WITH its decaying walls, litter-strewn pavements and boarded-up windows clad in graffiti, Paradise Street in Bradford couldn’t look further from its namesake.
The lane runs off Sunbridge Road, an area of the West Yorkshire city notorious as a red light zone and hotspot for prostitutes.
According to residents the commercial district – once prowled by serial killers Stephen Griffith, known as the Crossbow Cannibal, and the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe – has deteriorated further in recent years.
Barry Brewerton, 57, who has worked at MS Accident Repair Centre – a garage round the corner from Paradise Street – for 41 years, says he regularly sees sex workers brazenly going about their business at all hours.
He tells The Sun: “A big problem around here is the prostitutes and the kerb crawlers.