & Odell 2007,p. 65.
  48. ^Berry-Dee & Odell 2007,pp. 63–64.
  49. ^abcLaville, Sandra (6 November 2002)."I won't let him play with my mind, says mother".The Daily Telegraph.Archived fromthe originalon 29 June 2011.Retrieved11 February2011.
  50. ^Babbington, Andrew (4 December 2000)."Man arrested for Suzy Lamplugh killing".The Independent.Archived fromthe originalon 7 September 2009.Retrieved11 February2011.
  51. ^abcAlderson, Andrew (9 July 2006)."Lamplugh suspect linked to 'killer's car' 20 years on".The Sunday Telegraph.Archived fromthe originalon 21 May 2022.Retrieved11 February2011.
  52. ^Carter, Helen (16 November 2002)."Lamplugh suspect denies playing games with police".The Guardian.Retrieved12 February2011.
  53. ^abHopkins, Nick (26 November 2002)."Police spell out Lamplugh blunders".The Guardian.Retrieved11 February2011.
  54. ^Kirby, Terry (14 July 1993)."Killers tell all for fame or parole: Michael Sams's post-trial confession was to show he was 'not brutal', but motives of others vary, Terry Kirby reports".The Independent.Retrieved12 February2011.
  55. ^abBuncombe, Andrew (6 December 1999)."Police to look for Suzy Lamplugh on SAS site".The Independent.Retrieved11 February2011.
  56. ^Orr, Deborah (7 December 1999)."False hopes that prey on every woman's fear".The Independent.Retrieved12 February2011.
  57. ^Bennetto, Jason (12 May 2000)."Suzy Lamplugh 'seized by more than one person'".The Independent.Retrieved23 January2017.
  58. ^abcdBerry-Dee & Odell 2007,pp. 346–347.
  59. ^abcAlderson, Andrew (29 April 2001)."Police switch search to barracks in West Country".The Daily Telegraph.Retrieved12 February2011.
  60. ^Bennetto, Jason (24 December 1999)."Yard orders review to look for missed clues in Suzy Lamplugh inquiry".The Independent.Retrieved11 February2011.
  61. ^Babbington, Andrew (15 December 2000)."Police call off dig for Suzy Lamplugh's body".The Independent.Retrieved11 February2011.[dead link]
  62. ^abBaillie, Clare (12 August 2010)."Police set to call off search for Suzy Lamplugh's body".The Scotsman.Retrieved11 February2011.
  63. ^Newton, Michael (2009).The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes.Infobase Publishing. p. 213.ISBN978-0-8160-7818-9.
  64. ^Davies, Gareth (30 October 2018)."Suzy Lamplugh murder: Officers dig up suspect's old garden as convicted killer nears prison release date".The Daily Telegraph.Retrieved17 December2018.
  65. ^"Police dig up garden in Suzy Lamplugh murder investigation".Sky News.Retrieved17 December2018.
  66. ^Weaver, Matthew (12 November 2018)."Met finds no evidence in Suzy Lamplugh case after digging up garden".The Guardian.Retrieved12 May2023.
  67. ^ab"Sex killer fails in bid to cut 35-year term".Reading Post.9 June 2008.Retrieved11 February2011.
  68. ^Crimes that Shook Britain: Suzy Lamplugh.Television: Crime+ Investigations.
  69. ^ab"The Vanishing of Suzy Lamplugh: was her killer ever caught?".
  70. ^Inside Time."Inside-Time-August-2016.pdf"(PDF).p. 3.Retrieved9 July2022.
  71. ^abInside Time(29 August 2017)."Mailbites".Retrieved9 July2022.
  72. ^O’Moore, Éamonn (18 July 2018)."Successfully delivering smokefree prisons across England and Wales".GOV.UK.Retrieved9 July2022.
  73. ^"Suzy Lamplugh murder suspect John Cannan on deathbed as family urge 'tell us what you did'".Gloucestershire Live.13 June 2022.Retrieved6 November2022.
  74. ^Martin, Amy-Clare (9 October 2023)."Suzy Lamplugh murder suspect to stay behind bars because release would be 'unsafe'".The Independent.Retrieved22 November2023.
  75. ^"Killer fails to halt programme".Glasgow Herald.27 July 1989.Retrieved11 February2011.
  76. ^"Lamplugh suspect told policy 'not unlawful'".The Daily Telegraph.21 January 2003.Retrieved11 February2011.

Further reading

[edit]
  • Berry-Dee, Christopher; Odell, Robin (19 November 1992).Ladykiller: Inside the Mind of John Cannan.True Crime.ISBN978-1-85227-397-2.
  • Berry-Dee, Christopher; Odell, Robin (2007).Prime Suspect: The True Story of John Cannan, the Only Man Police Want to Investigate for the Murder of Suzy Lamplugh.John Blake.ISBN978-1-84454-420-2.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Cannan&oldid=1240991027"