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

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Feb 9, 2026 #skynews
Suffolk Police has apologised to the only surviving victim of serial killer Steve Wright but stopped short of announcing an inquiry into their failings.Emily Doherty has told Sky News she was made to feel like a "silly little girl" after she reported Wright's attempted abduction of her in 1999.She believes that, if police took her seriously, the women Steve Wright murdered could still be alive today.

 

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Natalie Pearman, 16, was found dead in a lay-by at Ringland, near Norwich, on 20 November 1992.

Wright - who killed five women in and around Ipswich in 2006 - admitted the 1999 Felixstowe murder of Victoria Hall last week.

Natalie's killer has never been found, but her sister Georgina Simpson said:
"Every time [Wright's] mentioned, Natalie's put with him as a 'potential victim', which she's not." Police say they have a full DNA profile of the suspect.

'Stop linking my sister's murder to Steve Wright'

The sister of Natalie Pearman says not having answers has "taken a massive toll" on her family.

www.bbc.com

 

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Essentially, Natalie Pearman was abducted and murdered by an unknown killer; likely a serial killer, and yet she was also a regular frequenter of the pub that was run by another serial killer who wasn't her killer.

The chances of that unlucky combination being true, are beyond baffling, and so it's no wonder why Natalie is always mentioned in connection with Wright.

It shouldn't happen, but it's inevitable.

If the police have a full DNA profile of her killer, and yet it doesn't match anyone on the database, then that either means that her killer abducted and murdered Natalie as a one-off murder, or he is a serial killer who has never been caught.

I imagine that the advancements in familial DNA over the next few years will bring out some of these currently unknown killers that have remained elusive thus far.

 

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2 Feb 2026

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Wright with his second wife Diane CassellCredit: Collect

''Diane, who married sadistic bully Wright after they met while working on the QE2 liner in the mid-1980s, added: “I don’t think this is the end.
“We only know about the ones he has been convicted of, but there will be others, I’m sure of it . . . he’s the epitome of evil.”

'He failed to rise when the judge entered court and appeared exasperated when the female clerk asked him to stand and give his full name.'

 

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Essentially, Natalie Pearman was abducted and murdered by an unknown killer; likely a serial killer, and yet she was also a regular frequenter of the pub that was run by another serial killer who wasn't her killer.

The chances of that unlucky combination being true, are beyond baffling, and so it's no wonder why Natalie is always mentioned in connection with Wright.

It shouldn't happen, but it's inevitable.

If the police have a full DNA profile of her killer, and yet it doesn't match anyone on the database, then that either means that her killer abducted and murdered Natalie as a one-off murder, or he is a serial killer who has never been caught.

I imagine that the advancements in familial DNA over the next few years will bring out some of these currently unknown killers that have remained elusive thus far.

I would agree that it certainly seems quite unlikely that there were two murders with similar methods (strangling sex workers and dumping their bodies elsewhere) operating in Norwich at the same time in the early 1990s. Especially as Natalie Pearman was apparently last seen outside the pub that Wright actually ran! The police are convinced that the DNA profile that they've got is that of Natalie's killer. I'm not so sure. From the Norfolk Police website -

"A Post Mortem examination revealed that Natalie had died from Asphyxia. Forensic swabs revealed that semen was present in her body and on her under body garments and a DNA crime stain was obtained and loaded onto the national DNA database."

The problem here is that Natalie worked as a street prostitute. How certain can anyone be that semen found on her body isn't just that of a random client rather than her killer?

https://www.norfolk.police.uk/news/norfolk/news/unsolved-cases/NataliePearman/