The prostitute's tale
Updated on 22 December 2006
Tonight take any British city, any prostitute on its streets: we did, in Hull: and discovered that the red light life displayed in Ipswich is no exception.
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When a prostitute is murdered, other women working on Britain's streets fear for their safety. The Ipswich murders have affected prostitutes up and down the country.
Hull has the same number of street workers as Suffolk's county town, but many have been staying at home since the deaths of the five women 200 miles away. What's likely to drive them back is the need for money to pay for drugs.
All five of the women murdered in Ipswich were hard drug users. Stephanie West spent a day with a Hull prostitute and her son. Their names have been changed.
