If you don’t find Suzy this time, please give up
Lamplugh brother’s plea to cops
Derek Alexander The brother of murdered estate agent Suzy Lamplugh has begged detectives to stop looking for her if their latest search for her body draws a blank.
Aberdeen- based Richard Lamplugh said a forensic team’s dig at a house linked to prime suspect John Cannan had raised his family’s hopes of giving Suzy a proper burial.
But the 58-yearold told how he is struggling to cope with the emotional rollercoaster each time pol ice say they have a new lead on the investigation.
Richard said he and his other sisters Tamsin and Lizzie have been anx ious for a breakthrough.
But he added: “I can’t speak for my sisters, but as far as I’m concerned, if they don’t find a body this time, I would rather they just stopped looking.
“It’s so hard going through it all again and again.”
Suzy went missing in July 1986 after leaving her off ice for an appointment with a client at a house in London’s Fulham.
Her car was discovered nearby with its keys still in the ignition and her purse was also inside the vehicle.
She was booked to meet “Mr Kipper” – an alias used by convicted rapist and murderer Cannan. She was declared dead, presumed murdered in 1994. A specialist team has been digging at a property once owned by Cannan’s mum in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.
Cannan is serving three life sentences with a recommendation survival, an extraordinary lioness trying to save her family, feuding wolves and a tigress defending her four new cubs.
Bosses hope the show will match the huge success of last year’s Blue Planet II. never to be released for the murder of Shirley Banks in Bristol in October 1987, the attempted kidnapping of Julia Holman and the rape of a woman in Reading in 1986.
In 2002, the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to charge Cannan over Suzy’s death and triggered outrage among her family, including mum Diana and dad Paul, who were always convinced of his guilt.
Diana died in 2011 and Paul passed away in June, aged 87.
But fish farm worker Richard said: “They would have liked to see a conviction but a part of me was relieved there was no trial.
“You get to a stage where you don’t want a wound reopened.”