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'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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Daily Express broke the news in United Kingdom on Monday, February 2, 2026.
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