Steve Wright

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Steve Wright was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in February 2008


The Court of Appeal in London threw out the application, ruling his trial was fair.
The judges ruled on the grounds that it was "quite clear to us that the defendant was fairly treated".


Lord Justice Hughes said Wright had raised no "arguable" grounds of appeal.
Wright, 50, formerly of Ipswich, Suffolk, was sentenced to life in jail after being convicted in February last year.


He murdered Gemma Adams, Tania Nicol, Anneli Alderton, Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls between October and December 2006.


Their bodies were found at remote locations around Ipswich over a 10-day period.


Wright, who had previously dispensed with his legal team, had sought to raise five grounds of appeal to show his conviction was "unsafe".


He asked the appeal judges to find that the jury was "placed under pressure which makes the verdict unsafe".


But they reached a "very clear conclusion" that none was "capable of showing that the verdict of the jury was unsafe".



The five victims


One of his arguments was that the trial should not have been held in the town where the murders had taken place.


Lord Justice Hughes said the trial had attracted a great deal of publicity - but that was going to be the case wherever it was held.


The Suffolk murders prompted the biggest hunt for a serial killer since the Yorkshire Ripper.


On December 19 police arrested Wright at his London Road home on the edge of the red light district.


Wright's DNA, which had been placed on a database after an earlier conviction for theft, matched that found on three women.


Blood from his final two victims was found on a reflective jacket he owned.
Fibres from his clothes, car and furniture were found on all five victims.
Wright told the court it was a coincidence that he sought the services of all the women in the order they disappeared, around the very night each vanished.


That, argued Wright's defence team, did not make him a killer.


The jury of nine men and three women disagreed.

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Steve Right -Early life

Wright was born in the Norfolk village of Erpingham, one of four children, including one brother, of a military policeman and a veterinary nurse.


While Wright's father was on military service, the family had lived in both Malta and Singapore. Wright's parents split during the 1960s and both later remarried. Wright lived with his father, who fathered two more children with his second wife.


Steve Wright left school in 1974 and soon afterwards he joined the Merchant Navy, becoming a chef on ferries sailing from Felixstowe, Suffolk.


In 1979, he married and had a son called Michael who was born in 1983. The couple separated in 1987 and Wright later became a steward on the QE2, a lorry driver, a barman, and just prior to his arrest, a fork-lift truck driver. Former prostitute lindi St Clair has claimed that she was attacked by Steve Wright in the 1980s.


His second marriage lasted less than one year while he was a pub landlord in Norwich.


He became a father again with another partner in 1992, whilst managing a public house in South London. This post was lost due to his gambling and heavy drinking (he was also convicted of theft, stealing £80)
.It is known that throughout these times Wright built up large debts largely through gambling,and has recently been declared bankrupt. Wright had twice tried to commit suicide, first by carbon monoxide poisoning and then, in 2000, by an overdose of pills.