THE mother of murdered North-East prostitute Vicky Glass said today that she remains haunted by her death.

Debbie Goodall revealed that the discovery of five prostitutes' bodies near Ipswich has brought the painful memories flooding back - adding that her heart goes out to their families.

"The news of the killings in Ipswich came as a shock and it made me feel sick to my stomach. I cried as I watched the news and kept thinking of Vicky," she added.

"It brought everything back to me because everything is so similar to the way Vicky was found.

"Vicky's death haunts me every day. You gain an inner strength to go on but I think about her every day and I will do until I die.

"As I watched I thought: 'Is the same person who killed Vicky responsible? Could he have moved? Is he travelling from one area to another?' Vicky's naked body was found on November 3, 2000, on the North Yorks Moors, close to Danby.

The 21-year-old from Stockton went missing while working in Middlesbrough the previous September, but her killer has never been caught.

Mrs Goodall, who has two other children, said: "I know how the families of those girls are feeling now and my heart goes out to them. I'm thinking of them and I just hope they get strength to carry on.

"These girls, like Vicky, were brought down by drugs. It decimates lives. One minute they are happy young women and the next they are dragged down. It devastates everyone.

"With drugs you are fighting evil. It gets a hold on people. Vicky was brought up on love as no doubt were these other girls.

"We did everything we could and the parents and families of these girls will have done too. But Vicky was so trusting and she got in with the wrong crowd.

"It's a lonely life for girls who are driven onto the street by the need to fund their habit - and that makes them vulnerable."

The man leading the manhunt in Suffolk - one of the biggest since the Yorkshire Ripper - said today that the five prostitutes had been dumped south of Ipswich after being killed elsewhere.

Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull said that officers had yet to discover where the women had been killed.

"What we are dealing with appears to be deposition sites where the bodies have been dumped and left," he added.

A number of people are helping police with their inquiry but no-one has yet been arrested.

Officers are currently trawling through 2,199 calls made in five hours yesterday and will be working "24-7" on the investigation.

Preliminary findings for the cause of death for Gemma Adams, 25, and Tania Nicol, 19, were inconclusive and further tests are being carried out.

Det Chief Supt Gull said he had been in a meeting dealing with the murders of Miss Adams, Miss Nicol and Anneli Alderton, 24, when he heard the news that two more bodies had been found.

"When we heard this tragic news, there was a stunned silence."

Police believe the latest bodies are those of Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29, who were previously reported missing.

Mrs Goodall said today that she did not think of Vicky as a prostitute - adding that the families of the women in Ipswich would be the same.

"They will think of them as daughters, sisters, nieces and granddaughters.

"Those memories will be precious and it is something to hold onto over the years."

It gives you strength and for me it feeds the hope that I have one day to see Vicky's killer in court.

"I want to see his face and to see justice be done. He has got away with this for six years but I hope that someone's conscience will have been pricked by these terrible events in Ipswich and they will come forward.

"Even after all this time I believe there is someone out there who knows what happened and I say to them: 'Please, please speak to the police.' "I am serving a life sentence. Vicky's death is something that will not go away but my hope is to see her killer in court before I die. That hope keeps me focused. It may take years but I have got to think it will happen tomorrow.

"But in the meantime I'm thinking of those poor girls in Ipswich - and what their families are going through. No one knows that unless it has happened to them."