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Steve Wright appears at court over 1999 killing

Suffolk Police Victoria Hall's face with wallpaper in the backgroundSuffolk Police
Victoria Hall was last seen just yards from her house near Felixstowe when she disappeared, aged 17

Steve Wright has appeared in court charged with the murder and kidnap of 17-year-old Victoria Hall in 1999.

The teenager disappeared on her way home from a nightclub in Felixstowe, Suffolk, and was last seen in the early hours in her home village of Trimley St Mary on 19 September that year.

On 24 September, her body was found by a dog walker in a water-filled ditch in Creeting St Peter near Stowmarket - about 25 miles (40km) from where she was last seen.

Mr Wright, 66, previously of London Road, Ipswich, appeared at Ipswich Crown Court via video link. No plea was entered.

Elizabeth Cook/PA Media Court artist's image of Steve Wright wearing glasses and a T-shirt with his arms folded at a table during his appearance at Ipswich Magistrates' Court in June 2024Elizabeth Cook/PA Media
Steve Wright appeared at crown court via video link, as he had for a hearing at magistrates' court in June, when this picture was drawn by a courts artist

Judge Martyn Levett adjourned the hearing until more background information was available.

Mr Wright has also been charged with the attempted kidnap of a 22-year-old woman on 18 September 1999.

He is due to appear at the court again on 24 September.

A provisional trial date has been put in place for June 2025 in London, although which court is yet to be confirmed.

. A graphic showing locations where Victoria Hall had been on 19 September 1999 when she left the Bandbox nightclub in Felixstowe at 01:00, was last seen in Trimley St Mary at 02:20, and where her body was found at Creeting St Peter on 24 September 1999..

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