Two jailed for attack on Crossbow Cannibal victim in Bradford

Slovakian national Jaroslav Balog and Czech national Jiri Soukal repeatedly kicked Suzanne Blamires as she lay on a street in the city in 2009, Bradford Crown Court was told.

The two men were both jailed for 18 months by the judge, Recorder Peter Babb, after they admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The attack on prostitute Miss Blamires took place on December 13, 2009.

This was five months before she was killed by Griffiths who shot a crossbow bolt into her head before dismembering her body. She was 36 years old.

Griffiths was told he will never be released from prison last year by a judge who heard how he butchered and dismembered three prostitutes in his Bradford flat.

Miss Blamires was his last victim and her death was shockingly captured on CCTV footage in Griffiths’s block of flats. Her body was found in the River Aire at Shipley, West Yorkshire, in dozens of pieces.

Only a small part of another of Griffiths’s victims, Shelley Armitage, 31, has ever been found and there has been no trace of the body of his other victim, Susan Rushworth, 43.

On Friday, the court heard how a witness outside the Sunbridge Mission, in Bradford’s red-light district, heard her screams in the early hours of December 13, 2009. When a woman responded she saw the two men attacking Miss Blamires. She suffered a number of injuries.

Balog, 34, of Lidget Place, Bradford, and Soukal, 22, of Stanmore Place, Bradford, stood in the dock where they were assisted by interpreters.