Steve Wright admits to killing 17-year-old Victoria Hall in 1999, more than 20 years after the crime.

Steve Wright, the Suffolk strangler, has pleaded guilty to the 1999 murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall, marking his first admission to any of the six killings he is accused of, including five others he was previously convicted of. The 67-year-old, already serving a whole life sentence, also admitted to attempting to kidnap 22-year-old Emily Doherty the day before Hall’s death. Hall vanished after a night out in Felixstowe and was found five days later in a ditch 25 miles away. The case, unsolved for over two decades, was reopened in 2019, leading to Wright’s arrest in 2021. His guilty plea comes after a judge allowed evidence of his prior convictions to be used at trial. Sentencing is set for Friday to allow victim impact statements.