Over the years Griffiths beat up at least one girlfriend. Although he was identified as ‘a highly dangerous man’ he was freed to live in the community. In 20 he was an outpatient at Newton Lodge Hospital in Wakefield and was given anti-depressants.Ĭrucially psychiatrists concluded he was ‘not suffering from mental illness’. He was a patient at Waddiloves Hospital in Bradford in 1987 and Rampton Special Hospital for two months in 1991. Griffiths had a long history of psychiatric treatment dating back to the age of 17 when he was locked up for slashing a shop security guard’s throat.īetween 19 he was treated by psychiatrists at three different hospitals. I don’t have much time for the human race.’ He made no attempt to flee, telling police ‘in here’ and ‘I’m Osama Bin Laden’, and commenting: ‘This is the end of the line for me.’Īt the police station Griffiths said: ‘I or part of me was responsible for the murder of Susan Rushworth, Shelley Armitage and Suzanne Blamires.’ Caretaker Peter Gee had raised the alarm and armed police raided Griffiths’s flat. The court heard he was taking body parts to dump them in the River Aire in nearby Shipley.īy the time the remains were found, Griffiths was in custody. Over the next 24 hours, Griffiths was recorded going in and out of the building carrying bags. Later he toasts his success by raising a bottle to the camera. He drags his lifeless victim inside his flat and returns to hold his weapon triumphantly at the CCTV camera and raise a finger to it. Griffiths brings a crossbow from his flat and fires a bolt into her head. On the video, Miss Blamires can be seen running out of Griffiths’s flat chased by the killer and knocked down. Griffiths indicated to detectives he may have killed six women and police will now step up attempts to identify any further victims.Ī university researcher studying for a doctorate in the history of homicide, he was arrested after the caretaker of the block of flats where he lived in Bradford studied CCTV footage and saw Griffiths murder his third victim Miss Blamires, 36. Griffiths told detectives he cooked flesh from the first two women and ate the third one ‘raw’.Īll three were chopped up in the bathroom, which Griffiths described as a ‘slaughterhouse'. The remains of his first known victim, Susan Rushworth, 43, have never been found. She had the words ‘my sex slave’ daubed in black spray paint on her back.ĭetectives believe she was killed with one of the two blood-stained crossbows found in Griffiths’s flat. Police recovered horrific video camera footage of her naked and apparently lifeless body trussed up in his flat. Miss Armitage was killed a month before Miss Blamires and two sections of her body were found in the river near Miss Blamires' remains.
#CROSSBOW CANNIBAL SERIAL#
Yesterday the PhD student, now 40, who executed his final victim knowingly in front of a CCTV camera, pleaded guilty to murdering three prostitutes, achieving his grotesque ambition to join the ranks of the country’s most notorious convicted serial killers as he pleaded guilty to killing Miss Armitage, Susan Rushworth and Suzanne Blamires.
He even told a probation officer he would kill when he reached his 30s - and he did. He idolised Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe and repeatedly admitted his horrific bloodlust to psychiatrists, yet he was not locked up to protect the public because he was seen as ‘bad’ rather than ‘mentally ill’. The 31-year-old and two other prostitutes were murdered by Griffiths, a known psychopath who was obsessed with becoming a serial killer. Guilty: Stephen Griffiths, the 'Crossbow Cannibal', has pleaded guilty to killing three prostitutesĪ father has spoken of his trauma at seeing 'Crossbow Cannibal' Stephen Griffiths on camera with a rucksack apparently containing his daughter's remains.ĭaryl Armitage revealed how he went 'numb' after police showed him pictures of the serial killer responsible for the murders of at least three women carrying the bag at a train station in West Yorkshire.Ī bag containing some of Shelley's bones was later found nearby.
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