Think of the families

Suffolk Strangler brother got murderer to confess

- BY LUCY THORNTON

SUFFOLK Strangler Steve Wright finally confessed to murder after his big brother forced him to think of the families.

Speaking for the first time about his twisted sibling, Dave Wright told how he got him to tell the truth for the first time in decades.

Wright was serving a life sentence for killing five women when he finally came clean during a showdown about the murder of teenager Victoria Hall.

The former QE2 waiter and merchant seaman was told to put his victims’ loved ones out of their hell.

Dave says he persuaded Wright, who was due to stand trial last month for a sixth murder, to change his plea at the 11th hour. However the building boss from Suffolk was disappointed his brother's confession came too late for 17-year-old Victoria's mum, who died months earlier.

Victoria was murdered in 1999 in Felixstowe after leaving a nightclub as Wright was “on the prowl.” Her naked body was found in a water-filled ditch five days later.

Wright, 67, who is behind bars at HMP Long Lartin, in Worcs, had spent decades insisting he was innocent and his brother worked tirelessly on a failed appeal bid.

But after discovering there was damning DNA evidence against Wright in the case of Vicky Hall, Dave started to further quiz his brother.

During a number of prison phone calls he finally owned up.

After hearing about the DNA evidence police had against his brother, Dave told him: “Youre guilty! You've got to confess and put these families out of their hell.”

Asked why his brother had finally decided to come clean, Dave told this paper: “Because I told him to!’