{"id":276817,"date":"2026-02-02T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276817\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:48:08","slug":"steve-wright-serial-killer-pleads-guilty-to-murder-of-teen-years-before-suffolk-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276817\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Wright: Serial killer pleads guilty to murder of teen years before Suffolk killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wright changes pleas to guilty: Here&#8217;s what you need to knowpublished at 12:14 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:14 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-arspwv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6d533a8c-4d1f-4620-8a9b-ca2a466f088a.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Alice Cunningham<br \/>Reporting from the Old Bailey<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Serial killer Steve Wright, 67, was due to stand trial today at the Old Bailey in London, accused of kidnapping and murdering 17-year-old Victoria Hall in Suffolk in 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had also been charged with the attempted kidnap of Emily Doherty, then aged 22, in Felixstowe, the night before Victoria disappeared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However before the trial was able to start earlier, Wright changed all of his pleas to guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was previously jailed for life in 2008 for the murders of five women in and around Ipswich. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Today was the first time he has ever admitted being a killer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wright is due to be sentenced at the same court on Friday when we are expecting to hear victim impact statements from Victoria&#8217;s family and friends, as well as from Emily, who was the victim of the attempted kidnap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Court sketch of Steve Wright appearing at the Old Bailey, he is flanked by a woman, and a man in uniform\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/61473b05-ebc8-4b7e-a5a1-2e5800f9840a.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wright changes pleas to guilty: Here&#8217;s what you need to knowpublished at 12:14 GMT 12:14 GMT Alice CunninghamReporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-276817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}