THE brutal deaths of two Glasgow prostitutes might have been carried
out by a serial killer who is stalking vice girls across Britain.
Startling similarities exist between the murders of Karen McGregor and
Diane McInally and two other recent unsolved killings of prostitutes in
Norwich and Stroud in Gloucestershire.
There is also a belief that the killer might have claimed a fifth
victim because police in Ipswich are currently searching for a woman,
also a known prostitute, who went missing from a red light area nearly
three weeks ago.
Detectives involved in investigating the four prostitutes' deaths have
already liaised with their colleagues in the respective police forces to
share information.
It is understood that police have not ruled out the possibility that
at least three of the murders, including one in Glasgow, could have been
the work of one killer.
A senior police officer in Strathclyde confirmed yesterday that
members of the murder squad team at Dursley, Gloucestershire, had
travelled to Glasgow two weeks ago to obtain information surrounding the
deaths of the two prostitutes.
He said: ''Officers from Gloucestershire CID have recently been
liaising with detectives in Glasgow surrounding the killings of Karen
McGregor and Diane McInally and the murder in Stroud.''
Police in Glasgow have already computer-linked the murder of
26-year-old Karen McGregor, whose naked body was found dumped in bushes
at car park seven at the Scottish Exhibition Centre on April 19, this
year, and Diane McInally, whose body was found in October 1991.
Striking similarities exist between their deaths. Both women were
prostitutes and had drug problems. They also worked in the known vice
triangle around Anderston bus station in Glasgow.
Their battered bodies were also discovered in lonely spots,
23-year-old Diane was found in a wood behind the Burrell Gallery in
Pollok Park, Glasgow, by a man walking his dog.
But it is the more recent Glasgow death, that of mother-of-two Karen
McGregor, which fits the pattern of the killings south of the Border.
She was strangled and her clothing removed.
The body of prostitute Natalie Pearman, 16, discovered on Friday,
November 20, last year, at an isolated beauty spot outside Norwich, was
also only partly clothed. She had also been strangled.
The circumstances surrounding the death of Carol Clark, 32, who went
missing from Bristol on Saturday, March 27, only to be found dumped
outside the city at Sharpness Docks, are identical. She had been
strangled and left partly dressed.
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