BMW driver sought in murder hunt

12 April 2012

The detective heading the hunt for the serial killer thought to be targeting prostitutes in Ipswich said officers were "eager" to speak to the driver of a blue BMW.

One of the dead women, Anneli Alderton, is reported to have climbed into a blue BMW in Ipswich last week.

The information was passed to police after another Ipswich prostitute reported the sighting to journalists.

Detective Chief Supt Stewart Gull was asked on Thursday whether officers were "eager to speak" to the driver of that car. He replied: "We are still trying to piece together Anneli's last movements."

Mr Gull added: "We have received a significant volume of calls from across Suffolk and further afield and a lot of interesting information has come in.

"That is just one aspect we are looking at."

Mr Gull said detectives were not specifically linking the deaths of the five women to any previous killings or disappearances of prostitutes in East Anglia or in other parts of the UK.

"We are clearly aware of a number of other crimes," he said.

"We will look at any similarities but at the moment our focus is here in Suffolk and on the crimes we are currently dealing with.

"We are not at this stage linking these murders to anything else."

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