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John David Guise Cannan (born 20 February 1954) is a British murderer and rapist. A former car salesman, he was convicted in July 1988 of murder and sexual offences. He was given three life sentences, with a recommendation never to be released, for the murder of Shirley Banks in Bristol in October 1987, the attempted kidnapping of Julia Holman on the previous night, and the rape of a woman in Reading in 1986. He targeted professional women.〔 He is the only suspect in the murder of Suzy Lamplugh, who vanished in July 1986, after going to meet an man calling himself 'Mr Kipper'. In November 2002, however, the Crown Prosecution Service decided that there was insufficient evidence to charge him.〔 That month, Scotland Yard held a press conference at which, in a rare move, officers named him as the man they believe murdered Lamplugh. ==Sexual offences== Cannan indecently assaulted a woman in a phone box in 1968, when he was 14, and was placed on probation.〔〔 He sexually assaulted his girlfriend Daphne Sargent in December 1980, after she left him.〔 He robbed a petrol station at knifepoint in February 1981, and that March, he robbed an knitwear shop at knifepoint, tied up the assistant's mother with tights, and raped the shop assistant after threatening to stab her baby.〔〔 He served five years of an eight-year sentence for rape after being convicted in June 1981.〔 A series of rapes across the West Midlands called the "House for Sale" rapes occurred from 1979 to 1981, and stopped when he was jailed. He was on day release from a hostel at Wormwood Scrubs in 1986 when Suzy Lamplugh went missing. Police say that Cannan's ''modus operandi'' was to pretend to be an West Country businessman. He would ply women with chocolates and flowers, and the attacks often followed rejection.〔 While living in Bristol, he had an affair with a solicitor, which ended in August 1986; he threatened her and her family. Only ten weeks, after he had been finally released from prison,〔 he raped a woman at knife-point in Reading in October 1986, an attack he was linked to by DNA from semen.〔 He had been arrested for this offence earlier, but he gave an alibi that he was in Sutton Coldfield at the time, and the forensic evidence was not strong enough to charge him. An early DNA profile was inconclusive, but the Home Office and ICI both ran the test again in 1988, and demonstrated a match. Police also used evidence from his cashpoint card to prove that he had travelled from London to Bristol that day, and Reading is on the train journey between these cities.〔Crimewatch File: The Shirley Banks Murder. 16 August 1989. BBC Television. Presented by Sue Cook.〕 In October 1987, he tried to abduct 30-year-old Bristol businesswoman Julia Holman from an car park at around 6.50pm at gunpoint, but she fought him off, and later identified him as her attacker.〔〔 The next night he abducted Shirley Banks.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Cannan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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