Prime suspect in murder of Suzy Lamplugh dies in jail

John Cannan was jailed for a minimum of 35 years successful 1989 for the rape and execution of Bristol newlywed Shirley Banks, on with a further intersexual offence, an attempted kidnapping and 2 offences of abduction with intent to prosecute successful unlawful intersexual intercourse.

In 2002 helium was named arsenic the premier fishy successful the 1986 disappearance of property cause Suzy Lamplugh, which helium denied.

Miss Lamplugh was declared dead, presumed murdered, aft going missing astatine the property of 25, having near her westbound London bureau to conscionable a enigma lawsuit known lone arsenic Mr Kipper.

In 2018, constabulary carried retired excavations astatine Cannan’s mother’s erstwhile location successful Sutton Coldfield but thing was found.

A Prison Service spokesperson said: “HMP Full Sutton captive John Cannan died connected 6 November. As with each deaths successful custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman volition investigate.”

In October of past twelvemonth the parole committee recovered helium was excessively unsafe to release.

The sheet heard that Cannan inactive insisted that helium was guiltless and had not engaged successful immoderate accredited programmes to code the hazard of reoffending portion successful jail.

It was told that astatine the clip of his crimes, Cannan thought helium was entitled to enactment whenever helium wanted it, preferred it to see unit and wanted powerfulness and power implicit women.

He was a class A prisoner, those who airs the highest hazard to the public.

The sheet concluded: “After considering the circumstances of his offending, the advancement made portion successful custody and the grounds presented astatine the hearing, the sheet was not satisfied that merchandise astatine this constituent would beryllium harmless for the extortion of the public.

“Nor did the sheet urge to the Secretary of State that Mr Cannan should beryllium transferred to an unfastened prison.”