Son of lacking girl fears she was a sufferer of serial killer Steve Wright as he calls for Suffolk Strangler reveal what he is aware of about her disappearance 26 years in the past

The son of a missing woman believes she may have been another victim of Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright after he admitted killing a woman 26 years ago.

The serial killer admitted to the 1999 murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall and the attempted abduction of a woman 24 hours earlier on the first day of his Old Bailey trial on Monday.

His guilty plea marks Wright’s sixth confirmed victim, having already been sentenced to a whole life order in 2008 for the murders of five women in Ipswich in 2006. 

But experts believe he was likely to have killed others, with his ‘modus operandi’ supposedly linking him to the unsolved disappearance of Kellie Pratt. 

Her 30-year-old son Kurtis shares the same fears and has issued a desperate plea to Wright to come clean over her disappearance. 

The 28-year-old sex worker vanished after taking a call from a client outside The Rose pub in Norwich at around 11.30pm on June 11, 2000.

Kellie was later reported missing by friends after she failed to meet them for a pre-arranged lift. Despite a major police investigation, neither she, or her mobile phone have ever been found, while no potential sightings have been reported. 

Police have previously said they have been unable to link Wright, who lived in nearby Ipswich, to Kellie’s disappearance. 

Steve Wright, the Suffolk Strangler, admitted to the 1999 murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall and the attempted abduction of a woman 24 hours earlier on the first day of his Old Bailey trial on Monday

Ms Hall vanished on her way home from a nightclub in September 1999

There are fears Wright was likely to have killed others, with his ‘modus operandi’ supposedly linking him to the unsolved disappearance of Kellie Pratt (pictured)

Kurtis told the Mirror: ‘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. 

‘I think now is the time to come forward to give the victims’ families and friends the peace they deserve.’

Wright’s ex-wife, Diane Cole, has also urged police to quiz the killer about other unsolved cases in the Norfolk and Suffolk area, saying: ‘I think this is just the beginning. I suspect he has killed quite a few other women.’

Criminologist David Wilson believes there are many similarities between Wright’s six murders and the disappearances of Ms Pratt as well as Mandy Duncan in Ipswich. 

Mr Wilson, a professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, told the Mail’s The Trial podcast: ‘His modus operandi fits with a number of young women who died in the early 1990s. 

‘If he had been arrested for what was happening at that time, then clearly we wouldn’t be talking today about what he is.

‘Mandy Duncan, whose body has never been recovered, disappears and is murdered in 1993, then Vicky Hall in 1999 and Kellie Pratt in 2000. They never found the bodies of Kellie Pratt or Mandy Duncan. Both of them, therefore, for me are still likely to have been victims of Steve Wright.

‘Having admitted to the murder of Vicky Hall, I hope this means he might be willing to talk about Kellie Pratt, Mandy Duncan, and about suspicions that exist about other young women that he may have murdered.’

Gemma Adams, then 25, pictured, was one of the victims of Wright’s murder spree in Ipswich’s red-light district in 2006

Anneli Alderton, pictured left, and Tania Nicol, right, were sex workers also killed in the attacks

In a six-week frenzy in 2006, former QE2 steward Wright went on the rampage, also killing Annette Nicholls, pictured left, and Paula Clennell, right

Former forklift driver and QE2 cruise ship waiter Wright, 67, snatched Victoria Hall off the street in Felixstowe as she walked home from a nightclub on September 19, 1999, before dumping her body in a ditch.

But police failed to capture the killer for seven years until he went on a rampage in Ipswich’s red-light district, murdering Gemma Adams, 25, Tania Nicol, 19, Anneli Alderton, 24, Paula Clennell, 24 and Annette Nicholls, 29, over a six-week period in 2006.

Ever since he was sentenced to a whole life tariff for the five murders in 2008, there have been questions about other unsolved cases. 

He was previously being linked to high-profile cases including the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh with whom he had previously worked on the QE2.