Dr. Nat Carey, pathologist who carried out post-mortem examinations on the three murdered prostitutes, will examine the other two bodies. Vice-chair of the Association of Chief Police Officers homicide working group, Dave Johnston, has been brought in to assess and advise on the progress of the inquiry. He said: ?This ranks amongst the most serious and resource intensive inquiries that I have ever been involved in.?

He said the deaths of the first three prostitutes have been classed as murder, while the other two have been linked to the murder inquiry.

Mr Johnston added: ?(Suffolk Police) will be under considerable pressure because alongside these five murders they have to continue to provide day-to-day policing.?

?Understandable fear?

Home Secretary John Reid and Downing Street have contacted Suffolk?s Chief Constable Alastair McWhirter to make sure he has enough resources to deal with the current murder inquiry. The Prime Minister?s spokesman said officials were assured McWhirter was ?happy? with the level of resources he had. In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister said there was ?entirely understandable fear? in the community in Ipswich and said all MPs would want to send their sympathy to the people of Suffolk and the relatives of the victims.

The site where the two bodies were found on Tuesday is off the main A14 trunk road between Ipswich and Felixstowe docks close to a railway line, the Orwell estuary and a marina. It is near to where the body of Alderton, who had moved to the area from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, was found on Sunday in Nacton.

The body of Adams was found on 2 December in woodland at Hintlesham, on the outskirts of Ipswich. She had last been seen on 15 November.

On 8 December the body of Nicol was found in nearby Copdock. She was the first to go missing and had last been seen on 30 October.

DEFIANCE

Prostitute keeps working despite friends? killings

Lindsey, a 20-year-old prostitute in Ipswich, huddles into her furry red hood as she tells how she is still working to feed her huge drug habit, even amid fears of a serial killer on the loose.

Defying police pleas for sex workers to stay indoors after the deaths of five women, the petite blonde was the only one openly touting for business in the red light district late yesterday night.Even she took the precaution of bringing along a chatty young man who describes himself as her ?minder? to protect her. But this was Lindsey?s only concession to safety, despite her having been close friends with the first two women to be murdered ? Gemma Adams, 25, and 19-year-old Tania Nicol.

The mother-of-one says that she has a 300-pound (446-euro, 590-dollar) per day crack cocaine and heroin habit which she can only feed by turning tricks at 30 pounds a time...