VIDEO:Crossbow Cannibal may have killed 14‎.

Posted on Dec 26 2010 - 11:02am by News Desk
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STBartamaha (UK):CROSSBOW Cannibal Stephen Griffiths’ grim toll of murder victims may be as high as 14, police fear.

Griffiths admitted butchering three Bradford prostitutes.

But he told a lover he would not stop until he killed one more than Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe’s 13.

There could be 11 more victims of Griffiths still to be found.

Cops are now re-examining unsolved murders of several women.

Griffiths’ former girlfriend Amanda Judson, 45, told officers that he planned from his teenage years to top evil Sutcliffe’s total.

West Yorkshire officers have also contacted two neighbouring forces and Scotland Yard. So far they are checking five other cases for links to Griffiths:

Gemma Simpson, 23, not a hooker, went missing in May 2000. Dawn Shields, 19, was found strangled in the Peak District after vanishing from Sheffield’s red light district in 1994.

Michaela Hague, 25, was picked up in the same city on Bonfire Night 2001.

She was stabbed 19 times. Middlesbrough prostitute Vicky Glass, 21, was found dead on moorland near Danby, North Yorks, in 2000.

Management consultant Diana Maw, 35, was shot with a crossbow outside her home in Ealing, West London in 1988.

Lorry driver Sutcliffe believed he was on a “mission from God” to kill prostitutes. He got his Ripper nickname because he mutilated women with a hammer, a screwdriver and a knife.

Sutcliffe’s murder spree ran from 1975 to 1981. He is now 64 and detained in Broadmoor high-security hospital.

Meanwhile the father of Griffiths’ victim Shelley Armitage said: “They should bring back hanging for people like him.”

Daryl Armitage added: “If I could get to him, I’d kill him with my bare hands. As simple as that. I wouldn’t think twice. He has destroyed our lives.”

Tory MP Philip Davies, whose Shipley constituency was where Griffiths dumped body parts, called for a review of how the law deals with personality disorders.

Griffiths had form for violence. And psychiatrists said he was a sadistic psychopath with a fascination for murder – but did not have a treatable mental illness.

Mr Davies said: “It seems extraordinary that someone with his profile was considered safe to be allowed in the community. This issue needs looking at.”

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Mass killer ... Peter Sutcliffe

Mass killer … Peter Sutcliffe
Three known victims of Stephen Griffiths ... from left, Susan Rushworth, Suzanne Blamires and Shelley Armitage

Three known victims of Stephen Griffiths … from left, Susan Rushworth, Suzanne Blamires and Shelley Armitage
Riddle of seven victims ... from top left, Michaela Hague, Dawn Shields, Gemma Simpson, Rebecca Hall, Yvonne Fitt, Vicky Glass, Diana Maw

Riddle of seven victims … top row: Michaela Hague, Dawn Shields, Gemma
Simpson, Rebecca Hall. Bottom row: Yvonne Fitt, Vicky Glass, Diana Maw

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Source:- THE SUN.