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Police search for Suzy Lamplugh's body in Sutton Coldfield

1,300 views · Published 30 October 2018 · 0:56 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: Daily Mail World · 2018 · People & Blogs

Miss Lamplugh, 25, disappeared in 1986 after showing a 'Mr Kipper' around a house in Fulham, west London - and detectives believe convicted killer John Cannan is responsible for one of Britain’s most infamous unsolved murders.

Cannan is currently serving 35 years for the murder of Shirley Banks in 1987 but Suzy's missing body and a lack of forensic evidence means he has never faced trial.

Today officers including experts who helped search for Madeleine McCann are using specialist equipment to scan and dig up concrete at his mother's former in Sutton Coldfield - but the Met will not say what prompted the new excavation work.

The extraordinary development came 15 years after police first named Cannan as their 'only suspect' but the CPS ruled out a prosecution claiming there was 'insufficient evidence' to put him in the dock.

The controversial decision led to a prisoner serving with Cannan to tell police in 2002 he heard Suzy could be buried under the patio said her alleged killer laid while wearing a coat splattered with his victim's blood.

The suburban property was sold to Phillip Carey, 52, in 1992 and he revealed that officers were searching his garden from November 2003 to the spring of 2004 but found nothing and didn't take anything away.

He said today: 'They knew what they were looking for. It was just patio they were looking at as far as I was aware'.

Police returned a few months ago asking for access to the garden and Mr Carey said: 'We know they’re digging for a body. The police were looking at a corrugated iron shed at the back of the garden. They've pulled it down and I think they're going to start digging it up in case they find anything underneath it'. He added: 'The police have been completely thoughtless, but their major incidents team have been amazing'.

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Police search for Suzy Lamplugh's body in Sutton Coldfield

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