TOM STEPHENS, PIMP, EX COP AND DRUG FIXER FOR THE FIVE MURDERED IPSWICH PROSTITUTES WAS WATCHING OVER THEIR MOVEMENTS AS THEY WERE PICKED UP BY CLIENTS IN THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT OF IPSWICH . STEPHENS STRANGLED HIS 19 YEAR OLD LOVE, TANIA NICOL, THE FIRST GIRL TO DISAPPEAR ON 30 TH OCTOBER 2006 AND IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS WHILE SHE WAS OFFICIALLY A MISSING PERSON HE DEVELOPED A BIZARRE PLAN TO MURDER ANOTHER PROSTITUTE SO AS TO SHIFT THE BLAME TO ANOTHER MAN. THAT MAN WAS STEVE WRIGHT WHO WAS TARGETED AS A FALL GUY BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN THE LAST MAN TO MEET TANIA BEFORE HER KILLER.

HE WATCHED, WAITED AND PICKED UP HIS FRIEND GEMMA ADAMS MINUTES AFTER INNOCENT SEX PUNTER STEVE WRIGHT DROPPED HER BACK. HE TOOK HER TO GET A DRUG FIX, DROVE TO A REMOTE SPOT, ASKED HER TO GET NAKED FOR SEX AND THEN ASPHYXIATED HER IN AN ARM LOCK AND DUMPED HER BODY IN A SWOLLEN STREAM TOGETHER WITH TANIA’S BODY TO LINK THE MURDERS KNOWING THAT HER LAST PUNTER, STEVE WRIGHT, WOULD BE THE NUMBER ONE SUSPECT.

HE PRETENDED TO BE THE GIRLS’ PROTECTOR AS HE PICKED UP THE NEXT THREE VICTIMS AFTER WRIGHT DROPPED EACH ONE BACK, ONLY TO STRANGLE THEM AFTER THEY GOT THEIR DRUG FIX WHILE NAKED IN HIS CAR. HE DUMPED THEIR BODIES, SOME RITUALLY; BURNED THEIR CLOTHES AND THEN COURTED THE MEDIA. ON THE NIGHT HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE SUNDAY MIRROR WAS PUBLISHED HE PHONED THE POLICE, TOLD THEM HE MIGHT BE THE KILLER AND WAS ARRESTED NEXT MORNING.

AT THAT POINT THE POLICE BELIEVED HE WAS THE SUFFOLK STRANGLER AND HIS ARREST WAS IMMINENT. BUT STEPHENS HAD STOLEN A MARCH ON THE POLICE. HE TRIGGERED HIS PLAN INTO ACTION BY INFORMING THEM THE REG NUMBER OF WRIGHT’S CAR AND TOLD THEM THAT IN HIS CAPACITY AS THEIR PROTECTOR HE WAS SHADOWING THEM AND SAW THAT FORD MONDEO CAR PICK UP THE LAST TWO VICTIMS, ANNETTE AND PAULA.

WRIGHT WAS ARRESTED AT 5.0AM THE NEXT MORNING AND WAS PERSUADED TO RELUCTANTLY ADMIT THAT HE HAD SEX WITH THOSE TWO VICTIMS ON THE NIGHTS THEY WERE LAST SEEN. THE POLICE WERE ELATED AT HAVING WRUNG THE ADMISSION FROM HIM. THIS MEANT THAT WRIGHT HAD BEEN THE LAST MAN SEEN WITH ALL FIVE VICTIMS AND HIS DNA WAS LATER FOUND ON SOME OF THEM. IT WAS A COINCIDENCE THAT HE COULDN’T EXPLAIN TO A JURY. WRIGHT WAS CHARGED WITH MURDER AND THE REST IS HISTORY.

Author Noel O'Gara, the Irishman who wrote a book titled THE REAL YORKSHIRE RIPPER in 1982 after the conviction of Peter Sutcliffe. O'Gara employed the real killer in 1978 in Ireland and tipped off the UK police who later settled for the confessions to all the murders of copycat killer Peter Sutcliffe and refused to admit their mistake. It is this insight into police workings that has enabled him to see through the maze of conflicting claims in Ipswich and boldly state the facts that the evidence clearly demonstrates. All the evidence was present in court and newspaper reports but with Steve Wright in the frame nothing fitted or made sense except that Tom Stephens had set him up as a fall guy. You be the judge of the evidence.