US Edition'Suffolk strangler' Steve Wright pleads guilty to murder of teen in 1999
Steve Wright admitted Victoria Hall's murder and the attempted kidnap of Emily Doherty, adding to his five previous murder convictions in a case reopened in 2019.
- At the Old Bailey on Monday, Wright pleaded guilty to murdering Victoria Hall and the attempted kidnap of Emily Doherty, then 22.
- Victoria Hall vanished on September 19, 1999, after leaving the Bandbox nightclub in Felixstowe; her body was found five days later in a water-filled ditch in Creeting St Peter near Stowmarket.
- Forensic evidence shows DNA and fibres linked to Wright, and prosecutors highlighted all six victims were asphyxiated and left in similar isolated places.
- Mr Justice Bennathan said he will sentence Wright on Friday to give Ms Hall's family the chance to attend and submit victim impact statements, with Gemma Algar and Emily Doherty also submitting statements, prosecutors confirmed.
- Wright is already serving a whole-life term for five earlier victims, and the 2019 investigation reopened notes how his crimes terrorised Ipswich over six weeks.
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‘Suffolk Strangler’ pleads guilty to 1999 teen murder, decades before Ipswich killings
LONDON, Feb 2 — British serial killer Steve Wright yesterday pleaded guilty to the kidnapping and murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall in 1999, years before killing five other women, Anadolu Ajansi reported.During a court hearing, Wright, 67 — also known in British media as the Suffolk Strangler — admitted to abducting and killing Hall, according to a statement from prosecutors.He also pleaded guilty to the attempted kidnapping of Emily Doherty, …
17-year-old Victoria Hall disappeared after a night out in 1999. Now British serial killer Steve Wright admits to kidnapping and murdering her. He has previously been convicted of the murder of five other women.
A 17-Year-Old Was Killed in 1999. Now, Authorities Say She Was Victim of Infamous 'Suffolk Strangler'
Convicted in 2008 of murdering five young women in England, Steve Wright, 67, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering Victoria Hall, 17, in 1999A sketch of Steve Wright (from left) in court, where he pleaded guilty Press Association via APNEED TO KNOWIn 1999, Victoria Hall, 17, of Trimley St. Mary in England vanished after walking home from a club with a friendSeven years later, fear swept through the town of Ipswich when five young women wer…
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