Suffolk murders

[-Zorro-]

A senior policeman has reputedly been implicated as a client of at least 2 of the murdered prostitutes.

With the police saying that the murderer seems to have knowledge of DNA etc hence dumping them in water to destroy evidence, and leaving them naked.

What damage to the police force would it do if it were found that this senior police officer were the murderer?

Would there be pressure on the investigators to find another killer,a scapegoat?

[WaldoMcFroog]

Is this a serious question?

It would do very little damage to the police force, since these murders are clearly the actions of a lunatic and not, I suspect a policy of the Suffolk Police force.

In anycase, anyone with access to the thriller section at the local library could easily develop a reasonable understanding of the DNA tricks. Christ, there's some dreadful film with Sandra Bullock in it which is a virtual instruction manual for avoiding getting caught through DNA.

Rather strangely, I suspect the police would rather aprehend the real killer than look for a scapegoat, so if it were this chap, I think you'd find they'd arrest him pretty smartish.

However, using prostitues does not a murderer denote.

[-Zorro-]

Im just going off latest info leaked to the papers this morning that they are investigating a senior policeman.

Maybe Ive seen too many TV cop shows, where things like this happen.

But I got the impression yesterday from the investigation frontman on his TV interviews that they were getting close to something.

Lets hope

[noxlumos]

I can't see that being a copper automatically makes you incapable of being a lunatic, quite the reverse sometimes actually. What we do know is this is at least one individual, and if the Police see fit to investigate their own then they are doing their job properly as a force and actually I think were it to turn out to be a Police Officer and they caught and convicted him, then it would give suffolk Police huge kudos in the long term. I hope they wouldn't scapegoat an innocent man, and to be honest I doubt they would, but seems quite possible to me it might be a Police Officer as soon as the next man, it shouldn't rule you out from investigation surely should it?

[kwicky]

Two of these prostitutes died from compression to the neck. What is that? Obviously not strangulation. Is it a technique used by people who use martial arts. Might it be a lead?

[ummmm]

It'll be bloody scary if it was a police officer, we automatically trust them

[maxximus]

twisted as it may be the movie ' the bad lieutenant ' springs to mind. cheers!

[Peter Pedant]

i think it was a scabbt sun newspaper that carried the story that the west murders were hindered because west was running a bordello and the police were given freebies

but although convicted, west is dead now so cant tell us

[kev100]

The policeman implicated is far from a senior policeman, he was in fact just a special constable and that was in the 1990's he is now a supermarket worker.

Where do these stories come from?

[Paul22118]

Kev is correct. The senior policeman is in fact a special constable who for reasons not yet disclosed is not a special anymore.
It was also many years ago that he was involved in a very minor way with Suffolk Constabulary and to put this position in perspective (NO offence ever desired to sincere special constables) a special is about as far removed from mainsteam policing as one can get. Yes there are glowing examples of firt class work and loyalty to the public by many over the years but police officer as perceived by most he was not.
In respect to the damage done to a Force I would say if the Chief Constable proved to be the murderer he would still be convicted and rightly so. The damage done would be marginal because truth would have been found.
It does not matter who you are when vice is involved, remember the Director of Public Prosecutions and the kerb crawl. Remember Lord Wigg and the kerb crawl. The facts speak.

[kwicky]

If he was a senior mason he would get away with it. They are a law unto themselves. EVIL!!!!