DID MY FIEND EX GET AWAY WITH MURDER FOR 30 YEARS?
THE ex-wife of serial killer Stephen Wright wants police to reopen a murder case that has baffled them for 30 years.
Diane Cole was with Wright – who killed five prostitutes – for four years and believes he is evil.
Now 64, Diane is convinced the murderer, serving life, is also linked to the death of Jeanette Kempton, right.
The 32-year-old went missing in Brixton, south London, where she lived with her ex-husband and their sons.
Her partly decomposed body was found in a ditch at Wangford, near Southwold, Suffolk, just over two weeks later in February, 1989. She had no known links to Suffolk but police said her killer may have had.
Diane has revealed that Wright had links to the Brixton area and where the body was found. Diane said: “I know he was in the London area and he knew the road near where she was dumped. “He is a nasty, vicious and evil man and the circumstantial evidence points in his direction.
“I believe the police should consider him seriously in relation to this murder.” Diane has spoken out after reviewing the evidence put together by cold-case expert Chris Clark.
The ex-police intelligence officer spoke to Diane about Wright’s movements in 1989. Wright married Diane in 1987 after both worked on the QE2. They ran the Ferry Boat Inn in Norwich. Wright, dubbed the Suffolk Strangler, was violent and by early 1989 he had moved to Chislehurst, Kent. It is 12 miles from Brixton and Wright was known to travel extensively. He regularly drove back to Norwich. The trip uses the A12 Wangford road, close to where Jeanette’s body was found.
She was missing her coat, a shoe, her purse, a wreath she had collected for a funeral, and jewellery. The cause of death was strangulation.
Mr Clark said Wright frequently drove back to Norwich and a London hire van was spotted turning into the area where the body was found on February 5, three days after Jeanette was last seen alive.
Rabbit hunters discovered her body 13 days later. The van was never traced.
Wright was known to hire vans and had made trips on the A12 to collect belongings from Norfolk.
Mr Clark said: “Jeanette Kempton’s murder bears all the hallmarks of the work of Steve Wright. There is ‘similar fact evidence’ linking Wright to both Brixton and the scene and it warrants investigation.” Forklift driver Wright, now 60, was found guilty of murdering five sex workers during a 10-day killing spree in Ipswich in December 2006.
He dumped his victims’ naked bodies in streams and laid out two in crucifix poses in nearby woods. Police always feared Wright was responsible for more unsolved murders.
Mr Clark added: “It is beyond belief to think he committed the murders in 10 days without killing before.” The Norfolk & Suffolk Joint Unsolved Case Team is leading the probe into Wright. A spokesman said: “We remain open to any credible new information provided.”