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Crossbow Cannibal 'close to death' as weight plummets to six stone after ten month hunger strike

Updated: 06:03 EST, 8 August 2011



The self-proclaimed 'Crossbow Cannibal' who boasted of eating parts of his victims is on the brink of death after spending ten months on a hunger strike, prison sources claim.

Stephen Griffiths, 41, is understood to have refused all food and his weight has plummeted from 13 stone to six stone.

The serial killer's internal organs are said to be failing and he is so weak he spends his time slumped on his prison bed in his cell in maximum security Wakefield Prison. Stephen Griffiths is demanding the right to die in Wakefield Prison and is starving himself

'He has problem with his kidneys and eyesight. But the main issue is damage to his liver - that is life-threatening,' a Police source told the People.

'He is still drinking fluids but he is getting weaker and can hardly stand.'

The former criminology PhD student began his hunger strike last November, as he faced trial for the sickening murders of three prostitutes.




Griffiths, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, was handed three life sentences last December for the horrific murders of prostitutes Susan Rushworth, 43, Shelley Armitage, 31, and Suzanne Blamires, 36.

He slaughtered the women, killing one with a crossbow, and dismembered their bodies. Susan Rushworth, 43, Suzanne Blamires, 36, and Shelley Armitage, 31 were all slaughtered by the serial killer from Bradford

After butchering the women, he ate their flesh and then dumped their corpses in the River Aire, apart from Miss Rushworth, who he refuses to tell police where her body is.

He unsuccessfully made a number of apparent attempts on his own life, including one when he was found unconscious with a sock tied around his neck.

The Ministry of Justice refused to comment, but a prison insider said: ‘He is not eating and is stick-thin. He is having water and fruit juice and is taking medication.’

West Yorkshire detectives have visited Griffiths in jail three times to ask him about other unsolved cases but he has so far refused to co-operate.


Crossbow Cannibal Stephen Griffiths close to death after 10-month hunger strike
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