THE Suffolk Strangler has been charged with murdering Victoria Hall - 24 years after the teen was discovered dead in a ditch.
The 17-year-old was last seen on September 19, 1999, after a night out with pals at a nightclub in Felixstowe, Suffolk.Tragically, Victoria never returned home with her body discovered five days later in a water-filled ditch 25 miles away near Stowmarket.The 66-year-old - known as the Suffolk Strangler - has also been charged with one count of attempted kidnap in connection with a separate incident involving a 22-year-old woman.
Victoria was walking home from the Bandbox nightclub with best friend Gemma Algar in the early hours of the morning when she vanished.morning and realised Victoria had not come home - and alerted the police.Suffolk Police reopened its investigation in 2019 after receiving fresh witness information, which it would not expand upon.
Frank Ferguson, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service in the East of England, said: “The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Suffolk Police to charge Steve Wright, 66, with the kidnap and murder of Victoria Hall and the attempted kidnapping of another woman in September 1999.“We remind all concerned that criminal proceedings against the defendant are active and that he has the right to a fair trial.
“It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary, or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.”
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