London: Fears that a serial killer may be on the loose in Suffolk are growing after three prostitutes are found dead in the space of a few weeks and two more are missing. Below is a chronology of events:
Tuesday, December 12: Police announce that 24-year-old Alderton was asphyxiated. Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull tells a press conference "it appears she was strangled".
Initial tests on Adams and Nicol, whose deaths the police are linking, indicate they were not killed in the same way.
Monday, December 11: Suffolk Police say they are worried about the disappearance of another prostitute, 24-year-old Paula Clennell, who has not been seen since December 9.
Detectives also say that a fifth prostitute, Annette Nicholls, 29, had not been seen for at least a week.
Sunday, December 10: Alderton's body is discovered.
Friday, December 8: The naked body of Nicol is discovered in a stream near Copdock Mill, on the western edge of Ipswich, a couple of miles from where Adams was found.
Thursday, December 7: A motorist driving past woodland in Nacton, to the east of Ipswich at 10:30 p.m. sees what he believes is an abandoned mannequin about 30 yards from the road. He does not report what turns out to be Alderton's naked body to police.
Sunday, December 3: Prostitute Anneli Alderton last seen traveling on the 5:53 p.m. train from Harwich to Colchester.
Saturday, December 2: Adams' naked corpse is found in a brook at Thorpes Hill, Hintlesham, a few miles west of Ipswich.
Wednesday, November 15: Prostitute Gemma Adams, 25, reported missing to police after she fails to return home after spending the evening in Ipswich.
Monday, October 30: Sex worker Tania Nicol, 19, last seen leaving her home at Woolverstone Close, Ipswich at about 10:30 p.m.
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