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BLUNDERS BY RIPPER POLICE

But Hardy inquiry says impossible to have stopped killer
CRUCIAL clues regarding the suspicious behaviour of Anthony Hardy – the Camden Ripper – were not passed to the coroner who reached a mistaken verdict that his first victim had died of natural causes, an inquiry has found.
The breakdown in communication was revealed in a review of Hardy’s killing spree and highlighted as a cause for concern in a final report published on Tuesday.
An independent panel said the police had not passed on detailed evidence to an inquest into the death of prostitute Sally White, Hardy’s first known victim, whose naked dead body was found locked away in the killer’s council flat in January 2002. Covered only in a towel, she had a bite mark on her thigh and a wound to the head.
Her clothes were bloodied and had been cut from her body.
Hardy, 55, was arrested on suspicion of murder but released after pathologist Dr Freddy Patel – in two separate post mortem reports – ruled that Ms White had died of a heart attack. No murder charge was brought and St Pancras coroner Dr Stephen Chan later ruled that that she had died of natural causes.
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