Aged just 25, the estate agent walked out of her Fulham office for a house viewing on July 28, 1986, and never returned. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images [7], Detectives considered the possibility that the number plate Cannan had attached to Banks' car which read SLP 386S could be an ordnance survey grid reference, since this would notably give a location very close to Dead Women's Ditch, where Banks was found dumped. Suzy always telephoned. Its incredibly sad for all of us, says Lizzie. [45][6] The landlord telephoned Lamplugh to inform her and she arranged to collect her belongings at 6pm on Monday 28 July the day she disappeared. I know its just a paper but I thought I dont want people to be walking over my sisters picture. [32] The book, which was initially supported by the Lamplugh family before they read the draft versions of it, made a number of allegations about her sex life and personal life. He is serving three life sentences for murdering 29-year-old newly-wed Shirley Banks in Bristol in 1987 and for a series of sex attacks. TheMissing is a Podimo podcast series produced by WhatsTheStory Sounds and made in association with specialists Locate International andMissingPeople. The only comfort for us is in the sense that, in some way, she has been released from all the pain.. Because everyone has the right to be safe. [6], On the evidence they found, the police made the decision to search for Lamplugh's body. The family of an attractive realtor named Suzy Lamplugh, 25, tragically endured this experience. His father Paul passed away at the age of 87 on 12 June 2018, before his father could get justice for his dear daughter. [69], In July 2019, a police search of land in Pershore, with the assistance of archaeologists, produced no relevant evidence. [4] When he was asked by detectives if he understood the significance of the number plate, he unexpectedly replied immediately that it could be seen as a reference to Suzy Lamplugh, who had not yet been mentioned at that point. Mum doesnt know shes going through this tragedy but shes going through a second one. [5][12] This indicated that someone else had driven the car. [5][13][7] It was also parked poorly and was partly overlapping a garage. The Lamplughs were a close family, made up of mum Diana, then 49, dad Paul, 55, Richard, Suzy, and younger sisters Tamsin, 24, and Lizzie, 16. [12], In 1990, a woman named Gilly Paige, who Cannan had been in a relationship with after Lamplugh's disappearance, informed police that Cannan had spoken to her about the Lamplugh case and had told her that she was buried at Norton Barracks while they were driving past on the M5 motorway. She could be part of our conversation now. [12], Police suggested that a black, left-hand drive BMW vehicle may have been involved, because of an eyewitness account of a car of that description seen parked in Shorrolds Road. I know its just a paper but I thought I dont want people to be walking over my sisters picture. It was so important for her, shed been fighting and fighting for that knowledge.. The last clue to Lamplugh's whereabouts was an appointment to show a house in Shorrolds Road to someone she referred to as "Mr Kipper". Diane suffered a stroke in 2003 and has since develop Alzheimers she no longer remembers Suzy. "I know its just a paper but I thought I dont want people to be walking over my sisters picture.". I would lose confidence in myself a lot in those early years after shed gone. It was like losing a best friend, an extension of myself, says Tamsin, now 49. One of the last things Suzy said to mum and dad was life is for living, life is good. I think that Suzy got into a row with Cannan on the day, he abducted her from the car, or made her get into the vehicle he had at the time. I think, as a family, we knew quite early that she wasnt coming back, Lizzie says quietly. . [12] However, he claimed that he chose the letters on the plate at random. "As I was laying down the paper one day, I saw my sisters photo and I was going Ill pick that photo up and put it somewhere and lay another piece down. "As I was laying down the paper one day, I saw my sisters photo and I was going Ill pick that photo up and put it somewhere and lay another piece down. Cannan was eventually jailed for Shirley's murder in October 1987, the attempted kidnapping of Julia Holman on the previous night and the rape of a woman in Reading, Berkshire, in October 1986. He explains: "The big hope was that shed hit her head or got amnesia. [5] Ten minutes after that the owner of the house next door heard someone leaving number 37, and saw Suzy and a man leaving the house and looking back up at it. "But weve got pictures of Suzy around the house and when I look at them I do think of her.". Suzy drove me to the airport, Lizzie says. Suzy Lamplugh's brother wants police to investigate new evidence that her body was dumped in a canal days after she went missing in 1986. Richard explains: "My sisters are slightly luckier because theyve got married and use their partners names. Richard Lamplugh Suzy's brother. "Sometimes I wonder what she would be doing now - but well never know.". I would lose confidence in myself a lot in those early years after shed gone. [46] The 'policeman' may have been Cannan. [71] This canal sighting was covered in the documentaries The Vanishing of Suzy Lamplugh[72] and In the Footsteps of Killers. [49], Detectives on the reinvestigation team also believed that Cannan could have been responsible for taking the contents of her handbag in the first place, and stated the events were a clear indicator of stalking. When we came out of our meeting with the police, she said: I now feel theyve done everything they could do.. . Suzy Lamplugh's brother wants police to investigate new evidence that her body was dumped in a canal days after she went missing in 1986. The three girls and older brother Richard were raised in East Sheen, South-West London, by their mum Diana, a fitness club manager, and solicitor dad Paul. The name 'Mr Kipper' was also linked to Cannan, who was discharged from a prison hostel just three days before Suzy's disappearance, after serving five years for rape. "She really was a family person, she enjoyed family time and I think she was the one who brought us together. If I was down in the dumps shed sit on the edge of my bed and say, Come on, tell me whats wrong.. [55] Although he previously had said he drove this car often, Cannan has since changed his story and now denies ever using the vehicle. [55] This is despite the fact that the man who lent it to him has confirmed that Cannan had access to it at the time and said Cannan may have had used it on the day Lamplugh disappeared. In an era before mobile phones, it took their mother days to track them down to a remote campsite on the North Island and let them know Suzy was missing. [4][25] He claimed that he had bought the car off a "Bristol businessman" who was responsible for "the murders of Shirley Banks, Suzy Lamplugh and another girl", and that this man was in a lot of trouble. [12] A new reinvestigation was subsequently launched in the early 2000s under a new team, with detectives being told that they should seek to find out whether Cannan could be eliminated as a suspect or implicated in her murder. . You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. [17] He also often delivered roses to women as a romantic ploy, as had happened in the Lamplugh case. "Its never going to bring Suze back, but Id like him to be kept in jail so hes never let out. "The hardest part of it all was coming to terms with her death. "It's a fantastic legacy. The Lamplughs were a close family, made up of mum Diana, then 49, dad Paul, 55, Richard, Suzy, and younger sisters Tamsin, 24, and Lizzie, 16. . Speaking together for the first time and to mark Suzys 50th birthday, Lizzie and Tamsin reflected on the happier times they shared with their older sister as a child. [23][74], While in prison, Cannan told a solicitor that he might well "reveal all" about Lamplugh when his mother died. "I hope he is convicted eventually, because then hell stay in there for life.". Although the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was not enough evidence to secure a conviction, the family at least feel closer to knowing what happened. Shes lost a daughter, and now shes lost her memories. Richard, who now lives in Aberdeen with his wife Christine and their daughters, was 26 and working on a fish farm in Hertfordshire when his sister disappeared. "It's a fantastic legacy. Despite these clues, the police made no arrests. Suzy Lamplugh's body has never been found ever since she vanished more than 35 years ago, and now, with the main suspect in her disappearance, John Cannan, receiving palliative care in prison for another murder, her family are begging one last time for answers. [36][37][17] However, police found no evidence for this theory and discounted it, noting that Sams' own crimes were more likely influenced by the high-profile Lamplugh case. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. "They say time is a healer and I suppose thats what time is. [4] Cannan was known as someone who would play such tricks with investigators, and it was believed that his decision to dump Banks' body in 'Dead Women's Ditch' was entirely intentional, and so too could be the wording of the number plate. Shes still very much part of our family.. It was the last time I saw her.. It was very strange because you wouldn't leave a car like that. [35] The book was widely labelled as salacious and false, and Stephen was accused of victim blaming. "That didnt sound like Suzy, Im sure she wouldnt have done that, but all those things go through your mind. It was his mother Diana who called to tell Richard that Suzy was missing on the evening of July 28, but he refused to believe the worst at first. In 1988, journalist Andrew Stephen published a highly controversial book on the Lamplugh case. "She was a really striking woman, very pretty. [5], The sighting of the pair standing outside the house was corroborated by another man who was walking past the property at around the same time. [53] The lead detective in the re-investigations, Jim Dickie, stated that he was as certain as he can be without going through a formal judicial process that Cannan was responsible. dad Paul, 55, Richard, Suzy . [7] The witness sightings of a dark, left-hand drive BMW being parked near to Lamplugh, and in which Lamplugh was believed to have been seen struggling were given added significance when it emerged that Cannan owned a dark-coloured left-hand drive BMW at the time, which he used to commit crimes with a fellow inmate. [22][17] Another place Cannan frequented was the Prince of Wales pub in Putney, which Lamplugh was known to have visited on the very day Cannan was released by the nearby prison, three days before Lamplugh was last seen. Suzy was 25, beautiful and with everything to live for and then suddenly shes gone.. [4] Further interviews were carried out with Cannan over Lamplugh's disappearance in 1988, 1989 and 1990. Cannan, 68, was named by Scotland Yard in 2002 as its chief suspect in the case. Cannan's brother has said . On what would have been her 50th, the guest of honour was present only in the family photographs that lined the walls of the house. He regularly tells Rosie and her older sister, Lily, 14, about the aunt they never knew. [70] In August 2019, the Specialist Investigation Team received a sighting from the time of the disappearance of a man resembling Cannan dumping a suitcase in the Grand Union Canal. [17], In 1999, an internal report by the Metropolitan Police criticised the handling of the original investigation and failure to further investigate John Cannan. Its like shes just gone into the next room and she may come back in at any minute. Tamsin and Lizzie were very close to their older sister she was a giggling confidante to Tamsin, just 14 months her junior, and mother hen to Lizzie, nine years younger and the baby of the family. Mr Lamplugh and his sisters Tamsin and Lizzy are the only surviving members of Suzy's family. [17] Over 5 days of interviews,[42] Cannan did not provide interviewers with any information which could eliminate him from the inquiry, and did not provide an alibi for his movements between 25 and 28 July 1986. At the same time, Steve Wright, who was convicted in February 2008 of the murder of five women in Ipswich, was working as a steward on the QE2. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. [4] Because Lamplugh was only considered a missing person, known criminals in the area were not considered as suspects. 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