Steve Wright, the man convicted for murdering five women during one of the most intensive killing sprees in British criminal history, will spend the rest of his life in jail, a judge at Ipswich Crown Court ruled today.
Wright (49), a forklift truck driver, had asphyxiated the five prostitutes and dumped their bodies at rural locations around the town of Ipswich within the space of just 10 days.
Steve Wright: convicted of murdering five women
Yesterday, after two days of deliberations, the jury of nine men and three women found Wright guilty of murdering Gemma Adams (25), Tania Nicol (19), Anneli Alderton (24), Paula Clennell, (24), and Annette Nicholls (29).
Sentencing Wright to five life sentences without parole, Mr Justice Gross said: "It is right you should spend your whole life in prison. This was a targeted campaign of murder."
Wright murdered the women while his 63-year-old partner Pamela was working night shifts.
Jurors heard that the naked bodies of the women, who all worked as prostitutes in Ipswich, were found in isolated locations near the town between December 2nd and December 12th, 2006.
Prosecutors said Wright, who lived in the red light district, "systematically selected and murdered" women after stalking streets around his home. A pathologist said the evidence showed all the women had been choked or strangled.