Overview
- Lorinda Hall, 70, died on December 18 at Ipswich Hospital and was laid to rest on January 16 at Seven Hills Crematorium, with her family requesting donations to East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice.
- Steve Wright is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on February 2, with proceedings expected to last about four weeks.
- Mr Justice Bennathan has permitted the jury to hear Wright’s prior convictions for murdering five women in Ipswich in 2006.
- Wright has pleaded not guilty to the kidnap and murder of Victoria Hall in 1999 and to an alleged attempted kidnap of another woman in Felixstowe.
- Victoria, 17, vanished after leaving the Bandbox nightclub in Felixstowe, and her body was found five days later in a ditch in Creeting St Peter, with none of her clothing or possessions ever recovered.