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Kill Total: |
5 |
Kill place: |
Suffolk |
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Kill date: |
December 2006
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Victim(s): |
Gemma Adams 25,
Tania Nicol 19,
Anneli Alderton 24,
Annette Nicholl 29,
Paula Clennell 24 |
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Date of Birth: |
1958 |
Marital Status: |
Single |
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AKA: |
Suffolk Murders |
Occupation: |
Fork lift truck driver |
Ms Adams' body was discovered in a brook at Thorpes hill, near Hintlesham at 11:50am on Saturday 2nd December 2006. Ms Adams disappeared after leaving home on Wednesday 15th November to go to work. She was reported missing by her boyfriend. Her body was discovered by a member of the public. A post mortem was carried out, but they could not confirm a cause of death, further tests have been carried out. Police have confirmed that Gemma was NOT sexually assaulted.
Ms Nicol was found on Friday 8th December near Copdock Mill, by police divers, having disappeared on 30th October, she left to go to work in the red light district about 10:30pm and was not seen again. Tania was reported missing on Wednesday 1st November, her mother reported her missing after not seeing her for 2 days. She was discovered in the same stream as Gemma Adams. Gemma and Tania knew each other and frequently worked the same "patch". Their naked bodies were found about two miles apart.
On Sunday 10th December the body of a third woman was found. Her naked body was discovered by a passing motorist in woods near Nacton, close to Ipswich.
On Tuesday 12th December Suffolk police confirmed the third body as Anneli Alderton aged 24, from Colchester, Essex, also a known prostitute, she had been strangled.
Also on 12th December police confirmed that at 3:05pm they received a call from a member of the public who had been walking along Old Felixstowe Road they was a naked woman roughly 20 feet from the roadside. About 40 minutes later at 3:48pm the police helicopter spotted a further body only a few hindered yards from the first. Suffolk police said that although they have no evidence to support, they strongly believe these bodies to be connected to the first, making a total of five bodies. The new discoveries are suspected to be 2 girls previously reported missing, Annette Nicholls, aged 29, and Paula Clennell, aged 24.
On Thursday 14th December police confirmed the identity of the fourth victim, and confirmed that it is in fact the body of Paula Clennell, aged 24, the post mortem revealed she died of compression to the neck, she was strangled. Paula was reported missing, and was last seen at about at 12:20am on Sunday 10th December on Handford Road near to its junction with Burlington Road in Ipswich Suffolk.
Tom Stephens was arrested on Monday 18th December 2006, Stephens was a Supermarket worker at Tesco in Martlesham.
At 5am on Tuesday 19th December 2006, a second man, Stephen Wright aged 48 from London road in Ipswich, was arrested on suspicion of murder.
At 10:15pm on Thursday 21st December 2006. Police released Tom Stevens on police bail, pending further enquiries, and have charged with 5 murders, the second man, Stephen Wright.
Steven Wright a fork lift truck driver from Ipswich was charged with 5 murders at Ipswich magistrates court on Friday 22nd December 2006. He was held in custody to appear at Ipswich Crown court on 2nd January 2007. In court on 2nd January he was remanded in custody to re-appear in May 2007.
In 2001, Steve Wright worked as a barman at
the Brook Hotel in Felixstowe. He sacked for stealing
hundreds of pounds from the till, for which he was ordered
to carry out 100 hours community service.
It was a DNA sample taken at the time of that conviction
which led to police matching samples taken from the five
dead women.
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1st May 2007 Wright pleaded not
guilty at Ipswich crown court in front t of Mr
Justice Calvert-Smith..
14th January 2008
Trial has started and jury sworn in.
It was revealed during the trial that 2 of
the bodies had been laid out in a crucifix position when
the bodies were found.
21st February 2008
Steve Wright is found guilty of murdering 5
women in Ipswich.
The jury took just eight hours to find
Wright guilty on all five murders.
22nd February 2008
The trial judge, has sentence
Wright to life imprisonment.
Sitting at Ipswich Crown
Court, the judge ordered 49-year-old Wright to serve the
maximum sentence.
He said: "This was a
targeted campaign of murder. It is right you should spend
your whole life in prison."
Steve Wright sat
emotionless as prosecutors asked the judge to ensure he is
never allowed out of jail.
Other Cases
The police, as is usual will now look into
other deaths that could be connected to Wright. There are
several cases of prostitutes and young girls goring
missing, in areas where Wright is known to have been, but
as Wright protested his innocence throughout his trial it
is unlikely any confessions will follow.
In 1992, Natalie Pearman,
16, was found strangled after disappearing from the
red-light area of Norwich. A year later Mandy
Duncan, 26, of Woodbridge, Suffolk, vanished while working
as a prostitute in Ipswich. Further, In 2000, Kellie
Pratt, 29, vanished from the red-light area of Norwich and
in 2002 Michelle Bettles, 22, was found strangled three
days after disappearing from the red-light area of
Norwich.
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