FINAL INSULT

THE father of young mum Michelle Bettles - feared to be another of Steve Wright's victims - was last night outraged by the killer's smirk in court, saying: "It's an insult.

- BY SASKIA ROWLANDS and ROBIN EVELEIGH

John Bettles, 70, branded the monster a lowlife for grinning as a victim impact statement was read out.

Wright was handed an additional 40-year jail term on Friday for the murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall near Felixstowe, Suffolk, in 1999.

It was the first time he has ever admitted murder.

Heartbroken John and Michelle's mum Denise, 67, have spent 23 years desperately searching for answers about who killed their daughter after her body was found in woodland near Norwich in 2002.

They are calling on the Suffolk Strangler who has already been convicted of killing five women from the red-light area of Ipswich to reveal if he knows about Michelle's fate.

Addressing the murderer, John demanded: "Put us out of our misery, otherwise our sentence will continue until the day we die.

"We just want to know one way or another for our own peace of mind."

Wright grinned at the Old Bailey when the harrowing testimony by Victoria's brother was read out.

Steven gave his heartrending account of the "unending hurt and suffering", saying: "Since I was age 15 I have had 26 years of not knowing what happened to my sister."

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As he spoke, a grin flickered across Wright's face a moment which enraged similarly grief-stricken John.