Chapter 23The discovery of the body of Bridget Riley amongst the sand hills at Ainsdale beach made the headlines in all the national press. Following the discovery it soon became known that it was the body of Bridget Riley, the prostitute who had given evidence for the crown in the double murder trial involving Harry Thompson at Liverpool not so long ago. Once it became known she had been killed with a blow to the head, probably caused by a hammer or a similar heavy instrument, the speculation that she had been killed by a pathological maniac with a hatred of prostitutes, started in earnest. Naturally, this in turn conjured up visions of the Yorkshire ripper, and whilst the police appealed for the public to remain calm, nevertheless, there was a lot of disquiet amongst those other girls si
