The killer celebrated the murder of Suzanne Blamires by gesturing to a CCTV camera No remorse: Griffiths pictured in police custody. He casually retrieves his crossbow and fires a bolt from point-blank range into her body, then her head. In shots which we have decided not to publish, Miss Blamires is then dragged back down the corridor towards Griffiths’s flat. She is knocked to the floor and her body goes limp. Minutes later a terrified Miss Blamires is shown running for her life along the corridor, chased by the killer, now wearing black gloves and with his teeth bared like a snarling animal. They are seen chatting as they walk along the corridor and she enters his flat willingly. Security camera number 14 at Holmfield Court shows Griffiths arriving at his flat with Miss Blamires in the early hours of May 22. The shocking CCTV footage would have been shown at a trial, but because Griffiths admitted the murder charges they were never screened in court. Police hoped to question him further about other possible murders, but are unlikely to make progress while he continues his apparent suicide bid. He has lost several stone and is said to be refusing even liquids. Griffiths is currently on a hunger strike. He chopped up their bodies in his ‘slaughterhouse’ bathroom and ate sections of their flesh before disposing of the remaining body parts.Įxecuted on camera: Bradford prostitute Suzanne Blamires was Stephen Griffiths's final victim Last week at Leeds Crown Court, 40-year-old Griffiths was jailed for the rest of his life after admitting the murders of Miss Blamires and two other prostitutes, Susan Rushworth, 43, and Shelley Armitage, 31. When marksmen burst in, he called out: ‘I’m in here. Griffiths, who was studying for a doctorate in the history of homicide, had remained at his flat and was waiting for officers to come and arrest him. Police were called in after Peter Gee, caretaker of Holmfield Court, a housing association block of flats in Bradford, carried out his usual Monday task of checking the weekend’s CCTV video last May. Griffiths also makes an obscene one-fingered gesture and, as he walks out of the building to search for another victim, holds up a bottle of Sprite as if to toast his success. Moments later, accepting that the murder has been caught on film, he coolly strolls up to the camera and brandishes his crossbow in an act of bravado. The camera in the corridor outside the serial killer’s flat clearly shows the PhD student’s face contorted with rage before he executes prostitute Suzanne Blamires, 36, with a crossbow bolt and a knife to the head. Never before has such explicit video footage of a murderer in action been revealed. They are extraordinary pictures of a psychopath trapping and killing his prey.īut it is the chilling images of ‘Crossbow Cannibal’ Stephen Griffiths brazenly celebrating his final murder in front of a CCTV camera that will ensure his place in the criminal history books. This is the full story of the man known as the 'Crossbow Cannibal', whose chillingly evil actions brought terror to the streets of Bradford.One finger to the world: A dead girl in his flat, 'Crossbow Cannibal' Stephen Griffiths poses for the camera, knowing police are on their way Having admitted to murdering Suzanne Blamires, 36, Shelley Armitage, 31, and 43-year-old Susan Rushworth, who worked as prostitutes in the Bradford area, Griffiths, who called himself the Crossbow Cannibal was jailed for life for their "wicked and monstrous" murders. Griffiths possessed disturbing video recordings and images in his flat and police found blood from both Ms Armitage and Ms Rushworth linking them to Griffiths. Once arrested Griffiths told Police: "I've killed a lot more than Suzanne Blamires - I've killed loads." Adding gruesomely that he had "eaten some of her". ![]() 40-year-old PhD student Stephen Griffiths was arrested by West Yorkshire Police after CCTV footage of him attacking Ms Blamires at his block of flats was discovered by a caretaker at the complex. Police had been investigating the disappearance of Shelley Armitage and Susan Rushworth who had gone missing in 2009 but the remains belonged to Suzanne Blamires and were to unravel a gruesome and horrifying chain of events. A major search and recovery operation began when a young woman's remains were recovered in the River Aire in May 2010.
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