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/

 

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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

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/

The question is; how long before her death could semen be found inside her, and still be detected by swabs post mortem?

It is evident that Natalie had had intercourse shortly before she was murdered. Determining accurate timeframe parameters would be an optimum was to determine if there was time for Natalie to have had intercourse before she was then murdered by another person?

Seminal fluid will leave the body soon after a male has ejaculated, but was there time for Natalie to have engaged with a paying client, and then Wright to have murdered her aftterwards?


Of course, if Wright knew that Natalie had just been with another client, then he may have used that as a means to create a buffer between his own intentions to murder her.

Wright's primary M.O was strangulation/suffocation/asphyxiation, and not rape.

By targeting an active sex worker, the police would automatically assume that the semen found would be that of the killer.

But that may not be the case.


Finding semen in her body and on her under garments is one thing, but unless that was accompanied by evidence of rape, then it may indeed be a case of the semen found belonging to a completely innocent party.

 

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Chilling discovery after woman's body found strangled in ditch

Police have launched a new investigation after Sandra Court was last seen in Bournemouth in the early hours of May 3, 1986 - the day QE2 crew member Wright had docked 30 miles away in Southampton

www.mirror.co.uk

Looks like they're now linking Wright to the murder of Sandra Court from Bournemouth.


Interesting how Wright docks in Southampton on 3rd May 1986, and then Sandra Court is abducted and murdered, and then he docks again on the 28th July 1986, and then Suzy Lamplugh is abducted and murdered.

Could Wright be responsible for murdering both Court and Lamplugh?

Cannan or Wright?

 

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Chilling discovery after woman's body found strangled in ditch

Police have launched a new investigation after Sandra Court was last seen in Bournemouth in the early hours of May 3, 1986 - the day QE2 crew member Wright had docked 30 miles away in Southampton

www.mirror.co.uk

Looks like they're now linking Wright to the murder of Sandra Court from Bournemouth.


Interesting how Wright docks in Southampton on 3rd May 1986, and then Sandra Court is abducted and murdered, and then he docks again on the 28th July 1986, and then Suzy Lamplugh is abducted and murdered.

Could Wright be responsible for murdering both Court and Lamplugh?

Cannan or Wright?

Sandra Court certainly looks like Wright's usual method (strangled and then dumped in a ditch with no sign of sexual assault). Suzy Lamplugh, though, has clearly been buried somewhere, which wasn't Wright's style. Can he be placed in London at the time?

 

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Sandra Court does fit a lot of the Steve Wright MOs. Late night abduction of young woman heading home, strangled with no sexual assault, body dumped nearby, body left in water etc.

Not sure about him being available to send a letter two weeks later though, or more importantly him having access to a vehicle that night.

Cannan can be placed in Bournemouth, did have access to a vehicle, and is known to have communicated after offending.

I think he's a better suspect than SW as things stand, but who knows? It could be someone else entirely.