A teenage prostitute who worked alongside the five women murdered in Suffolk recalled seeing Annette Nicholls only hours before she went missing.
The 19 year old, who did not want to be named, attended one of the candlelit services held near Ipswich in memory of the dead women.
She said she knew them all from working on the streets and had seen Miss Nicholls, 29, on the night she went missing. Her body was formally identified on Friday after it was recovered from a site near the Old Felixstowe Road in Levington, near Ipswich.
"I saw Annette last Thursday, she went missing that night. She was wearing a black jacket and leggings," she said. "I spoke to her and she was fine."
Miss Nicholls was on her own, walking towards Sainsbury's on the Yarmouth Road in the red light district of Ipswich.
The young prostitute said she was now too scared to go out. "I haven't been on the streets for three weeks, I don't think I will go out again," she said.
"All the girls are scared and hoping that police find the killer. But I also think most of the girls are too scared to go to the police."
"I never do drugs but I know a lot of the girls do," the teenager added.
She said money was being given to prostitutes to help get them out of debt and methadone supplied to those hooked on cocaine and heroin.
The organisation Iceni, which works with people suffering from drug addiction and substance abuse, has been given money from donations gathered at several churches around the town.
