Should the 'Suffolk Strangler' have been stopped sooner?
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The "Suffolk Strangler" murders horrified the UK in 2006, as five women were killed in the Ipswich area.
But should the killer have been caught years before?
Steve Wright became known as one of the country's most notorious serial killers - and admitted last week to having murdered a sixth woman in 1999.
Now, his only survivor says his victims might have survived if police had taken her seriously.
Niall speaks to Sky correspondent Emma Birchley.
Producers: Paul Wilkinson & Tom Gillespie
Editor: Piers Wisbey
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| 0:07.6 | Coming up, the Suffolk Strangler is convicted of another murder, years before the crimes for which he was given the name. |
| 0:14.9 | Could his killing have been stopped much, much sooner? |
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| 1:20.9 | Between October and December 2006, the bodies of five women were found in and around Ipswich in Suffolk. |
| 1:27.9 | There was an apparent serial killer on the loose targeting sex workers. |
| 1:31.9 | The man arrested this morning was arrested somewhere around the red light district in Ipswich, sometime earlier this morning. |
| 1:39.6 | The killer was Steve Wright. He was eventually caught and sentenced. |
| 1:42.5 | But did the police miss opportunities |
| 1:45.1 | to catch him years before he committed those murders? The police came, but they didn't believe me |
| 1:51.8 | at all. They treated me like a silly little girl. Skies Emma Birchley's been speaking to the |
| 1:58.0 | only known survivor of the Suffolk Strangler. Suddenly, he was literally right there. He stepped right into me. He said, all right, in a low, |
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