ONE of the alleged victims in the grisly "Camden Ripper" case comes from Dorset, it has emerged.

The parents of Sally Rose White, 38, live in Poole, very close to the Quay.

Sally White, who is understood to have been working in London after leaving this area seeking her fortune, was found dead a year ago in a house in Camden, north London.

Initially, Ms White's death was attributed to natural causes and the police discontinued their investigation.

However, in the past few days, "new and significant medical information" came to light, leading to a Home Office pathologist concluding that Ms White had been unlawfully killed, a Scotland Yard spokesman said. Yesterday her parents were said to be in Spain for the winter.

Their home is a flat in a new, purpose-built block on West Quay Road. Mr White is understood to be a computer expert.

It is also believed that Sally White's father had been up to London several times in the months preceding her death, trying to persuade his daughter to return home to make a fresh start.

Anthony John Hardy, 51, of Hartland, Royal College Street, Camden, has appeared at Hendon Magistrates' Court charged with murdering three women, including Sally Rose White.

Hardy, who had four children, is accused of murdering and dismembering prostitute, Liz Valad, 39, whose torso was discovered in a bin-liner in Hardy's flat.

The day before this grim discovery, a tramp had found parts of Ms Valad's legs in a dustbin.

In court it was revealed that other body parts, which had been discarded in a wheelie-bin, were of New Zealand call-girl Brigitte MacLennan, 34. Ms MacLennan, a mother-of-two, was identified by DNA.

Ms Valad's Iranian-born father, Hassan Valad, was a university professor. His marriage in the US to Jackie Berwick lasted only two years.

After that, Mrs Valad returned to her native Britain and lives in Nottingham, working as a part-time receptionist at a car-dealership, having re-booted her life. Her partner has told of how Mrs Valad desperately tried to wean her daughter off prostitution.