Ipswich killer jailed for full life term

By Andrew Hough

LONDON (Reuters) - Convicted killer Steve Wright was told by a judge on Friday that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars for his six-week "targeted campaign of murder" against five prostitutes.

Wright, 49, killed the five drug-addicted women around the city of Ipswich in late 2006.

On Friday he was sentenced to a whole life term without the prospect of parole, meaning he will never be released.

The judge, Mr Justice Gross, said his crimes had caused public revulsion. "It is right you should spend your whole life in prison," he told Ipswich Crown Court. "This was a targeted campaign of murder."

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Drugs and prostitution had exposed them to risk but neither, he added, had killed them.

"You did -- you are responsible for their deaths," he said. "You killed them, stripped them and left them in rural or semi-rural locations.

"Why you did it may never be known but as the jury have concluded, disbelieving your denials, murder them you did."