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Suzy’s desperate family wants 68-year-old John Cannan to tell them what really happened to the real estate agent while he is receiving palliative care at the end of his life in prison.
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The main suspect in the murder of real estate agent Suzy Lamplugh is on his deathbed, it was revealed last night.
John Cannan, 68, is receiving palliative care at the end of his life in prison.
Suzy’s family, whose body has never been discovered, is now waiting for Cannan to finally reveal what happened to him before he died.
Police named him the prime suspect in the disappearance of Suzy, 25, in Fulham, west London, in July 1986.
He is serving a life sentence for another murder and has always denied any connection to Suzy’s case.
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Suzy Lamplugh was a real estate agent whose disappearance is still a mystery (
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Cannan, who is in prison in Full Sutton, East Yorks, has been suffering from health problems for several years, but this year he would have been eligible for parole.
Suzy’s brother, Richard, was unaware of his medical condition, but urged him to reveal the truth before he died.
He told the Mirror, “I’d like Cannan, if he knows, to tell us what happened to Suze. After all these years, I’d like him to finally tell us what happened.
“It would mean a lot to the family.”
Suzy disappeared in July 1986 (
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Suzy disappeared after meeting a “Mr Kipper”, of whom a photo was later posted, to show her a house on Shorrolds Road, Fulham.
His white Ford Fiesta was later found outside a property for sale on Stevenage Road a mile away.
The doors were unlocked, the parking brake was turned off and his bag was found in the side door pocket.
In 2002, police finally named Cannan the prime suspect in Suzy’s disappearance and murder.
Police dug up Suzy Lamplugh’s remains in a Worcestershire camp in 2019 (
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But the CPS said there was not enough evidence to prosecute him. Officers have carried out a number of excavations in recent years for Suzy’s body, including in Worcestershire in 2019.
In 2018, the garden of Cannan’s mother’s former home in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham was also searched.
The former car salesman was sentenced to three life sentences for kidnapping and murdering 29-year-old Shirley Banks in 1987.
This Suzy car was found on Stevenage Road, Fulham (
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Cannan was given a lifetime fee, which was later reduced to a minimum of 35 years.
In 2019, Cannan spoke to the Sunday Mirror in a phone call from his cell before a previous parole offer.
He said: “I had no involvement in the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh.
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“I am concerned that the police will use Suzy ‘s disappearance to undermine my prospects for parole.
“My concern is that bandaging has become the rule, not the exception.” At the time, Cannan also revealed that he was suffering from partial paralysis and needed to use a wheelchair after a stroke.
Richard and Sister Tamsin with their daughter Amelia in 1986 (
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He stated that the Met was “determined to use me as a convenient peg to hang the disappearance.”
Retired supervisor Jim Dickie, who spent six years investigating Suzy’s abduction, said: “Cannan is still a suspect in Suzy Lamplugh’s disappearance and murder.
“It’s extremely manipulative and should not be trusted.”
In an earlier interview, Suzy’s brother, Richard, added: buried who killed him.
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“It simply came to our notice then.
“Accept what comes and if you find it, so be it.
“Then we will have to face what comes out of it.”
A Justice Department spokesman said last night that they could not comment on Cannan’s health.
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