A former Queen Elizabeth II sailor who was educated in Malta does not seem to have got much out of his education. Steve Wright, the 49-year-old son of an RAF serviceman who was based in Malta in the 1960s, is currently standing trial for the murder of five prostitutes over a three-month period in Ipswich in 2006.
Wright has pleaded not guilty to killing Tania Nicol, 19, Gemma Adams, 25, Anneli Alderton, 24, Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29, between 29 October and 13 December 2006.
Testifying during the trial on Thursday, Wright gave lurid details of how he picked up Nichol in his car but decided against having sex and then went home. “As she got in the car I noticed she had acne on her face. Basically, that’s what put me off quite a bit, really.”
The court heard earlier that Wright and his partner Pam, whose maiden name is also Wright, moved into a flat in the red light district of Ipswich on 1 October, 2006.
He said Pam Wright did not know he went with prostitutes and he had not felt good about deceiving his partner. “If she found out, she would probably have left me,” he said. “I didn’t feel good about myself, obviously. It’s a situation I got myself in.”
Wright told the court that when the couple first got together it had been “pretty good”.
But he said their sex life had deteriorated and that when in 2006 Pam Wright began working night shifts at a call centre it was “pretty much non-existent”.
The five victims were found dead in various parts of Ipswich over the three months from October to December 2006. Wright’s DNA was found on three of the women’s bodies. Blood from two of the women was found on one of his coats, and fibres from his home or car were found on all five.

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