A man convicted of killing a woman and suspected of murdering missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh has died in prison.

John Cannan, 70, was jailed in 1989 for the abduction and murder of newlywed Shirley Banks from Bristol.

He was later implicated in the murder of 25-year-old Ms Lamplugh, from London, who disappeared in 1986. Her body has never been found.

The Prison Service confirmed his death at HMP Full Sutton and added: “As with all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will investigate.”

Ms Lamplugh disappeared after going to meet a client in Fulham on 28 July 1986. He was known only as “Mr Kipper” and was never traced.

According to reports, Cannan was nicknamed Kipper during an earlier prison sentence.

He also bore a resemblance to an e-fit of a man with whom Ms Lamplugh was seen talking on the day she went missing – thought to be the mysterious Mr Kipper.

A search of the back garden of a house once owned by the mother of prime suspect John Cannan in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, was conducted in 2018.

Owner Phillip Carey bought the home in Shipton Road from the mother of Cannan, a convicted killer.

Two sites in Worcestershire – a former Army barracks and a field outside the village of Drakes Broughton – and a woodland in the Quantock Hills, Somerset, have also been searched in the hunt for Ms Lamplugh’s body.

In 1989, Cannan was jailed for life for the abduction and murder of Shirley Banks and two further rapes.

She was a newlywed factory manager from Clifton, Bristol.

Cannan was arrested 11 days later in Birmingham, where some of Mrs Banks’ possessions were found. He was then arrested.

Mrs Banks’ body was discovered in a stream on the Quantock Hills in Somerset.

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