Sunday People

IS STILL INFLICTING PAIN FROM BEHIND BARS TELL US WHERE MUM’S BODY IS BURIED

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had eaten parts of his victims, declaring he “didn’t have much time for the human race”.

Griffiths, then 40, said he had killed “loads of women” and even compared himself to Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe who murdered 13.

Body parts found in the River Aire, in Shipley, near Bradford, were identified as Suzanne’s.

Other human tissue found in the same river was later establishe­d as belonging to Shelley.

But no remains of Susan have ever been found.

Her distraught daughter Kirsty has revealed she sent a letter to the killer asking where her mum was so she could have a proper funeral – but never got a reply.

In a cruel twist, she found herself sucked into the world of prostituti­on and drugs, haunted by loss of her mother.

Several years after the murder Kirsty, now 30, described herself as Griffiths’ “fourth victim” as she worked the same street corners as her mum to feed her habit.

But now her protective big brother James says she had thankfully turned her life around and is doing well. He said: “It’s all sorted. She’s all right. She’s with us.”

James said his gran Christine couldn’t face talking about the loss of her daughter again.

But she also has previously pleaded with Griffiths to tell her what he did with Susan’s body.

She said: “She is with me every day in my heart but I will not have peace until I can bury Susan and visit her grave.

“I just wish Griffiths would tell me or the police where she is. I don’t know why he won’t.

“Perhaps he feels that he retains some power over us. And he does because I want to go and put flowers on Susan’s resting place and only he can grant me that wish.”

Christine said her daughter, a former grammar school pupil, slid into the seedy world of drugs and vice after a brain haemorrhag­e that brought on epilepsy.

“Susan was trying to turn her life around and was doing really well and was getting off the drugs and staying with me.

“The day she went missing she said she was going out to get some medicine and would be back soon, but she never came home.”

In December 2010, Griffiths, who gave his name at his first hearing as “The Crossbow Cannibal”, pleaded guilty to all three murders.

Judge Mr Justice Openshaw told the court: “The circumstan­ces of these murders are so wicked and monstrous they leave me in no doubt the defendant should be kept in prison for the rest of his life.”

He is currently in Long Lartin

Prison, Worcesters­hire, which houses some of the country’s most dangerous killers and sex offenders.

But his crimes have even sickened some of his inmates, leaving him always looking over his shoulder.

Last year he reportedly cheated death after being stabbed in the chest behind bars.

He was left with a “large puncture wound” after a fellow prisoner attacked him with a wooden spear.

Griffiths, now 50, will see out the rest of days behind bars and, plagued by demons, has attempted suicide several times.

Meanwhile, the Rushworths still pray that he will ease his conscience by telling them where their beloved Susan is.

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