Steve Wright has been found guilty of the five murders of Gemma Adams, Tania Nicol, Anneli Alderton, Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls, all killed over a six and a half week period in late 2006.
This is obviously a good thing. But I have some questions, some stuff in the BBC reporting is making me think.
Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, said the decision by the women to turn to prostitution "was ultimately to prove fatal".
Decision? Like a career choice? Like they had a huge amount of choice? Like they wouldn’t have chosen to get out and do something else instead? And this *decision* proved fatal - umm, that kind of implies it was their fault? Hang on, who did the killing here?
Interesting is the background in this article - Killer steeped in world of vice.
What drove a man to carry out such a campaign against prostitutes, systematically selecting and murdering them before dumping their bodies in isolated locations around Ipswich?
He’d been using prostituted women since the 80’s at least, in the UK and abroad.
He regularly used sex workers in the red light district of Ipswich, bringing them to his home or having sex with them in his car.
His appetite for prostitutes took him from Thailand to the streets of Norwich and eventually Ipswich.
In the 1980s, Wright was working as a steward on the QE2 cruise liner when he was captured on film in Pattaya, Thailand
Appetite? Like women are a consumable commodity like food? I#’m more and more uncomfortable with the language being used here and the implications.
But what lead him down this path?
Wright, while appearing quiet and unassuming, harboured anger from his difficult, transient childhood and bitter resentment towards his real mother who he did not see for 26 years.
Oh, I get it. It’s his mother’s fault? It’s his mother’s fault he killed five women? And it’s the women to blame for being killed because they *chose* to work as prostitutes?
Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think the blame lies in either of those places. It lies with him, the man who did the killing.
