'A chill wind rushes down Manchester’s Canal Street, rippling the green slime
on the surface of the water. Strings of fairy lights, remnants of the
festive season, clatter in the trees as a lone pedestrian turns up the
collar of his winter coat.
Overhead, the light is fading. Below, in the murky water, bubbles rise and
burst amid a sludge littered with debris from nights gone by: takeaway
boxes, empty beer cans, condom wrappers, needles. The walkway is dotted with
tunnels, low-hanging and cobwebbed, where shadows lurk beyond the reach of
street lights and the air is heavy with the stench of decay.
If the whispers that have surfaced this week are to be believed, this is not a
place to be after dark. A serial killer – nicknamed “The Pusher” – is said
to stalk these parts....'... “Having looked at the data, I simply can’t discount the possibility of foul play,”
' ...experts are divided over Prof Jackson’s claims about the Manchester deaths. “Sixty-one deaths is a staggeringly high number to simply put down to chance,” says Prof David Wilson, a criminologist at Birmingham University. “The police hate the suggestion that there may be a serial killer – they look wrong-footed, or slow to act.”
Meanwhile, Prof David Canter, a renowned psychologist who developed the science of investigative psychology from offender profiling, says the suggestion is “rather irresponsible” without further evidence about exactly where the bodies were found and likely causes of death. “This is a very large area near places where lots of people get drunk. A more helpful comment would be to question the safety of canals at night.”
Whatever the truth behind the deaths, rumours about The Pusher abound online and whispers echo up and down the waterway. As darkness falls on Canal Street, two police officers start their patrol, and lingering pedestrians quicken their pace towards home. Though it may have the makings of fiction, what happened here is all too real for the grieving relatives of those who have died; many of them still waiting for answers to bubble up from the shadowy depths of the canal.
“Don’t fall in,” warns a passer-by, as I lean over the black water for a closer look. I jump, steady my footing and turn around – but he’s gone.'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11350062/Who-is-stalking-the-canals-and-streets-of-Manchester.html
.Partial Map, The Sun.
IT awaits in the water for the next offering...they make? Watch your step.
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