Where's mum's body?

THE son of a woman feared to be a victim of serial killer Steve Wright has demanded of the monster:

- BY LUCY THORNTON and SASKIA ROWLANDS

"Do you know where my mum's body is?" Kurtis Pratt, 30, grew up bouncing around foster homes after his mum vanished when he was four. Her body has never been found and his desperate appeal comes on the day Wright will be sentenced for the killing of another young woman, Victoria Hall.

Kurtis prospered against all odds and now has a Civil Service career but he is hoping the Suffolk Strangler could give his family and others the peace they crave.

He urged the inmate, already serving a whole-life tariff for five murders, to break his silence if he knows about Kellie Pratt's fate.

On the effect of losing his mum, Kurtis told us: "I grew up scared of the world. If she was alive she would have reached out at some point and said something to me, so I think I've made peace with the fact that she's gone.

"I am around the same age as my mum was when she went Vile Steve Wright missing, "It's now 26 years later and I have been given the opportunity to come forward for the first time in my life to appeal on behalf of my mum, my family and on behalf of other potential victims.

"I want to reach out to Steve Wright directly and ask that if Steve himself wanted to rectify even a little bit of damage he caused to his victims, it would be really important"

Kurtis questioned whether Wright knows where his mother's body is. He said: "Where is she? If we could get any information... then that would bring a lot of peace to a lot of people's lives.

"It's not going to do him any good to keep this to himself, it must be eating him alive after all his time. So it's for his own good and for everyone else's good involved, for him to just open up and own up to what he's done."