UK - Victoria 'Vicky' Hall, 17, Trimley St Mary, Suffolk, 18 Sep 1999 *arrest 2023* *trial 2026*

[TheRockingRev]

On Wednesday, he was remanded in custody pending a trial fixed for 2 February 2026 at the Old Bailey.

Mr Wright, who appeared via video link for the short hearing, is yet to enter a plea to a charge of the attempted kidnap of a second person in Felixstowe

Man in court over death of Victoria Hall in 1999

The accused is remanded in custody in the case of Victoria Hall, who vanished after a night out.

www.bbc.com

Maybe next year this one will finally get a definitive close.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Mr Justice Bennathan confirmed the trial fixture for February 2 2026 at the Old Bailey.

He said a further case management hearing will be held on a date to be fixed administratively

Man in court over kidnap and murder of teenage girl 25 years ago

Steve Wright pleaded not guilty at a previous hearing to the kidnap and murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall in Suffolk in 1999.

www.expressandstar.com

 

[hannah246]

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[Rookie D]

The thing about serial killers is that they hardly ever confess.
It's the only way they can retain any sort of control and power after they've been caught.
Most of them have some kind of "God" complex and they're bereft of any empathy or compassion whatsoever.
You could harshly interrogate most serial killers intensely for days on end, and they still wouldn't tell their secrets or relinquish their power.
Sadly, it's what makes them what they are.
Sickening.

 

[Rookie D]

I do wonder what made him kill all those people since he didn't sexually assault any of them. What sort of motive could there possibly be? I understand some people are just psychopaths but there's got to be a trigger from his past surely? You don't just wake up one day and decide to start murdering women.

A man who goes out and commits these sort of heinous crimes against women, isn't necessarily after sex.
He wants power and domination over another human being.
There are many serial killers who have targeted women, but have not been driven to sexually assault them because that's not what gives them their kick.
They are most interested in seeing a woman's reaction to being held at knifepoint, or are driven by the reaction of their victim begging them to stop etc...
It's a misconception to think that serial killers are primarily driven by sex; it's not the case.
Of course, sometimes there are clear sexual motives, but they make up the minority of cases.
It's predominantly all about the power and control they can have over another human's life.
Deeply sickening and disturbing indeed

 

[Rookie D]

There were quite a lot of murders and disappearances in Norwich and Ipswich in the 90s and early 00s when Wright was around. Yet once he was imprisoned they seemed to stop. Natalie Pearman (1992), Kellie Pratt (2000), Amanda Duncan (1993), Michelle Bettles (2002) to name a few. All fit his M.O. Be a bit of a coincidence if at the same time Wright lived in the area there was another serial killer living there who happened to have the same M.O, who then decided to stop once Wright got banged up. Norfolk police have always shown little to no interest in the cases though. Same with mainstream media for some reason. Didn't Wrights dad live in Trimley? Wright was definitely familiar with the area at least.

The issue is that once someone like Wright is caught, sentenced and imprisoned, there then becomes very little momentum to then pursue any further possible murders.
The thought process being that the perp has been caught, so let's move on.
A completely wrong way to think, because all it does is deny the families of other unsolved murders; that have almost certainly been committed by the same man, a chance to have justice.
The CPS are hardly interested once a guilty sentence has been confirmed and the culprit imprisoned.

That's why justice is more about obtaining a guilty conviction for at least something, than it is to do with knowing the whole truth and finding closure for all those other victims who have slipped through the net.

There are likely scores of "unsolved cold cases" whereby the real culprit is almost certainly known, but which have never been officially connected to a perp who's already serving time for other murder/murders. The police simply don't have the resources, or mandate to keep looking and investigating once a perp has already been convicted.

The Yorkshire ripper was a prime example of that. There are certainly more victims that should have been officially linked to him, but once they got him imprisoned, nobody in authority really seemed to be driven enough to seek justice for all those other forgotten victims.
It's sad, but that's how the justice system works.

 

[rvlvr]

Police have DNA profiles in the Pearman and Bettles cases so we can probably say Wright wasn’t responsible for those, the other two cases are harder to solve given the victims’ bodies haven’t been found, sadly.

 

[Rookie D]

I think that the murders of Vicky Glass in 2000, Jeanette Kempton back in 1989, and the disappearance of Amanda Duncan in 1993 should all be considered as potential victims of Wright.

What's interesting about Pearman is that she was last seen soliciting outside a pub owned and run by Wright, and yet the DNA found on her body didn't match Wright, and so he was in the clear for her murder.

It seems such an intriguing coincidence how the killer of Pearman almost certainly picked her up outside or very close to the pub owned and run by another convicted serial killer who wasn't connected with that particular murder.

How many actual killers of sex workers were active in that specific area at the same time?

On paper at least, it would seem almost certain that Wright was responsible for Pearman's murder, but clearly he wasn't.

It does of course imply that the man who murdered Pearman, is likely to have killed other women also.

And that's where it all gets convoluted and messy. Thank goodness for DNA.