SUZY Lamplugh’s brother has slammed the prime suspect in her murder after he wrote a whinging letter from his jail cell.
Convicted rapist and murderer John Cannan has been named by police as the monster who killed Suzy, 25, in July 1986.
PA:Press AssociationJohn Cannan moaned he had an alibi on the day Suzy vanished[/caption]
SWNS:South West News ServiceThe estate agent was last seen in 1986[/caption]
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The serial predator was jailed for at least 35 years in 1989 for the rape and murder of Shirley Banks in Bristol in 1987.
His bid for freedom was rejected in October after the Parole Board ruled he was too dangerous to be released.
But in a moaning letter from his cell, Cannan claimed he has an alibi for the day Suzy went missing.
The estate agent’s brother has now hit out at the convicted killer as he brushed aside his whining.
Richard, 63, told the Mirror: “His story may be true but there’s no proof of it.
“He’s probably trying to make up a story, but I wish he had come out with it when he was first arrested.”
The decision not to release Cannan means the killer, who was reported to be “on his deathbed” is likely to die in jail.
He claimed in his letter to the publication that he was “not involved in the disappearance” of Suzy.
Cannan added: “I have an alibi.”
He continued: “On the day in question I was in central Birmingham treating my mother to a spot of lunch and following that, engaged in shopping.
“So why do the police insist upon blaming me?”
Estate agent Suzy vanished in July 1986 after going to show a client named Mr Kipper a home in Fulham, West London.
She was officially declared dead eight years later with her parents tragically dying before discovering what happened to their daughter.
Rapist, kidnapper and murderer Cannan was questioned about her disappearance and was arrested for the murder in 2000.
But the CPS decided there was insufficient evidence to charge him – with police later taking the rare step of naming him as a prime suspect in 2002.
Cannan had been released from a prison hostel just three days before Suzy disappeared and was even said to use the name “Kipper” in jail.
A criminologist also revealed DNA evidence linked Suzy to a Ford Sierra he once used with the false number plate SLP 386S.
The Parole Board rejected the bid to release Cannan or move him to an open prison to protect the public.
Suzy’s brother said: “I’m pleased he’s in prison. If he killed my sister then as far as I’m concerned he’s doing time for it. And if he didn’t kill my sister, he’s doing his time for the murder he did commit.
“He murdered and raped… As far as I’m concerned he should stay in prison.”
Cannan began his sadistic rampage against women when he was just 14 after he assaulted a woman inside a phone booth.
In 1980, he choked his mistress during sex and told her he was going to kill her when she tried to leave him.
The monster committed his first rape a year later when he attacked tied up another lover and attacked her in front of her mum at knifepoint.
He was jailed for eight years in 1981 but later transferred to an open prison – meaning he was on day release at the time of Suzy’s disappearance.
Cannan went on to rape a woman in Reading and later signed up for a video dating agency weeks before he attempted to kidnap a woman at gunpoint.
Textile factory manager Shirley Banks, 29, had recently married when she was snatched in Bristol in 1987.
Her naked body was found six months after her disappearance at a site named “Dead Woman’s Ditch” in Somerset.
ShutterstockSuzy vanished in July 1986[/caption]
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