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A British student who dubbed himself the 'crossbow cannibal' will spend the rest of his life in jail for the 'wicked and monstrous' murders of three prostitutes, a judge said on Tuesday.
Stephen Griffiths, 40, admitted killing Suzanne Blamires, Shelley Armitage and Susan Rushworth, who all went missing in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in northern England.
He pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court to all three murders, which evoked memories of the infamous 'Yorkshire Ripper', Peter Sutcliffe, who murdered 13 women in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Griffiths killed 36-year-old Blamires by firing a crossbow bolt into her head when she tried to flee from him. At an earlier court appearance, he described himself as the 'crossbow cannibal', in reference to reports about the case.
Gruesome video of the murder was recorded by a CCTV camera at the flats where he lived and seen by a caretaker, who alerted police.
Griffiths also admitted killing Armitage, 31, and Rushworth, 43. Relatives of the dead shouted obscenities from the public gallery as he was sentenced. The psychology graduate, who was carrying out research into criminology, claimed he had cooked and eaten parts of his first two victims, boiling one in a pot, and ate the third one raw.
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