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Cameron has also called for tougher action on kerb-crawling and drug abuse. He said the decriminalisation of offences related to prostitution should be "looked at again", but he also added that: "I don't think we should jump to conclusions on this – there are all sorts of problems that decriminalisation would bring." Later, aides close to Cameron strongly insisted he was concerned with addressing the social problems surrounding it such as encouraging agencies to work together to help women off the streets or to combat drug addiction. Government reaction ĭavid Cameron, the then new Conservative prime minister, said the murders were a "terrible shock". At the time of the murders, police had no evidence for an Anti-Social Behaviour Order. The housing association shared the police's concerns and fitted a better CCTV system in anticipation of an incident. The police contacted the housing association which owns the flat in which Griffiths lived after he was observed reading books on dismemberment. Police had been watching Griffiths for two years before he killed his victims and had already seized hunting weapons. In 2009, Griffiths was admitted to the University of Bradford to write a PhD in homicide studies. In 1991, he was diagnosed as a " schizoid psychopath" and the following year received a two-year prison sentence for holding a knife to the throat of a girl.

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While in custody, he stated that he saw himself becoming a murderer, and psychiatrists warned that he fantasised about becoming a serial killer.

Griffiths' criminal history included a three-year sentence, when aged 17, for an unprovoked knife attack on a supermarket manager. As of 2011, he had been on a two-month hunger strike, during which time he avoided contact with other people. While in prison, Griffiths has attempted suicide on several occasions. At Leeds Crown Court the same day, Mr Justice Openshaw sentenced Griffiths to life imprisonment with a whole life order, meaning he will not become eligible for parole and is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison. On 21 December 2010, Griffiths was convicted of all three murders after pleading guilty.

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He made a second appearance at crown court on 7 June via a video link from Wakefield Prison where a trial date of 16 November 2010 was set. Īt a crown court appearance that afternoon he was remanded in custody until his next court appearance. Stephen Shaun Griffiths (born 24 December 1969 in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire) was arrested and in May 2010 he appeared in the magistrates' court giving his name as the Crossbow Cannibal.

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Griffiths said when he was arrested: I'm Osama bin Laden, and told officers: I've killed a lot more than Suzanne Blamires - I've killed loads. Smith said 81 different pieces of Blamires were found in or by the River Aire in Shipley, while a broken knife and a crossbow bolt were embedded in her severed head. He sat motionless in the dock as the court heard further gruesome details. That's part of the magic, he told police. He also claimed to have eaten raw parts of flesh of Blamires. It was just a slaughterhouse in the bathtub, Griffiths told police officers. The former public schoolboy, who was obsessed with serial killers, admitted to killing Blamires in the flat and dismembering her by hand, while power tools had been used on the other victims. The court was told the woman was shot with a crossbow before Griffiths gestured to the CCTV camera. She was later seen being dragged on the floor by her leg by Griffiths, who had something in his hand.

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Prosecutor Robert Smith told Leeds Crown Court that a caretaker whose job it was to review closed circuit TV filmed at the apartment block where Griffiths lived, saw Blamires running out of Griffiths' home with her killer in pursuit in May this year. Criminology student Stephen Griffiths, 40, admitted killing Suzanne Blamires, 36, Shelley Armitage, 31 and Susan Rushworth, 43, the Press Association reported. A man who dubbed himself the "crossbow cannibal" pleaded guilty on Tuesday to murdering three women who worked as prostitutes in northern England.