The street corner is now home to a mobile cafe run by Teen Challenge, a charity trying to help working girls out of addiction and prostitution. If you are on heroin or crack, all you care about is your next bag. She waved but didn’t come over as she didn’t want to miss a punter. “The last time I saw her she was working. She added: “I knew all the girls who Griffiths killed and Shelley was a good friend. Julie, 31, who is now clean after a decade on drugs, spoke out while visiting a street corner where she once sold sex to buy heroin. “By phoning punters to sell sex rather than meeting them on the streets, these girls are robbing themselves of those precious few seconds of basic instinct.” But at least I could walk away if I really didn’t like the look of someone. “When I was on the street, I was beaten up several times and had a bottle smashed over my head. Everything is set up in advance so they don’t have any way of opting out. “What is frightening is that most of the girls are using their phones to contact men. Julie, who became hooked on heroin at just 19, said: “The murders have changed things. Julie, a former prostitute who worked alongside Griffiths’ victim Shelley Armitage, revealed how city sex workers still fear the killer. Those who still brave the streets are selling their bodies for as little as £10 a time to feed drug habits. They now blindly book clients on their mobiles – robbing them of the chance to size up a punter in public and turn them down if threatened. Stephen Griffiths’ triple murder spree has driven Bradford’s red-light district underground with prostitutes living in fear of a copycat killer. VICE girls in the city stalked by the Crossbow Cannibal are facing terrifying new risks even though he has been caged for life.
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