SERIOUS questions must today be asked of our police. Britain's most notorious serial killer was spotted in York at the weekend and yet the city constabulary failed to apprehend him.

After fooling the Greater Manchester CID into believing he was dead, Richard Hillman must have fled from Weatherfield over the Pennines. As our photograph, snatched outside a Micklegate nightspot proves, he then tried to do away with a York reveller.

We say put this dastardly character behind bars. And stop buying him drinks when he is there.

Updated: 10:22 Monday, March 17, 2003