Suzy Lamplugh murder suspect John Cannan broke promise to help find the missing estate agent
The seven VHS tapes revealing the bombshell interviews found in a council tip were handed over by a member of the public
HEARTLESS Suzy Lamplugh suspect John Cannan vowed to help her distraught mum find daughter but cruelly refused to answer questions from cops probing her murder, in bombshell interview.
Arrogant sex killer Cannan, 64, offered the ray of hope to Suzy's campaigning mother Diana when he was quizzed by police in 2000 when cold case cops re-investigated the case as part of an operation codenamed Phoebus.
Amazingly the seven VHS tapes were found dumped in a council run tip in south London and handed to The Sun on Sunday by a concerned member of the public who was shocked when he discovered what they contained.
Questioned and Hammersmith police station in west London, over three days, Cannan even offers to take a lie detector test and a truth drug before offering a glimmer of hope to the Lamplugh family before brazenly taking it away.
Evil Cannan tells detectives:''''I've always said that I will help Mrs Lamplugh in any way I possibly can and I've given my word, I won't break that word, I will keep that word. Mrs Lamplugh is very important, she obviously is but this isn't just about Mrs Lamplugh.
''I have a mother, I have a daughter and I have family of my own, whom, I love and who love me to. I have right to protect my own legal position if I genuinely feel that the state is engaged in improper activities and I believe that you are.'' He then menacingly warns cops:''You are pushing me into a corner.''
He then steadfastly refuses to answer police questions despite them pointing out he has just offered to help the Lamplugh family - he even attacks Diana, who died in 2011 by saying ''she had surrounded herself with people who do her no favours''.
Diana went to her grave convinced Cannan was involved in the 1986 abduction and murder of estate agent Suzy who vanished after going to meet a mystery man called Mr Kipper at a house she was selling in Fulham.
Cannan told cops Diana had ''already convicted me''of murdering Suzy and even after three jail interviews where he is serving life for the murder of Shirley Banks in 1987, the attempted kidnap of Julia Holman the previous night and the rape of a woman in Reading a year earlier continues to deny any involvement.
At one point in the tapes Cannan confesses: "I have committed crime, I have done many things wrong in my life, things that believe me I am genuinely sorry for, one or two things I haven't even been caught for.''
Well spoken Cannan even jokes with cops recording the interviews if they can make him a ''Genesis tape''.
After Operation Phoebus ended, the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was insufficient evidence to charge Cannan. But in November 2002 the Met took the unusual step of naming him as their prime suspect for Suzy's murder.
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