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Profile of a sex killer: Leeds shoe fetishist Christopher Farrow stalked victims before brutal murder of Wendy Speakes
Receptionist Wendy Speakes was targeted by Christopher Farrow as she got off a bus and walked home after work. He tricked his way into the 51-year-old's house on Balne Lane, Wakefield, on March 15 1994.
Farrow made Mrs Speakes take off her slippers and wear a pair of blue mule shoes.
He forced her upstairs to her bedroom, where he gagged her and bound her hands with a pair of black stockings which he had bought that afternoon. Farrow placed a pair of her black stilletto shoes on a bedside table before carrying out the attack.
At the same time he stabbed Mrs Speakes, a divorcee who lived alone, nine times in the back and shoulders and twice in the neck.
The killer left a pair of black stockings tied in loops beside the bed and part of a candlewick bedspread which he used to gag her. Farrow then left the house with a pair of her court shoes as a ‘trophy’.
Farrow, who lived in Cookridge, Leeds, remained at large for six years despite a major police manhunt which involved an appeal on national television. He was jailed for life in November 2000 and told he must serve a minimum term of 18 years behind bars.
Detectives said at the time that they believed Farrow, then a 39-year-old painter and decorator, would have become a serial rapist or killer if he had not been caught. A charge of trying to break into another woman's house in Huddersfield was left on file at his sentencing hearing.
Mrs Speakes' daughter, Tracey Millington-Jones, was outraged after discovering Farrow has now been moved from a secure prison in preparation for release following a Parole Board decision.
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Blue mules shoes Wendy Speakes was forced to wear during brutal murder
Receptionist Wendy Speakes was targeted by Christopher Farrow as she got off a bus and walked home after work. He tricked his way into the 51-year-old's house on Balne Lane, Wakefield, on March 15 1994.
Farrow made Mrs Speakes take off her slippers and wear a pair of blue mule shoes.
He forced her upstairs to her bedroom, where he gagged her and bound her hands with a pair of black stockings which he had bought that afternoon. Farrow placed a pair of her black stilletto shoes on a bedside table before carrying out the attack.
At the same time he stabbed Mrs Speakes, a divorcee who lived alone, nine times in the back and shoulders and twice in the neck.
The killer left a pair of black stockings tied in loops beside the bed and part of a candlewick bedspread which he used to gag her. Farrow then left the house with a pair of her court shoes as a ‘trophy’.
Farrow, who lived in Cookridge, Leeds, remained at large for six years despite a major police manhunt which involved an appeal on national television. He was jailed for life in November 2000 and told he must serve a minimum term of 18 years behind bars.
Detectives said at the time that they believed Farrow, then a 39-year-old painter and decorator, would have become a serial rapist or killer if he had not been caught. A charge of trying to break into another woman's house in Huddersfield was left on file at his sentencing hearing.
Mrs Speakes' daughter, Tracey Millington-Jones, was outraged after discovering Farrow has now been moved from a secure prison in preparation for release following a Parole Board decision.
much more at link
Blue mules shoes Wendy Speakes was forced to wear during brutal murder
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