Police dig near home of double killer cab driver
DETECTIVES were last night digging up gardens near a former home of suspected serial killer Christopher Halliwell.
The taxi driver is serving life in jail life for the murders of Becky Godden, 20, in 2003 and Sian O’Callaghan, 22, in 2011. But police fear the 52-year-old could have claimed even more victims, possibly as many six.
After his trial it emerged that the former butcher had once asked a fellow prisoner how many women a person had to murder to become a serial killer.
Last night Wiltshire Police were understood to be excavating two gardens near a former home in Swindon after receiving ‘new information’.
There is circumstantial evidence linking Halliwell to at least two notorious unsolved killings – those of sex worker Sally Ann John in 1995 and mother-of-four Linda Razzell in 2002. Miss John, 23, was working as a prostitute in Swindon when she went missing.
Detectives also found that the killer knew Mrs Razzell, 41, a college worker who vanished in the town. Her husband was convicted of killing her but has always protested his innocence.
A Wiltshire Police spokesman said: ‘Specialist officers are currently carrying out excavation work within the gardens of two properties within Broad Street as part of an ongoing investigation being carried out by the Brunel major crime investigation team. This relates to intelligence that the force has received. We are unable to comment further at this time.’
In 2012 Halliwell was convicted of killing Miss O’Callaghan after abducting her as she left a nightclub. Last year he was handed a full-life jail term at Bristol Crown Court for fatally stabbing and strangling Miss Godden, 20.
During the Godden trial the detective leading the investigation, Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, told a jury that Halliwell had led him to believe he had killed more people.