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Man accused of Ipswich murders educated in Malta
By MaltaMedia News
Feb 9, 2008 - 12:44:15 PM
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The man who stands accused of murdering five Ipswich prostitutes in December 2006 had been educated in Malta and Singapore after his parents divorced when he was a child.
49-year-old Steve Wright denies murdering 19-year-old Tania Nicol, 25-year-old Gemma Adams, 29-year-old Annette Nicholls, 24-year-old Anneli Anderton and Paula Clennell. The bodies of all five women were found in isolated locations near the Ipswich over a 10-day period in December 2006.
Independent.co.uk said that Mr Wright entered the witness box on Friday to tell jurors of his history of failed marriages, bankruptcy and a fractured childhood.
The defendant said he left school at the age of sixteen without any qualifications and joined the merchant navy as a steward. He began the first of two marriages shortly afterwards. This lasted for about eight years. After being made redundant from the QE2, he began working in the pub trade, managing premises in the South-east and East Anglia. He also remarried but at the same time entered into a year-long affair with a woman in London.
Mr Wright told Ipswich Crown Court that he had been using prostitutes since joining the merchant navy in his early 20s. However, he insisted he had not picked up prostitutes in the Suffolk town until two and a half weeks after moving into a flat in the heart of the red-light district with his partner, Pam Wright, in October 2006.
It was two weeks after this that the first of the women Mr Wright is accused of killing, 19-year-old Tania Nicol, went missing. He admitted it was "possible" that Ms Nicol had been in his car the night she went missing, but denies having anything to do with her death.
The jury was told he would take the women to ‘any secluded area or an industrial estate’.
Prosecutors say fibres from his Ford Mondeo car, his tracksuit and other possessions were found on the bodies of the five women and could only been placed there shortly before their deaths.
In 2003, Mr Wright admitted stealing £80 from a bar where he was working and it was a DNA sample taken in connection with that conviction which led to police matching samples taken from the dead women.
Source:
Independent.co.uk
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