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Suffolk murders 2006

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A variety of drugs on a table

The Life of a Prostitute

A friend of some of the murdered women speaks to Lesley Dolphin about life on the streets of Ipswich, and her experience of being addicted to hard drugs.

Trisha contacted us at the height of the Suffolk murders because she wanted to say it could have so easily have been her daughter, Jenny, in the papers. 

Jenny started to smoke cannabis at about 15 and got in with the wrong crowd.   Her mum Trisha tried everything she could to stop her - keeping her in, stopping treats and even asked social services for help.

'No hope'

Jenny had 2 children and ended up a crack addict - she lost everything, her home, her children and her hope.  At this point, Jenny gave up and started taking heroin as well.

Jenny's mother Trisha looked after her grandchildren during the three years that Jenny was a drug addict. She had almost no contact with her daughter throughout these difficult times, and tried everything she could to avoid thinking about her daughter working on the streets, despite being told by friends that they had seen Jenny in the red light area.

But with the help of the Iceni Project, Jenny got clean, and regained custody of her children, and is today living a happy life - but her mother is aware that it could so easily have been her daughter in the news.

last updated: 20/06/2008 at 15:04
created: 19/12/2006

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esiona
i am performing a peace on prostitution at colege. where i am the prostitute i want to give these women a voice throught performance and i believe it would be wrong of me to do this without knowing what it feels like to be in such a position. i nkow that it wont dramaticaly change but it mite get people thinking. i hope to shock my audience, i want them to feel uncomfortable watching this peace so that it sticks with them. and i want to tell all the girls that dont listen when their mums and dads tell them not to do sumthing, please listen to them they are only doing it to protect you they love you more than you will ever know. and when you go out sumwhere your parents dissaprove let sumone in the family know whrere a sister brother friend so if u happen not to come home htey know where to look for you.with love Esiona

CALLEN [The Voice]
Whenever you get the media or the authorities reporting on Prostitution in all its many forms the working women are labled as victims! Yes there are many victims and a lot are drug related but..there are also many intelligent informed women that choose this as a career to. The love of sex high earnings independance flexability of working hours meeeting interesting men etc etc why dont the media report a more balanced view instead of labelling all as 'victims'. Of course an adult view would be as Eleana says below legalise brothels to make the whole business safer and than maybe there wouldnt be so many 'victims' CALLEN [The Voice]

Eleana
i think that Brothels should be made legal for the safety of the girls. They have a bad enough, and dangerous enough job as it is they could at least be given the respect of being in a safe enviroment when they are working, thats what lawyers, call centre operators get so why shouldnt prostitutes are they not equal to us?

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