
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, June 18, 1993                   TAG: 9306180182
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LONDON                                LENGTH: Short

SERIAL KILLER STALKS GAY MEN IN BRITAIN

A serial killer stalking London's homosexual community has murdered five men, including an American, and news reports Thursday said he has told police he will keep on killing a victim a week.

Scotland Yard confirmed that a man has telephoned them anonymously with precise information about all the murders. The victims, aged 33 to 45, were all killed in their own homes, between March 8 and Tuesday. Police said at least four were homosexuals and three carried the AIDS virus.

In each case, the killer is believed to have struck up a casual acquaintance in a pub or club. All were killed in "intimate circumstances," said the Gay London Policing Group, a gay men's organization.

"It's hard to say whether it's a gay man himself who's committing the murders, or someone who needs to seek some kind of revenge or show hatred against gay men," said Paul Duffy, a spokesman for the group.

by CNB