Is this fake number plate proof that Suzy Lamplugh was the third young woman murdered by John Cannan in 1986? Now police face a race against time to nail him with DNA from a 37-year-old fingerprint -

For all the mystery that still surrounds the disappearance of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, police have only ever suspected one man of killing her. I don’t want anything to do with him.’ Victim Shirley Banks' Mini with the false SLP plate at John Cannan's home Perversely, Cannan’s disturbing bid for freedom comes at the same time that Met Police are reinvestigating the Suzy Lamplugh case after announcing new ‘forensic opportunities’. For retired Detective Superintendent Jim Dickie — who has interviewed Cannan twice and launched the Met Police’s last reinvestigation of the Suzy Lamplugh case in 2000 — the prospect of his release is almost unthinkable. He’s egotistical, manipulative and a very dangerous man.’ Another who warns against freeing Cannan is criminologist and author Christopher Berry-Dee, who has written several books about the killer and received around 50 letters from him, including one in which he wrote: ‘I AM IN CONTROL because information is power.’ When detectives questioned John Cannan the former public schoolboy bragged that there are ‘one or two things I haven’t been caught for’ while sidestepping questions about one of the most high-profile murders in British criminal history ‘You can’t cure psychopathy,’ says Berry-Dee, who has written to the Parole Board to urge them to keep Cannan in jail. Next week marks 30 years since Suzy was officially declared dead by a coroner; seven years after the tragic 25-year-old vanished without trace after going to meet a ‘Mr Kipper’ at a property in Fulham in South West London in July 1986 Someone pretending to be a police officer called the estate agent where she worked claiming to have her chequebook.