Steven Gerald James Wright (born 24 April 1958)[1] is an English serial killer, also known as the Suffolk Strangler.

The killings took place during the final months of 2006 and Wright was found guilty in February 2008 and given a whole life order.

Steven Wright was born in the Norfolk village of Erpingham,[1] the second of four children of military policeman Conrad and veterinary nurse[2] Patricia,[3] on 24 April 1958.

[2] Wright left school at the age of 16 in 1974 with no qualifications, and soon afterwards joined the Merchant Navy, becoming a chef on ferries sailing from Felixstowe, Suffolk.

[citation needed] In 1978, at age 20, he married Angela O'Donovan in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Forensic evidence led to his arrest on 19 December: tiny flecks of blood were found on the back seats of Wright's Ford Mondeo and partially matched the DNA profile of murder victim Paula Clennell.

At Ipswich Crown Court the following day, Mr Justice Gross sentenced Wright to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he should never be released.

[11] On 3 June 2024 Wright was charged with the murder of 17 year old school girl Victoria Hall in 1999, after police opened a cold case review.

[19] Cleveland Police have not ruled out a link between Wright and the murder of Vicky Glass, a factory worker in Teesside, who vanished from Middlesbrough in September 2000, and whose naked body was later found in a brook on the North York Moors.

[21] Kempton had vanished from Brixton, near where Wright lived at the time, and was later found dead many miles away in a rural location in Suffolk.

[22][23] Only two months after this police announced a re-investigation by a historical crimes unit into Vicky Glass's murder in order to pursue "new lines of enquiry".

[33] Wright had previously also been linked by criminal experts to the unsolved murder of Norwich sex worker Natalie Pearman in November 1992.

[41][42] Family members of the victims stated they believed he could be linked and called for the police to investigate this further and charge him for them.