Not quite a witness but...
First post, be gentle with me...

My parents live in Ipswich which until quite recently, I did too. Now I’m sure most of you must have heard and seen about the trial of Steve "the Suffolk strangler" Wright who currently is in court for the alleged murder of 5 prostitutes.

Well he lived in a flat in the Red Light District, with my house just a few doors away. It just so happens that my dad's brother lives in the street too, the other flat in the same building as the accused as it so happens! Now none of us are great fans of these ladies of the night, who seem to take great pleasure in assaulting my sister and setting fire to our wheelie bin (as a distraction technique so they can steal bills from the paper recycling bin at back of house is the theory) but I would hope that none of us would be capable of such heinous crimes!

Any who on the day of his arrest, journo's from across the land descended on Ipswich, and in an attempt to find out who lived in the house where the arrest was made, they asked all the neighbours who lived in said house. At this point, the name of the arrested hadn't been officially announced and unfortunately my uncle's name came up more than once and so for a few hours, he was unofficially named as the Suffolk strangler...

Cue fits of hysteria and panic from my grandma and my aunty as a few journo's found out where they worked and were questioned on what it’s like to be the mother/partner of an accused serial killer? Meanwhile Uncle Dave is happily painting away at work, completely oblivious to the fact he’d just been arrested and was currently sitting in a cell.

Didn’t quite witness the crimes, but we saw the accused wash his car once, does that count? We should have known it was a bad area to live in when on the second night after moving in, a police search descended on our garden which resulted in the finding of a man hiding in our shed at 3 in the morning...
(dangleberries, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 13:39, Reply)