What hideous patterns we humans get ourselves trapped into! According to the more 'serious' papers (my only source of information, God help me!)there is every form of aberration involved in this story:

-Child abuse (previous research had shown that many 'sex workers' had suffered some sort of abuse as children).

-Drug abuse and dependency.

-Prostitution.

-Male clients of prostitutes, who have no respect for themselves or the women they buy sex from.

-A police force and law enforcement agencies who seem completely unable to either deal with the drug problem or to protect the prostitutes from casual day-to-day violence (although they probably regularly hassle them - which does nothing to resolve the situation).

And into this well understood but completely unresolved mess comes some monster from the extreme tails of the 'bell curve' who manages to pick off far too many victims before he's finally caught.
And the only ones to benefit from this horror are a prurient and gloating media. Oh yes, and the 'holier-than-thou' crowd who delight in telling us that 'prostitutes-are-human-too-you-know' (and before one of you starts on me, yes, I know they are and they all deserve a full and happy life free from the threat of violence or murder).
It seems to be that several people have to die before the supine and complacent authorities in this country stir into action - then they rush around like 'blue-arsed flies'.
I suppose that once the present furore has died down it will be back to 'business-as-usual' until the next monster rises from the blackest depths of the human psyche.