Camden Ripper linked to five more killings

By Anna Gekoski & Lucy Panton
THE victims of five horrific unsolved murders may have been killed by the Camden Ripper.

Cops want to question jailed psychopath Tony Hardy about the gruesome deaths of:

PAULA FIELDS, 31, a mother of two, whose mutilated body was found wrapped in bin bags in London's Regent's Canal in 2000.

ZOE PARKER, 24, a prostitute whose body was cut in half and washed up in Battersea in 2000. Hardy drank in a pub near her home in Hounslow, West London.

MARINA GOMEZ, 39, a prostitute who was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife. Attempts had been made to dismember her body.

HAYLEY CURTIS, 23, buried in a shallow grave near Petersfield, Hampshire, in January 2002. She worked in Norwich, where Hardy spent time.

KELLIE PRATT, 29, a prostitute from Norwich who vanished in 2000.

Hardy, 52, was jailed last week for brutally killing three London hookers at his dingy flat in Camden, north London, and dismembering their bodies.

Crucial

Det Chief Insp Ken Bell said: "We believe he has a lot more to tell us including some answers for the families of victims Elizabeth Valad and Bridgette MacLennan, whose hands and heads are still missing.

"He's an arrogant man who constantly played mind games with us. He is the most evil, devious and manipulative man I've ever dealt with."

The News of the World can also reveal how Hardy terrorised his ex-wife, Judith, and tried to kill her.

A friend told us: "He struck her on the head with a frozen bottle of water as she slept in their bed.

"She woke up but was dazed and in pain. Tony was like a man possessed he dragged her into the bathroom, slumped her over the bath and started pushing her head under the water.

"It was only when their eight-year-old son came into the room and tried to pull Tony off that he stopped.

"If it wasn't for her son, Judy would have died that day."

Hardy was allowed free rein to prey on vulnerable women because of a catalogue of blunders. Hooker Sally Rose White, 39, was found dead in his flat last year, but a pathologist said she had died of a heart attack.

Before that he raped a woman and was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Two psychiatrists said he was too dangerous to let out, but he was freed by lay mental heath managers.