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  kelvinshuffle

  Dec. 19, 2006, 4:02 a.m.

  the plot thickens....
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  RealTalk

  Dec. 19, 2006, 6:13 a.m.

  "Wow,another suspect:Yes the plot does thicken"

  A Special Constable is a law enforcement officer who is not a PERMANENT member of a police force.Rather they are a member of a VOLUTEER police auxiliary. and support their local police force.

  'Specials', as the Special Constables are known, come from all walks of life - they are teachers,taxi drivers, accountants and secretaries - and they all volunteer a minimum of four hours a week to their local police forces, forming a vital link between the regular (full-time) police and the local community.

  At first, they are asked to spend some weekends training. Later they will take part in regular evening and update sessions working through the national training curricula.

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    beachboy6000

    Dec. 19, 2006, 8:23 a.m.

    You know far too much about this......are you in any way involved RT?

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      RealTalk

      Dec. 19, 2006, 8:47 a.m.

      Hahaha...no that's how a comment should be. Factual and Challenging Conversation!! I gouge into the story with female intuition...LOL!!

      Actually it helps to know how with his "Title" and that he was a member of "Myspace" you can see how he would be able to manipulate (5) prostitutes that were from the same area and all fairly young women,some new eachother.

      Everybody has their own way of thinking and opinions, I'm not the cops so read and think for yourselves.I'm just doing me so do you.

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        beachboy6000

        Dec. 19, 2006, 9:16 a.m.

        I think they should hire you as an advisor!
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  RealTalk

  Dec. 19, 2006, 6:14 a.m.

  They must be thoroughly grounded in the basic aspects of police work before they can begin to carry out any police duties, so they are trained in police service, self defence, powers of arrest, common crimes, and preparing evidence for court.Once they have completed their training, they have the same powers as a regular officer and wear a similar uniform.

  http://specials.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-specials/
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  RealTalk

  Dec. 19, 2006, 6:28 a.m.

  **GASP** I wonder if he (first suspect-Tom Stephens, 37) was on Myspace as a volunteer special constable to help the local police dept. weed out imperceivable nefarious offenders? What else is conspicuous is he does admit to knowing all 5 of the victims,but claims no wrong doing. I wonder if he met them through Myspace or another huddle site. A couple of the women were friends. I'm glad to hear they have seized his laptop-pc and cell phone.

  Miss Clennell, Miss Nicholls and Miss Adams, Miss Alderton and Miss Nicol's ~ Rest In Peace

  *It will be interesting to find out more in the coming days.

  *Sounds like they have their hands on two wackos.

  Thanks Kelvinshuffle for the update.

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    RealTalk

    Dec. 19, 2006, 8:48 a.m.

    Your probably right Uncle Meat.
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  Albion

  Dec. 19, 2006, 8:17 a.m.

  What gets me is these 24 hour news channels, BBC News24, Sky, CNN, France24, Fox News (oops sorry don't know how Fox got in there) latch on to every and any bit of news or non-news.

  A neighbour saw police arrive at 5am quote 'there were loads of them, police cars everywhere' well what would you expect. 'He came out all covered out' big deal. 'He had a big nose' is this a slight against the French. 'The media are concerned about all the media attention' ironic that one!!!!!!

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    RealTalk

    Dec. 19, 2006, 9:09 a.m.

    I didn't see the news, but the "big nose" comment might of been their way of sarcasticly refering to him being all covered up. Think about it (if the heads covered alls showing is the nose)I don't think it was anything against the French personally.

    (News)They're job is to keep the public informed.
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  kelvinshuffle

  Dec. 19, 2006, 10:34 a.m.

  well all the time we are interested they'll keep reporting if it's a really obvivous thing to say!
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  royal-m

  Dec. 19, 2006, 12:30 p.m.

  Prostituion should be legal every where and heavily monitored. It would cut down on these ladis turning up as victims for these killers so often. Even in a fairly civilized country like England the safety of those on the fringes of society is clearly a problem

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    Fabienne

    Dec. 19, 2006, 12:58 p.m.

    Prostitution is not necessarily illegal in England, only some of the activities associated with it. Lots of links at the bottom of this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_U
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  kelvinshuffle

  Dec. 19, 2006, 12:38 p.m.

  if we are to believe the reports that tom stephens was familar and friends with the girls in question i'm not certain whether legalisation would have helped.

  Not that I nesc believe that legalisation would be bad but in this particular case I'm not sure whether it would have helped

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