Yes, there's a 殺し屋 out there but I need my 直す／買収する，八百長をする

By PAUL HARRIS

Last updated at 23:00 11 December 2006


Her 指名する was Katie and she was touting for 商売／仕事. The rain was drenching the dismal pavements of the town's red-light 地区 and the 勝利，勝つd was starting to blow her hair sideways.

This was the same 位置／汚点／見つけ出す where Gemma Adams and Tania Nicol used to work as 売春婦s before they were 殺人d and 捨てるd in a stream.

Another 売春婦's 団体／死体 had been discovered nearby. Police 問題／発行するd the strongest possible 警告 for 孤独な women to keep off the streets.

? Middle class life to ヘロイン hell

So you might have thought that only the 無謀な or the desperate might have 投機・賭けるd out to earn a living in the sextrade 地区. But Katie - and at least some of her 副／悪徳行為-girl companions - were 準備するing yesterday to go 支援する to work in Ipswich, if not やめる 商売／仕事 as usual.

Katie, 23, 辞退するd a police patrol's 申し込む／申し出 to take her home for her own safety after the third 団体／死体 was discovered on Sunday. Her 事柄-of-fact トン about the dangers she now 直面するs is breathtaking.

"Of course it has made me worried," she says. "It is dangerous out on the streets. But you just have to do your best to look after yourself. I just have to 信用 my instincts. When a man stops for me, I'm in his 直面する asking who he is and what he is doing.

"I have been attacked a few times and I was 強姦d about 18 months ago. It's just the 危険s you take. I don't carry a knife with me for 保護. I might be 逮捕（する）d if I did and there's always the danger that a punter could 得る，とらえる it and を刺す you. A 強姦 alarm is not a lot of use. A lot of the places you go with punters, there is nobody around so it wouldn't be heard anyway."

Like other 売春婦s, she says she needs the money t o 財政／金融 a ヘロイン habit and 支払う／賃金 her rent.

Whether that puts her in the 無謀な or desperate 部類, when police and 麻薬 organisations are 押し寄せる／沼地ing the area with help, is debatable. But she is not alone.

Lou, a 28-year-old blonde with three children in care, 認める she was 脅すd. Yet she （人命などを）奪う，主張するd she would have to continue working to raise cash for her ヘロイン habit, which costs up to £150 a day. She worked "as normal" on Sunday night and 井戸／弁護士席 into the 早期に hours yesterday.

"I have no choice because I need the cash," she said. "If I wasn't working here I would be 万引, then I would land up in 刑務所，拘置所. Of course, I'm 脅すd. It is a difficult 状況／情勢. You have to try and make a snap judgment about men before you get in a car with them."

より小数の than a dozen streets （不足などを）補う the 売春婦s' 領土, の近くに to Ipswich Town football stadium. Police 見積（る） there are between 40 and 50 women 定期的に working the area.

The 恐れる of attack has undoubtedly 減ずるd numbers on the streets. But some are 用意が出来ている to carry on. One even 正当化するd it by 説 she was "not so pretty" as the 殺人d girls, and therefore might not be 的d.

Others, however, are terrified. Cath, 27 and a 売春婦 for the last six months, told me she would not be going out to work.

"Until this guy is caught, it's just not 価値（がある） it," she said. "I need the money but I'm 脅すd stiff. You can take all the 警戒s you like, and you can get your friends to look out for you, but you can still 結局最後にはーなる dead when there's someone like this around.

"What if it's another Yorkshire Ripper, getting away with it for years? Your friends can't watch out for you every second of the night."

One of the dangers the girls 直面する is that most have to be driven to a 静かな 場所 for sex in the punter's car unless they have 接近 to 前提s 地元で.

A favourite 位置／汚点／見つけ出す is an 産業の est ate in Hadleigh Road, Ipswich, いっそう少なく than a mile from the red-light area.

That area is on the way to Hintlesham and Copdock, where two 団体／死体s were 設立する in a stream.The 位置／汚点／見つけ出す 近づく Nacton, where the third 殺人 犠牲者 was discovered naked on Sunday afternoon, is の近くに to a picnic area which is renowned for "dogging".

関係者s 成し遂げる sex 行為／法令／行動するs in 前線 of a 私的な audience or watch others doing so.

Police ビデオ 監視 cars were operating all over Ipswich yesterday and extra patrols were 草案d in to the red-light 地区. The result was not just より小数の 売春婦s on the streets, but より小数の （弁護士の）依頼人s.

Assistant 長，指導者 Constable Jacqui 元気づける 宣言するd a 合法的な 恩赦，大赦 for 売春婦s, 含むing any who 設立する themselves compelled to work, in the hope that they would then talk 自由に to 探偵，刑事s 追跡（する）ing the 殺し屋.

But she 追加するd: "My message to you is simple -stay off the streets. If you are out alone at night you are putting yourself in danger."

It remains to be seen if the 警告 will be 注意するd for long.

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