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22/02/2008
Serial Killer Jailed For Life
Serial killer Steve Wright has been jailed for life for murdering five women.
Yesterday, Wright was convicted of killing Gemma Adams, 25, Tania Nicol, 19, Anneli Alderton, 24, Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29.
Wright denied murdering the women, but admitted to having sex with four of the five women.
The judge at Ipswich Crown Court, Mr Justice Gross, said he must serve a full-life term.
The jury took less than eight hours to deliver their verdict.
According to a number of reports police are now considering Wright as a possible suspect in the suspected murder of Suzy Lamplugh.
Lamplugh was 25 when she met Wright while working on the QE2 cruise ship. She went missing in July 1986 after leaving her office in Fulham, west London to meet a mysterious "Mr Kipper". She was declared dead in 1994.
Wright's ex-wife Diane Cole, 53, told the Daily Mirror on Friday that she had checked her diary and noticed Wright had "shore leave" at that time.
The remains of the five women, who all worked as prostitutes in Ipswich, were found in isolated spots near the town between December 2 and December 12, 2006.
Wright, who pleaded not guilty to murder, admitted picking up all the women on the nights they disappeared.
(CD)
Yesterday, Wright was convicted of killing Gemma Adams, 25, Tania Nicol, 19, Anneli Alderton, 24, Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29.
Wright denied murdering the women, but admitted to having sex with four of the five women.
The judge at Ipswich Crown Court, Mr Justice Gross, said he must serve a full-life term.
The jury took less than eight hours to deliver their verdict.
According to a number of reports police are now considering Wright as a possible suspect in the suspected murder of Suzy Lamplugh.
Lamplugh was 25 when she met Wright while working on the QE2 cruise ship. She went missing in July 1986 after leaving her office in Fulham, west London to meet a mysterious "Mr Kipper". She was declared dead in 1994.
Wright's ex-wife Diane Cole, 53, told the Daily Mirror on Friday that she had checked her diary and noticed Wright had "shore leave" at that time.
The remains of the five women, who all worked as prostitutes in Ipswich, were found in isolated spots near the town between December 2 and December 12, 2006.
Wright, who pleaded not guilty to murder, admitted picking up all the women on the nights they disappeared.
(CD)
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