Serial killer may have murdered prostitute six years ago

THE mother of a prostitute murdered six years ago yesterday spoke of her fears that her daughter could have been a victim of the Ipswich serial killer.

Vicky Glass was last seen leaving a pub in Middlesbrough town centre in September 2000.

Her naked and badly decomposed body was found dumped in a stream on moorland on the outskirts of Danby, North Yorkshire, the following November. Her clothing and possessions were never found.

The 21-year-old had turned to prostitution to feed her crippling addiction to heroin.

No one was ever charged with her murder and Cleveland Police detectives are probing links with the deaths in Ipswich.

Yesterday, Debbie Goodall spoke of how the killings in Ipswich have brought the memories of her daughter’s death flooding back.

“The news of the killings in Ipswich came as a shock and it made me feel sick to my stomach,” she said.

“Vicky’s death haunts me every day. As I watched I thought: ‘Is the same person who killed Vicky responsible? Could he have moved?’

“I know how the families of those girls are feeling now and my heart goes out to them. I’m thinking of them and I just hope they get strength to carry on.”

Ms Goodall also warned of the dangers of hard drugs and the desperate spiral some young women could find themselves in.

“These girls, like Vicky, were brought down by drugs. It decimates lives,” she said.

“We did everything we could and the parents and families of these girls will have done too. But Vicky was so trusting and she got in with the wrong crowd.

She continued: “I don’t think of Vicky as a prostitute — and the parents of the girls killed in Ipswich will be the same. They will think of them as daughters, sisters, nieces and granddaughters.

“Those memories will be precious and it is something to hold on to over the years.

“It gives you strength and for me it feeds the hope that I have one day to see Vicky’s killer in court.

“I want to see his face and to see justice be done. He has got away with this for six years but I hope that someone’s conscience will have been pricked by these terrible events in Ipswich and they will come forward.

“Even after all this time I believe there is someone out there who knows what happened and I say to them: ‘Please, please speak to the police.’”

A Cleveland Police spokesman said: “As a matter of course we always liaise with senior investigating officers from other forces dealing with crimes that may mirror outstanding offences in Cleveland.

“We will be speaking with Suffolk to see if there are any links with the death of Vicky Glass.”