Victoria Hall had left her home on the evening of 18 September 1999 for a night out with her friend in Felixstowe.<\/span> Photograph: Suffolk constabulary\/PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIn legal argument last month, the prosecution highlighted similarities between the murders, pointing out that all six women were asphyxiated and left in similar places and that they shared a physical type.<\/p>\n
The prosecution also argued for the trial to include evidence from a sex worker who knew Wright, who would say he was familiar with the area linked to Victoria\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n
Victoria, from Trimley St Mary in Suffolk, had left her home on the evening of 18 September 1999 for a night out with her friend, Algar, at the Bandbox nightclub in Felixstowe.<\/p>\n
Five days later her body was found in a ditch in Creeting St Peter, about 25 miles from where she was last seen. A year after her murder, her parents, Graham and Lorinda Hall, had appealed for help to bring her murderer to justice.<\/p>\n
Graham Hall said at the time he remained optimistic, saying: \u201cWhoever did this must be under as much pressure as we are. They have got it on their conscience all of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lorinda Hall died last December, before her daughter\u2019s killer could be brought to justice. Algar had been due to give evidence in Wright\u2019s trial, having said goodnight to her friend shortly before she vanished.<\/p>\n
In 2006, local people in Ipswich suffered six weeks of terror while detectives hunted for the serial killer in their midst. On 30 October that year, Tania Nicol, 19, vanished from Ipswich\u2019s red-light area, followed by Gemma Adams, 25, about two weeks later, triggering a major inquiry.<\/p>\n
Adams\u2019s body was found in a stream at Hintlesham on 2 December, followed by the discovery ofNicol\u2019s remains in a pond at Copdock on 8 December.<\/p>\n
Two days later, the body of Anneli Alderton, 24, was found in woods at Nacton, and sex workers in the town were urged to stay off the streets. On 12 December, the bodies of Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29, were found near woods at Levington.<\/p>\n
Two of the women, who were all sex workers in Ipswich\u2019s red-light area, were laid out in a crucifix shape, which was described as \u201cmacabre\u201d. Wright was arrested at his Ipswich home a week later.<\/p>\n
Pathology evidence suggested all the women had been choked or strangled.<\/p>\n
During a trial at Ipswich crown court in 2008, prosecutors said Wright \u201csystematically selected and murdered\u201d the women after stalking streets around his home.<\/p>\n
Wright was seen cruising the red-light district around the time each of the women vanished. DNA and fibres linked to his clothes, house and car were found on the women.<\/p>\n
Wright, a former steward on the QE2, admitted picking up the women for sex on the nights they vanished but denied any involvement in their deaths.<\/p>\n
Following his conviction for five murders, the victims\u2019 relatives \u2013 and Wright\u2019s father, Conrad \u2013 said he should have been executed. Handing him a rare whole-life order, Mr Justice Gross said the killings involved pre-meditation and planning.<\/p>\n
He said \u201cdrugs and prostitution\u201d put the five women at risk, but told Wright: \u201cNeither drugs nor prostitution killed them. You did. Why you did it may never be known.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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