British Serial Killer 'Suffolk Strangler' Pleads Guilty to 1999 Murders

Illustration of a judge's hammer Pexels Ekaterina Bolovtsova

JAKARTA - A British serial killer dubbed the 'Suffolk Strangler' by the media after killing five young women two decades ago, on Monday pleaded guilty to another murder that took place 27 years ago.

Steve Wright, who is serving a life sentence with no prospect of parole for murdering the women in 2006, appeared at London's Old Bailey, admitting the abduction and murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall in 1999.

Wright, 67, also pleaded guilty to attempted kidnapping of a 22-year-old woman the day before Hall's murder. He will be sentenced on Friday.

"Justice has finally been achieved for Victoria Hall after 26 years," Samantha Woolley of the Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement, launching Al Arabiya from Reuters (3/3).

Wright was convicted in 2008 of murdering five women who worked as prostitutes in the town of Ipswich, northeast of London in Suffolk.

He was sentenced to life in prison, meaning he will never be released from prison, for what the judge described as a "campaign of targeted killings".

Wright has consistently denied the allegations although his DNA was found on three victims and blood stains from two victims were found on his jacket at his home. The bodies of his victims were found within 10 days around Ipswich.