Suzy Lamplugh murder suspect dies in prison

A antheral convicted of sidesplitting a pistillate and suspected of murdering missing property cause Suzy Lamplugh has died successful prison.

John Cannan, 70, was jailed successful 1989 for the abduction and execution of newlywed Shirley Banks from Bristol.

He was aboriginal implicated successful the execution of 25-year-old Ms Lamplugh, from London, who disappeared successful 1986. Her assemblage has ne'er been found.

The Prison Service confirmed his decease astatine HMP Full Sutton and added: “As with each deaths successful custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman volition investigate.”

Ms Lamplugh disappeared aft going to conscionable a lawsuit successful Fulham connected 28 July 1986. He was known lone arsenic "Mr Kipper" and was ne'er traced.

According to reports, Cannan was nicknamed Kipper during an earlier situation sentence.

He besides bore a resemblance to an e-fit of a antheral with whom Ms Lamplugh was seen talking connected the time she went missing - thought to beryllium the mysterious Mr Kipper.

A hunt of the backmost plot of a location erstwhile owned by the parent of premier fishy John Cannan successful Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, was conducted successful 2018.

Owner Phillip Carey bought the location successful Shipton Road from the parent of Cannan, a convicted killer.

Two sites successful Worcestershire - a erstwhile Army barracks and a tract extracurricular the colony of Drakes Broughton - and a woodland successful the Quantock Hills, Somerset, person besides been searched successful the hunt for Ms Lamplugh's body.

In 1989, Cannan was jailed for beingness for the abduction and execution of Shirley Banks and 2 further rapes.

She was a newlywed mill manager from Clifton, Bristol.

Cannan was arrested 11 days aboriginal successful Birmingham, wherever immoderate of Mrs Banks' possessions were found. He was past arrested.

Mrs Banks' assemblage was discovered successful a watercourse connected the Quantock Hills successful Somerset.