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Steven Gerald James Wright (born 24 April 1958) is an English serial killer, also known as the Suffolk Strangler. He is currently serving life imprisonment for the murder of five women who worked as sex workers in Ipswich, Suffolk. The killings took place during late 2006 and Wright was found guilty in February 2008. ==Early life== Wright was born in the Norfolk village of Erpingham,〔 the second of four children of military policeman Conrad and veterinary nurse Patricia. He has an older brother, David, and two younger sisters, Jeanette and Tina.〔 While Wright's father was on military service, the family had lived in both Malta and Singapore.〔 Wright's mother left in 1964〔 when he was 6;〔 his father divorced his mother in 1977;〔 both later remarried. Wright and his siblings lived with their father, who fathered a son, Keith, and daughter, Natalie, with his second wife, Valerie.〔 Wright left school in 1974 and soon afterwards joined the Merchant Navy, becoming a chef on ferries sailing from Felixstowe, Suffolk. In 1978 in Milford Haven, he married Angela O'Donovan. They had a son, Michael. The couple separated in 1987, and later divorced.〔O'Neil, S., (He was rude and aggressive, but no-one's idea of a killer ); The Times, London, 22 February 2008〕 Wright became a steward on the ''QE2'', a lorry driver, a barman and, just prior to his arrest, a forklift truck driver. Former sex-worker Lindi St Clair said she was attacked by Steve Wright in the 1980s. His second marriage was to 32-year-old Diane Cassell at Braintree register office in August 1987.〔 They split in July 1988〔 while he was a pub landlord in Norwich.〔 He was in a relationship with Sarah Whiteley from 1989–1993, and they had a daughter together, born in 1992. It was during this time that he also managed a public house in South London.〔 This post was lost due to his gambling and heavy drinking. He was convicted in 2001 of theft, stealing £80 to pay off his debts.〔 This was his only criminal conviction prior to the murders.〔 It is known that throughout these times Wright built up large debts largely through gambling,〔 and had recently been declared bankrupt.〔 Wright had twice tried to commit suicide, first by carbon monoxide poisoning in his car in 1994; secondly in 2000, by an overdose of pills.〔 A Thai woman, Somchit Chomphusaeng, claimed that she married Wright in Thailand in 1999.〔 However, after their two week honeymoon, he flew back to Britain and she received a letter, supposedly from his mother, informing her that he had been stabbed to death. When shown photographs of Wright, after his arrest in Ipswich, his Thai "widow" gasped: "Oh my God! That's my husband!" before fainting. Later, she said: "It must be his ghost. I was told he'd been murdered." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Wright (serial killer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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