U.K. Man Convicted Of Prostitute Murders
Steve Wright Terrified English Town When 5 Women Were Murdered In 10 Days In 2006
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Stephan Wright, a 48 year-old former dock worker from Ipswich, has been charged with the Jack-the-Ripper-style murders of five prostitutes in recent weeks. Mark Phillips reports.
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CBS News' Larry Miller reports that there's fear on the streets of Ipswich, England. Authorities believe a serial killer is targeting prostitutes and three bodies have already been found.
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A woman reads the front page of Britain's Sun newspaper in London, Dec. 20, 2006. The paper featuring pictures of a man named by the paper as 48 year-old Stephen Wright. (BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/Getty Images)
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This is an undated handout image released by Britain's Suffolk Police of Steve Wright who was Thursday Feb. 21, 2008 found guilty at Ipswich Crown Court of murdering five prostitutes. A jury has convicted Wright of killing five women who worked as prostitutes. Steve Wright faces life in jail for the murders, which shocked Britain. Forty-nine-year-old Wright had admitted knowing the dead women but denied killing them. (AP Photo./Suffolk Police, HO)
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Top left to right, Anneli Alderton and Gemma Adams, bottom left to right, Tania Nicol, Annette Nicholls and Paula Clennell. (AP / CBS)
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Flowers left in memory of five murdered women, outside a temporary police station near where prostitutes work in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, Dec. 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Steve Wright showed no emotion as the jury at Ipswich Crown Court found him guilty of murdering Gemma Adams, 25; Tania Nicol, 19; Anneli Alderton, 24; Paula Clennell, 24; and Annette Nicholls, 29.
Wright, 49, faces life in jail for the murders, which made headlines in Britain more than a year ago. He is due to be sentenced Friday.
The women's naked bodies were found in isolated areas of Ipswich, in eastern England, over a 10-day period in December 2006.
Wright had admitted visiting prostitutes and knowing the dead women but denied killing them. But prosecutors said blood, fibers and other forensic evidence linked him to the crimes.
The prosecution said Wright "systematically selected and murdered" all five women over a six-and-a-half-week period, reports the BBC.
Suffolk police began an inquiry after Nicol, 19, vanished in late October 2006.
The killings terrified the town, and stories about the deaths were splashed across British newspapers and television screens for weeks. They also prompted a manhunt involving more than 500 police officers from more than 30 forces.
He left two of the bodies in a cruciform position with arms outstretched, reports the London Globe and Mail.
Prosecution spokesman Robert Sadd said "we will probably never know why" Wright killed the women.
Wright, labelled the “Suffolk Strangler” by the media, had undertaken his campaign of violence while his partner Pamela - who was unaware of his trysts with prostitutes - was working night shifts, reports the Globe and Mail.
Five other women have been killed or vanished in East Anglia in the past 16 years, although detectives have never publicly linked Wright to any of the killings, reports the U.K. Times.
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Sounds like this guy has serious woman issues - and it''s weird how his "partner" had no idea!
Is your point that we shouldn''t murder or fornicate? I guess that''s what you''re getting at. In that case, I agree. But if you are saying that the fornication justifies murder I disagree. If you''re saying that the convict should not be killed I firmly disagree, although I believe that is a moot point in England. Murdering maniacs should be studied, analyzed and euthanized.
Posted by qazi63 at 03:22 PM : Feb 21, 2008
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