(14 Dec 2006) SHOTLIST
near Ipswich
1. Various of River Orwell, where clothes were found
2. Various of River Orwell near area where last two bodies were found
Levington, Suffolk, where last two bodies where found
3. Various of police
4. Wide of field
5. Various of forensics officer walking in field
6. Policeman standing by police cordon
7. Wide of forensics officer walking in field
8. Various of newspaper headlines
Martlesham, Suffolk
9. Media gathered outside police headquarter
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull, investigating officer:
"We've taken a report on a number of items of clothing across the town and beyond. It's been ceased, secured, assessed, and once we know what the girls were wearing, it may then be relevant."
11. Media, pan to exterior of police station
STORYLINE:
Police investigating a series of murders around the provincial English town of Ipswich are investigating items of clothing found in the River Orwell, that flows below Ipswich.
The slaying of five prostitutes -whose bodies were found in just 10 days - has cast a shadow over the town, as police hunt for a suspected serial killer.
Police are working their way through a list of potential suspects and investigating more than 2-thousand calls made to a police hotline.
In the latest development police are investigating the items of clothing found in the River Orwell.
"We've taken a report on a number of items of clothing across the town and beyond," investigating officer Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull told British television. "It's been ceased, secured, assessed, and once we know what the girls were wearing, it may then be relevant."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday extended condolences to the victims' families in Parliament during an address in the House of Commons that prompted a debate over changing policies on prostitution.
The victims include a trainee beautician, a mother of three daughters and an insurance worker. Some fell into prostitution to feed drug habits.
Two bodies have yet to be identified but one was thought to be that of 24-year-old Paula Clennell, who was interviewed on television last week saying she was scared but determined to get back on the street because she needed money for heroin. Days later she vanished.
Another was thought to be that of Annette Nicholls, another prostitute who was recently reported missing, according to Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull.
One of the bodies was removed from the scene on Wednesday, but another one was left for more forensics, Gull said. An autopsy and official identification was expected on Thursday.
Police were investigating the deaths of three other women, all of whom had worked in Ipswich, a small city about 70 miles (110 kilometres) northeast of London.
All five corpses were found within a few miles (kilometres) of each other.
So far, police have only been able to determine the cause of death in one of the five cases. Anneli Alderton, a 24-year-old whose body was discovered in a wooded area on Sunday, had been strangled, Gull said.
The cause of death of 25-year-old Gemma Adams and 19-year-old Tania Nicol is still unclear.
Forensics on their bodies have been hampered because both corpses were found in water.

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