Figg was the probably the first victim of Jack The Stripper – a serial killer who terrorised Notting Hill’s red-light district for six years, asphyxiating up to eight prostitutes and dumping six of them naked. Some had lost their teeth; a couple were covered in paint flecks; a few had their underwear stuffed down their throats; all were under 5ft 2in. Although, due to some odd quirk of history, he isn’t as notorious as his namesake, he does share the trait of never having been found.
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Bad Penny Blues is concerned with power – it features a character based on notoriously bent copper Harold ‘Tanky’ Challenor. Equally disquietingly, it speculates on a tenuous link between the stripper murders and the Profumo affair; several of the girls were involved in vice rings frequented by Profumo; one of them, Hannah Tailford, was made to have sex with a man dressed as a gorilla at a high-society party.
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