Baby P Mum to Get New ID - And Fitness Guru

Tracy Connelly, the mother of Baby P will get a new identity "package" when she is freed from jail - with a stylist and personal trainer to help her lose weight.
Details of her sadistic boyfriend Steven Barker, 33, and his elder brother Jason Owen - the couple's paedophile lodger - were also released after a court order, which prevented them being identified, expired.
But it has now emerged that Connelly is likely to get a new name, social security details and a costly new appearance, paid for by the taxpayer.
Sources told Sky News these would include a new hairstyle and a fitness guru who would help her slim down.
She could be set free in less then three years after getting intense therapy sessions reserved for a select few inmates. The overweight inmate has told friends that she plans a series of holidays to Egypt, Greece and Italy and her life would be "one long party".
As her picture appeared on the front pages of every newspaper, police and probation officers were already considering ways to protect her. It seems highly likely she will be offered the same protection as Jamie Bulger killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, and Soham liar Maxine Carr..
Like Carr, who lied for double-murderer Ian Huntley, there are already fears that Connelly will be tracked down by a "lynch mob" upon her release. The courts will have to decide whether there is a risk of a mob waiting for her as there was in the case of the Jamie Bulger killers
Connelly, who stood by as baby Peter was tortured to death, has been moved from London's Holloway jail to Low Newton near Durham.
As for the brutal brothers who showed no mercy to Baby Peter, they terrorised their own frail grandmother, it can be revealed.
Years before Peter's death, Steven Barker and Jason Owen - who changed his surname after the Baby P case - were accused of locking 82-year-old Hilda Barker in a wardrobe to make her change her will so they could benefit from it.
The thugs were said to have beaten her black and blue in November 1995 and dressed up in Guy Fawkes masks to frighten her at her home in the seaside town of Whitstable. Mrs Barker's daughter called in police and the brothers were arrested.
Their grandmother was so shaken by her experience she was moved to a care home, where she died in January 1996. The will was found to be invalid. But the brothers never faced trial as Mrs Barker died after they were remanded and police dropped the case because of her death, which was later ruled to be down to pneumonia. The trial heard Barker had tortured guinea pigs and frogs as a child and as an adult was a keen collector of Nazi memorabilia.
The house where baby Peter died was full of dead mice which Barker used to feed his pet snake.
Barker moved away from home and lived in Tottenham, working as a handyman for a letting agency, and after meeting Tracey Connelly in 2006 he became her lover and moved into her home.
Bruises began to appear on the baby but Connelly covered up for Barker who said they were caused by the baby banging his head or falling over. Connelly often left him to look after the toddler. When challenged about screams coming from the child's room, he said he was trying to "toughen him up".
He was seen coming out of Peter's bedroom after squeezing the boy so tight he appeared to stop breathing.
Barker would take his Rottweiler dog, Kaiser, for walks in the local cemetery, sometimes with Peter, and marks on the toddler's head looked like the dog’s teeth had caused them.
The injuries leading to his death escalated in the five weeks after Owen, who lived in Bromley, Kent, moved in with his 15-year-old runaway girlfriend.
He laughed at the way his brother treated the baby but when Peter died, Owen took Barker to a campsite in Epping Forest, Essex, and helped dispose of bloodstained bedding and clothing.
Owen was on bail until halfway through the trial when a plot to flee the country was foiled.
Police discovered he had been trying to change his name again and applying for a new passport.
Barker has also been convicted of raping a two-year-old girl who, like Baby P, should have been protected by social workers. The rape allegation came to light when they were arrested for Peter’s death. Both children were on the Haringey Council child protection register.

 

Other Yorkshire Ripper victims?

Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, reportedly first began his attacks with the “Stone-In-Sock” attack in September 1969. His next confessed attack was in July 1975.
Speculation about additional Yorkshire Ripper attacks came from Keith Hellawell, Chief Constable of West Yorkshire. In 1996 he had examined 20 murders, which he believes may be the responsibility of Sutcliffe. Mr Hellawell said that the unsolved murders and attempted murders are linked by a number of factors, including similar descriptions, the use of a hammer as a weapon, and identical head injuries.
Further information about attacks, which might be the responsibility of Peter Sutcliffe, became available in 2003 with the release of the book "Wicked Beyond Belief" by Michael Bilton. Included in the documents available to the author, were the unpublished sections of the Byford Report, which examined attacks not included in the original investigation.
On February 3 2005, the Yorkshire Evening Post reported that after Peter Sutcliffe's arrest, a list of 47 crimes that he could have been responsible for was drawn up by Ripper Squad detectives on an official TIC (taken into consideration) form.
One case the newspaper reported as being on the list was the murder of Fred Craven. This murder of may have been Sutcliffe’s first step into the dark and violent world of the serial killer.

FRED CRAVEN
Date of attack: April 22 1966
Place of attack: Bradford
Outcome: Murdered
On Friday, April 22 1966, in Bingley, Bradford, shortly after 11:30 am, Fred Craven, 66, was murdered with a blunt instrument in his betting office above an antique shop in Wellington Street. It was established that, while there was no racing that day, he had gone into his office to pick up some papers. He had made a quick telephone call to a relative, and police believed that his killer must have come into the office just as he finished his phone call.
A relative found his body at 11:40 am that same morning.
Fred Craven had suffered terrible blunt force injuries to the back of his head, to his left arm, and fractured ribs where he had been kicked in the chest. His murderer had stolen his wallet, which was believed to have contained 200 pounds in cash.
Police believed that the murderer was most likely a local man, who knew Craven, knew where his office was, and probably saw him enter the side-door entrance to his office next to the antique shop. Fred Craven was only four feet seven inches in height and disabled, and therefore was instantly recognisable to the people of Bingley.
Police believed that the attacker would have been covered in blood after the attack, and with the narrow time frame of the mid-day murder, believed they would make a quick arrest. They issued descriptions of two men who had been seen looking in the window of the antique shop prior to the murder. One man was said to be about five feet four inches in height, wearing a dark jacket and cloth cap, and appeared to be in need a shave. The other description was of a man about age twenty, five feet five inches in height, of slim build, wearing a dark jacket, light-coloured trousers, and a blue denim cap.
Peter Sutcliffe's brother, Michael, aged 16, was held for questioning because of the blue denim cap he usually wore, and at the time of the murder had been spotted in the area.
However, he had been in Wellington Street at the time getting fish and chips from the chip shop close to the murder scene for the men at the factory where he had recently begun work as an apprentice joiner. He was eventually released and was ruled out as having any involvement in the crime.
Michael Bilton, in his book "Wicked Beyond Belief", details features that could point to Peter Sutcliffe, then aged 20, as a possible suspect in the murder.
After Sutcliffe's arrest in 1981, Detective Sergeant Des O'Boyle, thought Sutcliffe may have been responsible for the murder of Fred Craven, given Sutcliffe's propensity for violence, the fact he lived and worked in the town of Bingley, and the similarity of the method of attack on all of the victims.
The book also mentions that one of Sutcliffe's friends at the time, Keith Sudgen, remembered that both Sutcliffe brothers definitely had a blue denim cap, referred in the book as a "Donovan" cap, named after a singer popular of the time.
Another vital point was that Sutcliffe knew Fred Craven, who lived at 23 Cornwall Road, while the Sutcliffe family home was less than one hundred yards away at 57 Cornwall Road.
Peter Sutcliffe had asked Fred Craven's daughter Jennifer to go out with him several times, and had been refused.
Evidence in the Fred Craven case had been lost during an internal reorganisation therefore a direct comparison to confirm or eliminate Sutcliffe could not be done

Next time, the attempted murder of John Tomey in 1967, a taxi driver, who identified Sutcliffe as his attacker.

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