DETECTIVES investigating the murders of three prostitutes in the Ipswich area have found two more bodies.

Officers were alerted this afternoon by a member of the public.

One body was found near Levington, Suffolk, a village about five miles south of Ipswich.

Minutes later a police helicopter spotted a second corpse nearby.

The detective leading the murder inquiry, Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull told reporters the natural assumption was that the bodies were those of missing prostitutes Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls.

*Full story in Wednesday's Northern Echo.