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

[Sarahlou]

I can't think of many more prolific living UK killers than SW.

Bruce Lee, Rose West, Kenneth Erskine.. anyone else with more than 6 victims?

I'm surprised SW didn't get a second whole life tariff, like Levi Bellfield got when he was convicted of murdering Millie Dowler.

Lucy Letby.

 

[dotr]

Feb. 6, 2026

Long road to justice for family of Victoria Hall

Suffolk strangler Steve Wright has been jailed after finally admitting he murdered the schoolgirl in 1999.

www.thenational.scot

'Graham Hall, the father Victoria, speaking outside the Old Bailey after Steve Wright was jailed for her murder (PA)'
'At 6.13am, Wright is caught on CCTV at the BP Tot Hill Services on the A14.'

CCTV from September 19, 1999 of Steve Wright visiting a petrol station on the day he abducted schoolgirl Victoria Hall (CPS/PA)
''– September 24 1999
Victoria’s body is found by a dog walker in a ditch in Creeting St Peter, about 25 miles from where she was last seen.
– September 15 1999
Wright reports an injury at work. A few days later, Wright is asked by a colleague what he thought happened to Victoria. The defendant gives a menacing look and replies: “You do not want to know.”
– September 29 1999
Wright buys a blue Ford Mondeo and is believed to have sold his Ford Granada Scorpio in part-exchange.''

............
''– February 2 2026
On what would have been the first day of his trial, Wright dramatically changes his plea and admits murder for the first time.
– February 6 2026
Wright, now aged 67, is jailed for life with a minimum terms of 40 years at the Old Bailey.rong''

 

[Rookie D]

Feb. 6, 2026

Long road to justice for family of Victoria Hall

Suffolk strangler Steve Wright has been jailed after finally admitting he murdered the schoolgirl in 1999.

www.thenational.scot

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'Graham Hall, the father Victoria, speaking outside the Old Bailey after Steve Wright was jailed for her murder (PA)'
'At 6.13am, Wright is caught on CCTV at the BP Tot Hill Services on the A14.'

CCTV from September 19, 1999 of Steve Wright visiting a petrol station on the day he abducted schoolgirl Victoria Hall (CPS/PA)
''– September 24 1999
Victoria’s body is found by a dog walker in a ditch in Creeting St Peter, about 25 miles from where she was last seen.
– September 15 1999
Wright reports an injury at work. A few days later, Wright is asked by a colleague what he thought happened to Victoria. The defendant gives a menacing look and replies: “You do not want to know.”
– September 29 1999
Wright buys a blue Ford Mondeo and is believed to have sold his Ford Granada Scorpio in part-exchange.''

............
''– February 2 2026
On what would have been the first day of his trial, Wright dramatically changes his plea and admits murder for the first time.
– February 6 2026
Wright, now aged 67, is jailed for life with a minimum terms of 40 years at the Old Bailey.rong''

Note that Wright is wearing gloves.

Sickening

The fact he swapped a FORD Granada Scorpio for a FORD Mondeo reminds me of the case of Melanie Hall, who was abducted from a nightclub in Bath in 1996.
She was later found naked and dumped (tied up in bin bags) in dense foliage off a slip road leading onto the M5 motorway.

Like Victoria, Melanie also wore a silk dress and jacket at the time of her abduction, and both girls had just left nightclubs.

There were also a full set of FORD car or van key left close to Melanie's body.


The irony of those coincidences are not lost here.

 

[Dotta]

He looks much older than the e-fit in Melanie's case.
Balding, overweight with pot belly.
Hair much lighter in colour.

There is a 3-year gap - 1996 vs 1999.

But who knows?

This smirk makes me sick.
He was smirking the same way even in a mugshot.

Was he psychiatrically examined?

JMO

 

[tes1984]

There are some coincidences and MO similarities between the murders of Vicky Hall and Melanie Hall, but there's no evidence SW was involved in Melanie's murder.

If somehow he was, then it would be a street abduction. Based on SW's appearance in 1999, I think we can safely say he wasn't the young, dark haired man with a fringe, possibly seen dancing with Melanie three years earlier.

 

[tes1984]

This smirk makes me sick.
He was smirking the same way even in a mugshot.

Was he psychiatrically examined?

I'm not sure, but he tried to commit suicide a couple of times, so he may have been known to mental health professionals etc.

 

[rvlvr]

Some interesting info in this article I’d not seen before. The woman who Wright attempted to attack the night prior to Victoria’s murder gave police a partial registration number, which apparently matched around 12,000 people. That’s quite a chunky number of potential suspects but it could’ve been narrowed down geographically, especially when - according to the Mail - Wright was living only half a mile from Victoria!

Replying to my own post here in relation to the above point, according to this Mail article from yesterday:

The Old Bailey heard that police did not initially link the murder with the earlier abduction of Emily Doherty for weeks even though the surviving victim had provided significant details about Wright's appearance, car and registration.

Officers later undertook research into possible vehicles that matched Ms Doherty's description of Wright's car, which included the colour and partial registration.

His car was one of 56 vehicles identified by police investigating the murder of Ms Hall in 1999, the court was told.

So it seems they did do some work narrowing down that 12,000 figure, to just 56. But it seems they never actually went anywhere with this information - Wright, as far as we know, was never spoken to by the original investigating team. Yet he was clearly expecting a knock on his door, hence him fleeing abroad for a few months immediately after Victoria’s murder!

I assume police obtained the CCTV footage posted earlier in the thread back in 1999, but at the time they had no idea who Wright was. Which is fine. But if they’d taken the partial reg match and knocked on his door, and recognised and linked him to this CCTV image, they’d surely have had the basis of a decent case against him - if nothing else, it would’ve been a stronger one than the case they put together against Bradshaw.

 

[Rookie D]

Replying to my own post here in relation to the above point, according to this Mail article from yesterday:



So it seems they did do some work narrowing down that 12,000 figure, to just 56. But it seems they never actually went anywhere with this information - Wright, as far as we know, was never spoken to by the original investigating team. Yet he was clearly expecting a knock on his door, hence him fleeing abroad for a few months immediately after Victoria’s murder!

I assume police obtained the CCTV footage posted earlier in the thread back in 1999, but at the time they had no idea who Wright was. Which is fine. But if they’d taken the partial reg match and knocked on his door, and recognised and linked him to this CCTV image, they’d surely have had the basis of a decent case against him - if nothing else, it would’ve been a stronger one than the case they put together against Bradshaw.

Excellent post

Everything you're saying here makes complete common sense to me.

As I have said previously;

The 1st reason why any given murder case remains cold, is mainly due to lack of evidence
The 2nd reason is due to poor police practice and incompetence.

It is quite clear that if the police officers who had spoken to Emily had taken her seriously, then there's a chance that Vicky would have still been alive today.

I have no issue in stating that from my own personal experience, the police often become part of the problem, rather than the solution.
They're paid to do a job after all.

If I was running that investigation I would have been focusing on a potential link between the murder and the attempted abduction the previous night.

The issue is that unless the generic beat coppers don't record, review, and then relay the information correctly to their superiors, then it's hardly ever going to be escalated to the CID anyway.

It shows that the police made a judgement of Emily; that she was a drunk girl exaggerating, rather than consider she was telling the truth. By proxy, those officers have allowed Wright to have a free pass to then abduct and murder Vicky the following night.

It baffles me just how slow on the uptake some of these police officers can be. Their job isn't to judge someone, it's to record information accurately, and then relay it to their superiors for escalation if necessary. It has to start form the ground up, but in this case, the police not only failed Emily, they also failed Vicky, and as a result, she lost her life.


Pathetic policing practice at its very finest.


*sarcastic slow hand clap for the morons who didn't take seriously a distraught girl who was nearly abducted by a serial killer!

 

[Yellowbelly]

Replying to my own post here in relation to the above point, according to this Mail article from yesterday:



So it seems they did do some work narrowing down that 12,000 figure, to just 56. But it seems they never actually went anywhere with this information - Wright, as far as we know, was never spoken to by the original investigating team. Yet he was clearly expecting a knock on his door, hence him fleeing abroad for a few months immediately after Victoria’s murder!

I assume police obtained the CCTV footage posted earlier in the thread back in 1999, but at the time they had no idea who Wright was. Which is fine. But if they’d taken the partial reg match and knocked on his door, and recognised and linked him to this CCTV image, they’d surely have had the basis of a decent case against him - if nothing else, it would’ve been a stronger one than the case they put together against Bradshaw.

So they did manage to whittle it down to 56 potential vehicles, which is a far more manageable number of individuals to investigate and eliminate from the enquiry, so why didn't they? You would have thought that somebody would have noticed that one of them was only half a mile away from the scene of the abduction, so they should probably check him out.

Is it that they concluded that Bradshaw was their man, his car wasn't one of the 56, so they just stopped looking.