Father’s plea to meet serial killer

Daryl Armitage, whose daughter Shelley was one of three women murdered by Griffiths, fears the former Bradford University PhD student will die before revealing where her remains are hidden.

Griffiths, 41, has been on hunger strike in Wakefield Prison for almost three months and has tried several times to kill himself while in custody.

He was told in December that he would remain behind bars for the rest of his life after he admitted murdering and dismembering sex workers Ms Armitage, 31, Susan Rushworth, 43, and Suzanne Blamires, 31, who all touted for business near his flat in Bradford’s red light district.

Mr Armitage said he was tormented by the thought that only two parts of his daughter’s body had been recovered from the River Aire at Shipley.

Griffiths told police he ate pieces of his victims, but Mr Armitage still believes his daughter’s body parts are in the river.

Mr Armitage, who regularly visits the riverbank spot where her remains were found, said: “I do feel there’s not long left for him to live and I do not believe this human rights carry-on, where he’s saying he’s got the right to die.

“We have human rights, what do we have to say about it? Why can’t he be kept alive just to give us our answers?

“I can’t rest until I know exactly what he’s done. I need to know more about what happened to Shelley.

“If I don’t find out, it’ll be preying on me for the rest of my life. I can’t buy a grave because I’ve only got two pieces of Shelley.