By Paul Stokes and Richard Edwards
Published: 2:06PM BST 26 May 2010
Police sources have disclosed that a 40-year-old local man, who has not been named, is being interviewed by detectives about three women who have gone missing in the past year.
Susan Rushworth, 43, disappeared last June, while Shelley Armitage, 31, and Suzanne Blamires, 36, both went missing in the past month. All three women worked regularly in Bradford’s red light district.
On Monday, the 40-year-old man was arrested in connection to the case of Miss Blamires.
Yesterday, a member of the public discovered human body parts in the River Aire, in nearby Shipley. They are believed to be a significant discovery but officers are yet to identify the victim.
West Yorkshire police initially denied any links had been made but sources said that the man is now being quizzed over his alleged involvement in the disappearance of all three women.
Scenes of crime officers and police divers continue to search the stretch of river where the body parts were found.
Miss Blamires went missing on Friday. She was friends with, and lived only a few streets away from Miss Armitage in the Allerton district of Bradford.
Separate searches for both missing women had been ongoing throughout the Bradford district.
A sniffer dog and members of the underwater search unit went into a drainage culvert at the end of a cobbled side street off Thornton Road, close to the city centre. Other members of the team searched Bradford Beck on the opposite side of Thornton Road, close to Bradford College, while another police dog investigated undergrowth.
Forensic officers in white suits and masks were seen checking black bin bags taken from rubbish skips behind halls of residence at Laistridge Lane.
Police chiefs are expected to make a statement on the case this afternoon.
From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7767580/Man-questioned-over-murder-of-three-prostitutes-in-Bradford.html
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