A killer and proud of it: CCTV images show Crossbow Cannibal luring final victim

Poses like a totsean.

• Chilling pictures show last moments of terrified prostitute Suzanne Blamires
• Griffiths celebrates his final slaying with gestures to camera
• Footage shows how another prostitute was just seconds from death

One finger to the world: A dead girl in his flat, 'Crossbow Cannibal' Stephen Griffiths poses for the camera, knowing police are on their way


They are extraordinary pictures of a psychopath trapping and killing his prey.

But it is the chilling images of ‘Crossbow Cannibal’ Stephen Griffiths brazenly celebrating his final murder in front of a CCTV camera that will ensure his place in the criminal history books.

Never before has such explicit video footage of a murderer in action been revealed.
The camera in the corridor outside the serial killer’s flat clearly shows the PhD student’s face contorted with rage before he executes prostitute Suzanne Blamires, 36, with a crossbow bolt and a knife to the head.
Moments later, accepting that the murder has been caught on film, he coolly strolls up to the camera and brandishes his crossbow in an act of bravado.

Griffiths also makes an obscene one-fingered gesture and, as he walks out of the building to search for another victim, holds up a bottle of Sprite as if to toast his success.
Police were called in after Peter Gee, caretaker of Holmfield Court, a housing association block of flats in Bradford, carried out his usual Monday task of checking the weekend’s CCTV video last May.
Griffiths, who was studying for a doctorate in the history of homicide, had remained at his flat and was waiting for officers to come and arrest him.

When marksmen burst in, he called out: ‘I’m in here. I’m Osama Bin Laden.’
Last week at Leeds Crown Court, 40-year-old Griffiths was jailed for the rest of his life after admitting the murders of Miss Blamires and two other prostitutes, Susan Rushworth, 43, and Shelley Armitage, 31.
He chopped up their bodies in his ‘slaughterhouse’ bathroom and ate sections of their flesh before disposing of the remaining body parts.


He told police he had killed ‘loads’ of women and compared himself to Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, who murdered 13.


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