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(HUM OF CONVERSATION)

[QUIET CHATTER]

WOMAN: Yeah, milk and one sugar, please.

[CHATTER CONTINUES]

ORIGINAL AUDIO: Right. Good evening. Welcome.

This really is our first AGM after we reconstituted in 2006.

And then all the awful events happened, and we became stronger and stronger.

Erm... so after our reconstitution,

we made a lot of... we made a lot of progress in regenerating this street.

We've put new signs up, thanks to Ken.

Hopefully, the problem with the girls has disappeared. We don't see them now.

I believe there are still a few round in Handford Road,

but... we really can't concern ourselves with them.

[PIANO PLAYS]

The street has got much better in this last year.

I think the police have done exceptionally well,

under exceptional circumstances, to clear the streets as they have done.

Our problem now is to keep them up, so they may commit to...

Y' know, this is gonna continue.

They're still gonna, y' know, help the girls who need helping,

or... or jump on the ones who don't.

[AUDIO FADES]

Good evening. Welcome.

Good evening. Welcome.

Good evening. Welcome.

Good evening. Welcome.

Welcome.

Welcome.

Good evening. Welcome.

Good evening. Welcome.

Welcome. Good evening.

This really is our first AGM.

ALL: ♪ This really is our first AGM. ♪

This really is our first AGM

after we reconstituted in 2006,

and then all the awful events happened, and we became stronger and stronger.

Erm, yeah, aft... so after our, er, reconstitution,

we made a lot of... we made a lot of progress in regenerating the street.

Er, we've put new signs up, thanks to Ken.

Good evening. Welcome.

Good evening. Welcome.

Good evening. Welcome.

Good evening. Welcome. Welcome.

Welcome. Good evening.

Welcome. Good evening.

Welcome. Welcome. Good evening.

Hopefully, the problem with the girls has disappeared. We don't see them now.

I believe there are still a few round in Handford Road,

but, er, we really can't concern ourselves with it.

The street has got much better in the last year.

I think that the police have done exceptionally well

under exceptional circumstances to clear the streets as they have done.

This really is our first AGM.

ALL: ♪ This really is our first AGM. ♪

Our problem now is to keep them up, so that they may have commit to...

You know, this is gonna continue.

They're still gonna, y' know, help the girls who need helping,

or... or jump on the ones who don't.

Our problem is to keep the police to that commitment.

The Chief Constable said to us in the police briefing

that this is gonna go on for five years. We gotta keep 'em to it!

♪ We can't let other priorities take, take over

♪ Otherwise we're just gonna slip back

♪ We can't let other priorities take, take over

♪ Otherwise we're just gonna slip back. ♪

I wanna say thank you to the police.

Thank 'em, cos... representatives here.

♪ And the Ward Councillor, the County Councillors

♪ Who have done a lot to help us. ♪

So, thank you very much, all of you.

Yeah. Forthcoming events.

Julie.

♪ Yeah, very similar to last year, really

♪ We're... still gonna carry on the quiz night

♪ Fish n' chip supper yet again

♪ It's, erm, y' know, the more, the merrier

♪ Friends, family

♪ We always get a good number, anyway and we have a cracking night, so...

♪ Hopefully see you all there with your friends and family

♪ And also our London Road in Bloom contest again

♪ Such a success last time Was really, really pleased

♪ It's a lot of hard work, but beautiful gardens

♪ You know, everybody enjoyed themselves

♪ So, get thinking about your gardens, your designs

♪ Hanging baskets and so forth So I'd like to see as many as possible

♪ You know, everybody enjoyed themselves

♪ So, get thinking about your gardens, your designs

♪ Hanging baskets and so forth So I'd like to see as many as possible. ♪

That's about it.

– (AUDIENCE LAUGHS) – That's it. Thank you.

It's...

We thought, well, with everything happening over the Christmas period,

with the prostitutes going missing and, and being murdered, and so forth,

we needed to get together as a community.

We got a lot of bad press, erm, when it was all goin' on,

sayin' sort of...

'London Road was a prostitute area', and so forth like that,

and we just got absolutely cheesed off with it as a community.

It is... It is not nice bein' labelled.

So we'd got together and got a Neighbourhood Watch up and running,

and we've managed to get a real good committee going.

But I think, you know,

the murders have brought the community together and made sort of...

restarted the Neighbourhood Watch more of a priority for more people.

It's probably given us a common... a really common cause.

– Yeah. Helen is the secretary of the... – Neighbourhood Watch.

I'm the chairman.

It... We were overwhelmed with people comin', wantin' to join,

because of the... murders.

Then again, Julie's a keen gardener.

You've seen her window boxes, obviously.

She suggested this at one of our big meetings.

She said, 'Why don't we have a London Road in Bloom competition?'

– And we all said, 'Yeah, that'd be nice.' – (LAUGHTER)

I come up with the idea of doing London Road in Bloom,

to make the area look pretty and that, and getting people involved,

and getting interested in their road and their homes again.

You know, people have put hanging baskets out this year

that have never done hanging baskets and pots before in their lives.

But they made an effort for the London Road in Bloom.

Come in my garden, cos I'll... Come in my back garden,

cos Bailey will just bark otherwise. We can talk a bit better there.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

♪ I've got nearly 17 hanging baskets in this back garden

♪ Believe it or not

♪ Begonias and petunias

♪ And, um, impatiens and things

♪ Marigolds, petunias

♪ And we got up there

♪ We got Busy Lizzies

♪ Hanging geraniums, all right, see

♪ There's all sorts in that basket anyway

♪ Hanging lobelias

ALL: ♪ Petunias in a basket Hanging basket

♪ That's a fuchsia

♪ Erm, there is a special name

♪ I just... call them lilies

♪ They're a lily type

♪ There is a special name

♪ And for the first time this year I've got a couple of, erm...

♪ Baskets

♪ Begonias and... petunias

♪ And, um, impatiens and things

ALL: ♪ Begonias, petunias

♪ Petunias

– ♪ We got Busy Lizzies – ♪ Hanging lobelias

– ♪ Impatiens and things – ♪ Hanging lobelias

♪ Hanging baskets

♪ Variegated ivy in there

♪ Which makes a nice show

♪ And then you've got, er...

♪ These sky blue...

♪ Whatever they are

♪ Bam-ba-bam la la

♪ That's, er... little purple ones

♪ Rhubarb

♪ The old-fashioned Marguerites The daisies

♪ The roses

♪ Have done really well this year

♪ Yeah

♪ Gave us an extra point for havin' basil on the window sill, didn't she?

♪ Yeah

– ♪ Hanging baskets – ♪ Rhubarb

– ♪ Variegated ivy – ♪ The-old fashioned Marguerites

♪ The daisies

– ♪ The roses – ♪ And then you've got

♪ The-old fashioned Marguerites The daisies

♪ I've got nearly 17 hanging baskets

– ♪ In this back garden – ♪ The roses

– ♪ Believe it or not – ♪ Petunias

– ♪ There's a special name for them... ♪ – [CHORAL SINGING]

ALL: ♪ Begonias

♪ And petunias

♪ And, um...

♪ Impatiens and things

ALL, QUIETLY: ♪ Begonias and petunias

♪ And, um...

♪ Impatiens and things. ♪

I don't know a weed from a plant, I don't.

But I did do a... a pot.

Yes, we got, er, June's pot.

– My pot. What are they? – These are double petunias.

My... Well, my daughter brought that down for me.

I've never done baskets before, so that was nice to...

Yeah.

And the Mayor came out in the morning at ten o'clock,

and walked up and down the road with us, picked some winners.

We wouldn't have got that without the murders, would we?

The fact the Lord Mayor... Is it the Lord Mayor?

– No. – Well the Mayor, anyway.

The fact the Mayor turned out to judge our competition...

Yeah.

The Mayor wandering up and down in the chain, walking up and down.

I was frightened to death! Walking up and down in the chain?

Thought, 'Somebody's gonna be pinchin' this thing!'

And I thought, 'You're taking a risk,

'with our reputation round 'ere!'

Well, she obviously felt safe in London Road.

Oh, we didn't win any prizes.

– We won a prize, didn't we? – Yep.

– Yes. – Commented on our neat lawn, didn't they?

Oh, they, yeah, commented on our lovely lawn.

I won the first prize, so... They say it'll be in the papers on Thursday.

Yes.

Well, they've been coming all week here. You know what I mean? Everybody.

Like Sunday, some people, er, come from holiday – tourists. They come down 'ere.

Chinese, they got. I said, 'Come in.'

And she stood there. And he took the photos over there.

Tourists.

Well, something's come out of... per day.

Today, the, er... st-Evening Star come down, and yourself.

Who's gonna be next?

The more publicity we can get around here,

the less likely it is, I think, for the... ne'er-do-wells to start creeping back.

Get the...

I keep telling them at every meeting we hold,

'We gotta get this street tarted up.'

And they always say, 'It's not the right choice of words.'

– (LAUGHTER) – Yeah.

If you feel good about where you're living and you make your house look nice,

then you'll enjoy... you'll enjoy life a hell of a lot better.

And when you're watering 'em, people come and say how nice it looks,

and that makes you feel proud to be where you are.

Very pleased with it, yeah.

It's gardens galore. [CHUCKLES]

♪ I've got nearly 17 hanging baskets in this back garden

♪ Believe it or not

♪ Begonias, and...

♪ Petunias, and, erm...

♪ Impatiens and things. ♪

Yourself, I mean, you'd be... as far as I could... like, as far as I'm aware,

about the only person that has actually come down here

and asked the residents how they feel.

There's been lots of, erm... lots about the girls –

you know, all their problems and, um...

Well, I find it astounding that, yeah, OK, there were five distinct victims there,

but there's also other victims –

you know, the people that lived here and had to put up with it.

When they found the... No, first of all, the girl...

We'll say one girl was missing.

– Never dreamt, then, did we, really? – No, we just...

What was happening. Just one girl go missing.

Like, we'll say a week later, they find a body.

No arrests or anything. They found a body.

And then you find in the paper – or radio, telly –

another girl is missing, from Ipswich.

And they find another body. And this...

I mean, imagine – this went on for five times,

till they found five bodies, and all prostitutes.

Oh, it was... it was absolutely awful. Cos of the children.

I've got teenage girls.

I've got a 20-year-old, got a 17-year-old, and I've got a 14-year-old boy.

So, yeah, they were having to, erm, make sure they got their mobile phones on them.

Erm... My middle daughter works at Next, and Next were very good.

They weren't allowing any of their work staff leaving the store

unless there was an adult there to pick them up.

If they couldn't find anyone to bring them home,

they'd book them a taxi to bring them back home.

So, yeah, it was all... It was all that worry.

There was a lot of fear from a lot of people.

I think it's the biggest thing ever... ever happened in Ipswich.

You know, everything else was put on the back burner.

It was... The main topic of conversation was... was the girls.

SANTA: ♪ There'll be much mistletoeing

♪ And hearts will be glowing when loved ones are near

♪ It's the most wonderful time

♪ Yes, the most wonderful time

♪ Oh, the most wonderful time

♪ Of the year! ♪

ALL: ♪ Everyone is very, very nervous

♪ Erm, and very unsure of everything

– ♪ Basically – ♪ Yes the most wonderful time

– ♪ Oh, the most wonderful time – ♪ Everyone is very, very nervous

♪ Erm, and very unsure of everything

– ♪ Basically – ♪ Of the year

♪ I'm a bit of an actress so I can tell... So you can ask me anything ♪

Ah-ha-ha-ha!

♪ It's, erm, definitely

♪ Changed the mood

♪ It's quite... yeah

♪ It's quite unpleasant feeling, because you're...

♪ Constantly I find that I'm walking through, thinking

– ♪ Well, is it him, is it him? – CHOIR: ♪ Is it him, is it him?

– ♪ Well, is it him, is it him? – CHOIR: ♪ Is it him, is it him?

♪ Yeah, I think it's, um, put Ipswich on the map

♪ For the wrong reasons, unfortunately

♪ The most wonderful time of the year

♪ CHOIR: Everyone is very, very nervous Um...

♪ Erm, we're not actually selling It's actually free

♪ Just free personal safety alarms

♪ On behalf of Town 102 Local radio station in Ipswich

♪ Erm, just handing away free personal alarms, because of what's...

♪ In the wake of what's been happening in Ipswich recently

♪ ALL: Everyone is very, very nervous

♪ Um, and very unsure of everything

♪ Basically... ♪

I mean, these are just flying out, basically.

We've only been out here about half an hour,

and we've nearly run out of stock.

So, yeah, yeah, definitely.

I mean, the best person to talk to is the bloke by the gen... erm...

Lamppost just there, cos he's the actual DJ.

I'm just promotions.

Obviously a lot of people goin' out for the weekend,

they're gonna be a bit worried.

So, um, we're handing out personal alarms to, um...

..all the sort of ladies out shopping today.

So that... So that's why we're here.

ALL: ♪ Everyone is very, very nervous

♪ Obviously a lot of people goin' out for the weekend

♪ They're gonna be a bit worried

♪ So, um, we're handing out personal alarms to, um...

♪ All the sort of ladies out shopping today

♪ So that... So that's why we're here

♪ Everyone is very, very nervous

♪ Obviously a lot of people goin' out for the weekend

♪ They're gonna be a bit worried

♪ So, um, we're handing out personal alarms to, um...

♪ All the sort of ladies out shopping today

♪ So that... So that's why we're here

♪ Everyone is very, very Everyone is very, very

♪ Everyone is very, very nervous

SANTA: ♪ The most wonderful time... ♪

– Can I have one for my daughter, please? – Certainly. 'Course you can.

– Thank you. – Would you like one of those?

Problem is, we're trying to find some, cos we need seven for our store.

– OK, we can sort that out for you. – Is that possible. Do you mind?

Yeah, I should think we can do that. Hang on. One, two...

Cos it's very odd. It's very surreal, I think, personally.

– Oh, definitely, yeah. – Knowing that, erm...

You know, a friend of mine was in New Zealand

at the time when this was all going.

She's just come back, and she heard about it over there.

It's quite – excuse the pun – but 'alarming'.

So, it's kind of, you know, it's...

I think that's probably... So...

But I'm gonna steal all of 'is alarms, now, look!

– Thank you very, very much. Bye! – OK, no worries.

I dunno, it-it is kind of a dodgy feeling, cos, like,

no one stays out at night now. But I like staying out at night,

so if I walk around, it's like, 'Why's there no one out?'

But... you know.

Cos I think, if you're gonna die, you're gonna die, so...

[CHUCKLES] That's... that's my point of view. Yeah.

Are you quite conscious of the murders which happened round here?

He doesn't care. You see? That is the attitude of people.

They just don't care. The news and the press just hype it all up, you know.

Cos it's Suffolk, and nothing ever happens in Suffolk.

If it happened in London, no one would care.

Cos everyone gets stabbed in London every day.

Isn't that right? Alec, come and talk.

He's running away!

MAN: Oi!

Do you wanna go round here? Sounds like a fight.

ALEC: Oi! Ashley! Nav! Oi!

You see? Stuff always happens.

It's a load of bollocks, but we like it. You all right, Kirsty?

The stupid thing, is I used to walk home at five o'clock in the morning on my own.

I'm not doin' that any more, not on my own.

But, yeah, I used to walk home sessed on my own all the time.

I actually took taxi money out with me on Monday, which I never do.

I'd spend the taxi money on drink! But I didn't – I kept it separate.

I had the taxi money. It was separate the whole night. [GASPS]

That's my girl, like, know what I mean?

If anything happened to 'er, I'd fuckin' fuck... kill everyone.

Love the girl, don't I?

I'm not gonna fuckin' hurt her, am I?

Nothing's gonna happen to her.

She just worries too much.

At the end of the day, she can look after herself anywhere, yeah?

But when she's got a person which is a legend anyway,

and an ex-boxer...

there's a lot of difference, in't there?

– [LAUGHS] – Yeah?

Simple as that. It's the truth, man.

ALL: ♪ Obviously a lot of people goin' out for the weekend

♪ They're gonna be a bit worried

♪ So, um, we're handing out personal alarms to, um...

♪ All the sort of ladies out shopping today

♪ So that... so that's why we're here

♪ Everyone is very, very nervous

♪ Obviously a lot of people goin' out for the weekend

♪ They're gonna be a bit worried

♪ So, um, we're handing out personal alarms to, um...

♪ All the sort of ladies out shopping today

♪ So that... so that's why we're here

♪ Everyone is very, very Everyone is very, very

♪ Very, very, very, very, very, very

♪ Very, very, very, very, very, very

♪ Very, very, very, very, very... ♪

The police kept issuing all these strange things

about what you should and shouldn't do, but they never said,

'Don't be a prostitute and don't get into a stranger's car.'

Which is... which was the obvious thing, really, wasn't it,

because everybody else was quite safe walking the streets.

Yeah. Well, we assumed. We assumed. Particularly when...

I mean, it was just prostitutes he seemed to be murdering.

I just think, like, you know, OK,

the people that live round here were just a bit more vigilant, like.

You know, they go out in couples, and then so...

I don't think there was the fear that...

You know, it's weird, but I don't think we were going to be attacked.

No, no, cos I think at my age, erm,

I could see that what he was targeting was sort of, slightly younger than me, yeah.

No, I wasn't frightened at all.

I can't say that people were concerned.

The Neighbourhood Watch people's main concern

was once again calling us a 'red light area'.

Because he hadn't been caught, and I think, like the psychiatrist said...

There was a statement.

'If this man is not caught, he will murder again.'

– Yeah. – And if he couldn't find a prostitute,

then that would... could be just an ordinary woman.

So that made people a little bit...

That made, uh... that made the area more, er, vulnerable, in that sense.

The first girl went missing, and of course, like, erm, you know,

like, the body wasn't found.

The second girl went missing – there you go. Here come the police.

And then, from then on, we had a police presence around the area.

You know, from, from, from the sort of second girl goin' missing.

I've never seen so many coppers. All from... all over the place.

Someone said there were over 500 police on this inquiry.

They'd knock on the door, and we'd have these forms to fill in.

'Do you recognise these ones?'

Or 'When did you last see her? Can you remember what she was wearing?'

Uh, for each girl, there was a... a team, a different team.

– Yeah. – And they all questioned us.

– It... it was... it was getting awful. – It just went on and on and on.

We were so getting fed up with just being asked, you know?

They were asking if you had nose hair, ear hair.

– Goodness knows why... – You know?

..they wanted to know that.

Well, I thought he was gonna be arrested.

Er, your mind goes blank.

'Where was you on Monday night?' sort of thing,

or whatever day it was. Can't remember exactly the date.

And you couldn't remember whether I went out or...

And so you... you know, you think, 'Well, where was I? What was I doing?'

Then they said, 'What colour's your car?'

Yeah. I said, 'Well, it's outside – it's burgundy.'

'What registration?' Well, he didn't even know that, did you?

Registration! Men, all of them... Well, a lot of people are like that, aren't they?

– (LAUGHTER) – Then he said,

'What colour eyes...? Have you got blue eyes?'

– I said, 'Yes, I think...' – Yeah, you said 'yes'.

And he said, 'Have you got a hairy chest?'

And I looked at him, and I thought, you know, where is this leading to?

'And what make is your watch?'

– And then that was really... – He said, 'I don't know. I don't know.'

Cos he hadn't got that one on at the time, had you?

He didn't know which one he had on that night, you know?

And that was really... I thought, 'He's gonna take him away in a minute.'

And I thought, 'Not over my dead body!'

[DANCE MUSIC POUNDS]

You being served? Yes?

Huffer? OK, takeaway?

They are coming on – they're just cooking. Um... it's cooking.

Do you want anything to eat? Bacon sandwich? [LAUGH] This is crazy.

I don't think we've had a day like this for months and months and months.

Erm, what... what was I gonna do next?

– Uh... Yes? Anybody? – Cappuccino, please.

– Takeaway? – Yeah.

I might do you a coffee when this girl's gone.

So, like, my dad picks me up every day after work,

and my dad's like 'Nooo!' Control freak!

Yeah. I got, 'If you get lost, stand by the police stand.'

I was like, 'What?!'

Well, we've never had anything like that before, no.

So... yeah.

This is... quite big, isn't it? Yeah.

[CHUCKLES]

We're all a bit... [CHUCKLES]

..frightened to go out at night. Yeah.

But then we are anyway!

[CHUCKLES] Yeah. Yeah. But yeah.

But they do say it was somebody –

either a policeman or a lawyer or a priest.

This was on the radio! Always utter rubbish on Suffolk Radio.

I've forgotten why a priest, but it's because they know the um... um...

Oh, I didn't put any brown sauce in, did I? Ooooh! You're distracting me!

Hang on a sec.

The funny thing is, some people say that they're terrified of going anywhere.

I don't think it's affected many people I know like that.

You have to carry on living your life.

It's a tragic situation,

but everybody has to stand up and continue to do the good things that we do

in the Christian way that we do them.

Erm, there's 117,00 people, I think, live in Ipswich.

I think that's the correct figure. [CHUCKLES]

We're looking for a tiny percentage.

The rest of us must stick together.

– You automatically think it could him. – Yeah.

That's the scary thing – you know he could be amongst us

and walking around with us every day, and we don't know.

– Yeah. – It's like, anyone.

It could be anyone in here, for all we know, which has now really scared me,

thinking about it. I'm just gonna, like, cry.

♪ You automatically think it could him

♪ Yeah

BOTH: ♪ You automatically think it could him

♪ That's the scary thing, that you know that he could be amongst us

♪ And look, walking around with us every day and we...

♪ We don't know

♪ Yeah

BOTH: ♪ We don't know

♪ You automatically think it could be him

– ♪ Yeah – BOTH: ♪ You automatically think

– ♪ It could be him – ♪ Yeah

♪ Like, anyone It could be anyone in here

♪ Like, anyone It could be anyone in here

♪ It could be anyone in here

BOTH: ♪ Like, anyone It could be anyone in here

♪ For all we know

♪ Which has now really scared me, thinking about it

– ♪ I'm just gonna, like, cry... ♪ – [BOTH CHUCKLE]

– ♪ It could be anyone in here – ♪ Yeah

♪ Which has now really scared me, thinking about it

♪ I'm just gonna, like, cry... ♪

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

BOTH: ♪ You automatically think it could be him

♪ You automatically think it could be him

♪ It could be him

♪ Erm, well

♪ Some serial killer seems to be on the loose!

♪ And, erm, has sort of attacked

♪ Prostitutes from in the Ipswich area

♪ And they've been found dead, naked, in...

♪ Various different areas surrounding Ipswich One

♪ Ten minutes away from my house, which is slightly scary

♪ And it was found on the body on the land of a girl that goes to my school

– ♪ So that's a bit scary – ♪ Yeah

♪ Yeah, I think cos we're in the countryside

♪ You think it's safer than it actually is

♪ I always... Cos, like it's, you know, Suffolk

♪ And everyone's like 'Oh, it's really nice and stuff'

♪ But then when you know there's actually someone out there

♪ It's a lot more scary So I ain't been going anywhere on my own

♪ I used to go out every Friday and Saturday night

♪ And I just don't go out any more

♪ It's not safe for young girls and women out in Ipswich any more

– ♪ It's not safe – ♪ Yeah

BOTH: ♪ It's not safe for young girls and women out in Ipswich any more

– ♪ It's not safe – ♪ Yeah

♪ As it used to be

♪ It's quite scary to think how the world's come to this

WOMEN: ♪ You automatically think it could him

♪ Yeah

– ♪ You automatically think it could him – ♪ Yeah

♪ Like, anyone It could be anyone in here

♪ Like, anyone It could be anyone in here

♪ Like, anyone It could be anyone in here

♪ Like, anyone It could be anyone in here

– ♪ For we know – ♪ Which has now really scared me now

♪ Thinking about it I'm just gonna, like, cry... ♪

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

– ♪ It could be anyone in here – ♪ Yeah

♪ Which has now really scared me now Thinking about it

– ♪ I'm just gonna, like, cry... ♪ – [BOTH CHUCKLE]

♪ You automatically think it could be him

♪ You automatically think it could be him

♪ It could be him. ♪

I, er, I just... I just broke up with my girlfriend.

She's been living in a mobile home, on a farmyard.

So that's even more worrying.

But I haven't said anything, but you do.

All them things go through your mind.

Just hope they catch him.

♪ Something like this happens and you realise that there's so much... ♪

– [ALARM BLARES] – ♪ It's...

♪ So many things that are bad in the world

♪ That's the fire alarm – we're all going to die! ♪

[BOTH LAUGH HYSTERICALLY]

– ♪ But it's exciting! – ♪ But it's exciting

♪ Cos nothing ever happens in Ipswich

♪ This is the first bit of, like, local scandal we've ever had

♪ Being girls, gossip mongers It's like...

– ♪ It's quite exciting – ♪ Yeah, yeah

– ♪ It's quite exciting – ♪ Yeah, yeah

♪ You automatically think it could be him

♪ Yeah

♪ You automatically think, it could be him

♪ Yeah

♪ Like, anyone It could be anyone in here

♪ Like, anyone It could be anyone in here

– ♪ For all we know – ♪ Which has now really scared me now

♪ I'm thinking about it

– ♪ I'm just gonna, like, cry... ♪ – [BOTH CHUCKLE]

♪ Yeah, it could be anyone in here

♪ Which has now really scared me now I'm thinking about it

– ♪ I'm just gonna, like, cry... ♪ – [BOTH CHUCKLE]

♪ It could be him. ♪

It could be your next... next-door neighbour doin' it.

Nobody didn't know who it was.

You women didn't know who it was.

So all us men, when I used to get on, when I used to get on the corporation bus,

I used to say, 'I'm innocent, I'm innocent!'

They didn't know. Or even this bloke, I suppose.

He felt the same.

Yeah. We're all guilty.

No, we... No, we're not.

No, we're not.

There were days when I just didn't go out Christmas shopping.

Cos I suspected that all the females kn... thought...

that I was the person who'd done this.

So I walked around with me head down.

Didn't wanna look at people.

I didn't wanna see them looking at me.

– ♪ You automatically think it could him – ♪ Yeah

♪ You automatically think it could be him

♪ That's the scary thing, that you know that he could be amongst us

♪ And look, walking around with us every day and we... we don't know

– ♪ Yeah – ♪ We don't know. ♪

You've got this feeling of suspicious by everybody...

..upon everybody else.

♪ Is it him, is it him? I don't know. ♪

Yeah, you did get that feeling. You did!

Bye!

Have a nice Christmas.

MAN: We hoped it was an immigrant from nish-noff land.

And if it is an immigrant, there'll be uproar.

And they'll send the fuckers all back.

Like, I'm... I'm not like that.

I'm sure you're not really like that deep down.

I fucking am! I reckon it's one Polish bastard.

We fucking have him.

♪ He's a white male, aged between 23 and 47

♪ He'll live in the local area

♪ He would have been fascinated, absolutely fascinated

♪ With murders in his younger youth

WOMEN: ♪ Silent night

♪ He would have tortured animals up till his mid-teens as well

♪ Then he'd progress

♪ He'd've had a number of... numerous relationships

♪ Up until he was about 25, 26

♪ They'll have been failed

♪ He's probably been married Lives on his own, but with a partner

♪ And he'll definitely, definitely, definitely

– ♪ Know all the victims – ♪ All is calm, all is bright

♪ Apart from one, realistically

♪ And that'll have been his one he's mucked up on

♪ Cos the other ones would have been absolutely fine with going with him

♪ And that's probably why he strangled her

– ♪ Round yon virgin... – ♪ Because she panicked

♪ Mother and child. ♪

– [BOTH GUFFAW] – I'm fuckin shittin' meself!

– I'm getting me coat. – You work with 'im.

Fuck, I'm leaving now!

That is scary.

Is that scary or what?!

I bet you're...

I bet you're... I bet you're...

I bet you're... I bet you're...

♪ I, erm, I... I've studied serial killers

♪ Since in my mid-teens

♪ And it doesn't mean I am one

♪ But, erm...

♪ Oh, I don't know ♪

[RHYTHMIC LAUGHING]

♪ Just, er, find it interesting

♪ But, but, as I say, y' know

♪ Just to emphasise it doesn't make me a serial killer

♪ So...

♪ Well, that'll get you off the hook, I'm sure

♪ That's right, then

BOTH: ♪ Well, that'll get you off the hook, I'm sure

♪ That's right, then

♪ After all that you've just said

♪ His failed relationships will be because, erm

♪ He became violent when he was drunk

♪ Actually, he'll be an alcoholic

♪ Or he'll have, er, trouble with substance abuse as well

♪ Mark, you're describing yourself! ♪ – [LAUGHTER]

♪ What you trying to turn yourself in for? Because... not good!

♪ That's it – ♪ Shall we ring the police? It's scary

♪ And also, in the last...

♪ Last six weeks

♪ Actually, 'bout the last two...

♪ Two months, approximately

♪ He'd have probably quit his job

– ♪ Silent night, holy night – ♪ Or he'd be off sick

♪ Or to that effect

– ♪ Shut up now! – ♪ That's it

– ♪ Shut up now! – ♪ That's it!

– ♪ Silent night – ♪ He's describing himself

♪ Look!

♪ I've just fucking wiped me arse I can't believe that!

BOTH: ♪ I've just fucking wiped me arse I can't believe that!

♪ I, erm, I... I've studied serial killers

♪ Since in my mid-teens

♪ And it doesn't mean I am one

♪ But, erm

♪ Oh, I don't know! ♪

[RHYTHMIC LAUGHING]

– ♪ Just, er, find it interesting – ♪ Sleep in heavenly peace

♪ But, as I say, y' know

♪ Just to emphasise it doesn't make me a serial killer

♪ So...

♪ Well, that'll get you off the hook, I'm sure

♪ That's right, then

♪ Well, that'll get you off the hook, I'm sure

♪ That's right, then

♪ After all that you've just said

♪ He, er... He'll be a local in the local pubs

♪ He'll be a bit of a loner

♪ But, er that's it Spot on who he is

– ♪ I guarantee it – ♪ Mark! What you...

♪ What are you on?

– ♪ You are worrying me, because... – ♪ What are you on?

♪ I remember a couple of weeks ago When that first girl went missing

♪ You come in the pub with blood pouring out your face

♪ No, I did not

♪ No, I'm sorry

♪ You did come in the pub with blood coming out of your face

– ♪ Actually, I did, didn't I, yeah? – ♪ You did, yeah!

♪ Shaving scratch

♪ I 'ave been... I tell you what I 'ave been thinking about ringing 'em

– ♪ I've been thinking about – ♪ It's half a million quid!

BOTH: ♪ It's half a million quid!

♪ It's half a million quid!

♪ Now you're worried, aren't ya?

♪ Right we've gotta go anyway We'll leave you with him... ♪

[LAUGHTER]

BOTH: ♪ We'll come back next week!

♪ I, erm, I... I've studied serial killers

♪ Since in my mid-teens

♪ And it doesn't mean I am one

♪ But, erm...

♪ Oh, I don't know! ♪

[RHYTHMIC LAUGHING]

– ♪ Just, er, find it interesting – ♪ Sleep in heavenly peace

♪ But, as I say, y' know

♪ Just to emphasise it doesn't make me a serial killer

♪ So...

♪ Well, that'll get you off the hook, I'm sure

♪ That's right, then

♪ Well, that'll get you off the hook, I'm sure

♪ That's right, then

♪ After all that you've just said. ♪

I get up at... I'm... I'm up at five. About five, quarter-past five.

And I'm normally sitting here, eating a bowl of cereal,

and I flick through Teletext

to see if there've been any developments during the night,

throughout the world, you know.

And I could hear these car doors closing.

And voices outside.

I was peekin' out the curtain, and the road was just full of policemen.

Hundreds of 'em.

He didn't come and tell me exactly what was going on, did you?

– Or... or... – No. Thought it'd be a surprise.

And so I sort of put my head out the door and said, 'Do you want a cup of tea?'

And they said, 'Ooh, yes, please.'

And I looked up and...

all the policemen, loadsa policemen down here,

loadsa policemen... I thought there was two.

I thought, 'I've... I've gotta get to work. I can't give 'em all a cup of tea!'

(LAUGHTER)

I got up, and all I could see were police cars going up the road.

And of course, you know, I...

♪ We knew

♪ Obviously it was in charge of, you know Something to do with these poor girls

♪ But, erm...

ALL: ♪ And that's when it all started It all kicked off

♪ Well, I got woken up by the telephone

♪ My son, erm, rung me on his mo... on, on, my home phone

♪ I said, 'Where are you?' He said

♪ 'Well I'm down, I'm down the road

♪ 'But you need to tell the police that I'm your son'

♪ I said 'Why, what have you done?'

ALL: ♪ And that's when it all started It all kicked off... ♪

You went to, er, go to work, didn't you, and you couldn't.

– Yeah. – ♪ Of course, he couldn't get through

♪ And I thought, well, what is, er, you know, what's going on, you know?

ALL: ♪ And that's

♪ When it all

♪ Started

♪ He said, 'No, no, no We're not allowed down the road'

♪ And lo and behold There was police, there was cameras

♪ They was from the Sun

ALL: ♪ It all started It all kicked off... ♪

You looked up the road, and all you saw was, like, a tented, a tented area.

You looked up the road, and all you saw was, like, a tented, a tented area.

Um, outside number 79.

LADIES: ♪ Um, outside number 79

♪ You looked up the road, and all you saw was, like, a tented, a tented area

♪ You looked up the road, and all you saw was, like, a tented, a tented area

♪ Um, outside number 79

JULIE: ♪ Um, outside number 79

♪ And I thought, oh, no, There's another prostitute been found

– ♪ I got up – ♪ I got up

– ♪ I got up – ♪ And

– ♪ All I could see was police cars – ♪ All I could see was police cars

– ♪ Going up the road – ♪ Going up the road

– ♪ And of course, you know, I... – ♪ And of course, you know, I...

– ♪ We knew – ♪ We knew

♪ Obviously it was in charge of, you know

– ♪ Something to do with these poor girls – ♪ Poor girls

♪ Poor girls

– ♪ But, um... – ♪ But, um...

♪ And that's

♪ When it all

♪ Started

♪ It all kicked off

♪ I got up

♪ And all I could see were police cars

♪ Going up the road

♪ And of course, you know, I...

♪ We knew

♪ Obviously it was in charge of, you know

♪ Something to do with these poor girls

♪ But, um...

♪ And that's when it all started It all kicked off... ♪

You looked out of the window, didn't you?

Oh, yeah, because there's, there's a window up there.

Oh, yeah, on our landing.

So you can see right over the next-door house,

and there's all police all round there, blue tape everywhere and everything.

So I thought, 'Oh...

'something's going on there.'

(LAUGHTER)

But then we...

We thought no more of it, really, did...?

– Well, I wouldn't say we didn't! – Well...

– We thought quite a lot! – Thought about it all morning, really!

No, we were... Well, we went...

– We went off to work. – Work, yeah, and then we...

And then we started hearing on the news...

..that someone had been arrested, er...

Or someone had been arrested.

And so we just... put two and two together and said,

'I think...

'they've just arrested our next-door neighbour.'

– [CHOIR VOCALISES] – ♪ I got up, and all I could see

♪ Were police cars going up the road

♪ And of course, you know, I...

♪ We knew

♪ Obviously it was in charge of, you know

♪ Something to do with these poor girls

♪ But, um... ♪

By seven o'clock, the press were here.

All stuck in people's front gardens with cameras and God knows what.

They were parking all over the place. It was pretty awful.

And knocking on doors. They were intrusive.

They were a damn nuisance. We had I think four, perhaps five, knock on the door.

In fact, I said I was gonna put a turnstile out there, charge 'em admission.

There was tapes from this house here.

So I went to the, er, police lady and, 'What's going on?'

Said there was a press conference at seven.

By then, erm, people in white suits moving around.

Looked up that way, saw all the world's press!

♪ This is London Road

♪ So, um...

♪ And this is where the second suspect was arrested

♪ So, I think Steven Wright

♪ But... that's yet to be confirmed

♪ But, um...

♪ And it's basically

♪ The police got it cordoned off

♪ Um...

♪ They're just letting residents through at the moment

♪ So, um...

♪ And they're not very happy about the, um... ♪

JASON: No.

♪ Intrusion

♪ They like a good moan

BOTH: ♪ They like a good moan

♪ It's like, the satellite trucks, the cherry-pickers

♪ They, they run from five in the morning

♪ To ten or eleven at night

♪ And they're all on generators They're running all the time

♪ And the lights There's bright lights as well

♪ So, erm, they're not happy

♪ But, um...

♪ But they all still watch the news and buy the papers

♪ Yeah, they all still watch the news and buy the papers

BOTH: ♪ But they all still watch the news and buy the papers

♪ Yeah, they all... Yeah, exactly, yeah

BOTH: ♪ They like a good moan

♪ They like a good moan... ♪

Yeah, the biggest... the biggest problem was getting your car here.

Er, because there was so many, uh, so many paparattis with the...

Yeah, with the big vehicles and, er, er... all the discs.

That was like the paparatti, the house across the road.

I can show you that, cos they wanted...

They were knocking the fence down to get in the garden

to take photographs, cos they were bringing 'im out, you see.

– I had journalists during the day here... – Did you?

..knocking on the door,. I wouldn't speak to them.

It was absolute chaos.

There was TV vans all the way down the road!

Right the way down to the Post Office.

– Mmm. – Great big cranes up.

Arc lights all over the place.

So we, we came in, and then the phone rang.

And my daughter said, 'I've just seen you come...' She lives in Manchester.

'I've just seen you come home.'

I said, 'What?!'

She said, 'Yeah.'

So then the strange thing was, we then, we then turned on the television,

sort of watching ourselves, almost, you know?

Because they were actually filming the house

while we were sort of inside watching, thinking, 'Ooh, we're inside there!'

So it was all a little bit weird.

Emails from people in Singapore saying, 'I've just seen your house on the telly.'

– Yeah. – Cos they live next door, you see,

which is sort of even worse for them,

because they were on television every day.

I can't imagine what they went through. It must've been awful for 'em.

♪ I'm, er, I'm working for, er, ITN today

♪ I'm on standby in case something breaks and they've gotta rush off somewhere

♪ At least there's a cameraman in the area

♪ Cos obviously the story's unfolding all the time

BOTH: ♪ Cos obviously the story's unfolding all the time

♪ And there could be something else breaking, you know

BOTH: ♪ And there could be something else breaking, you know

♪ Me, I'm, I'm, er...

♪ I'm a freelance photographer

♪ But I'm working for some of the nationals today

♪ Erm, and from our point of view

♪ We've sort of run out of steam a bit with things to photograph

♪ But you know Because it was like every day

♪ Somebody else was found

♪ It, it almost became

♪ Like a daily occurrence of, you know Where we gonna go this morning?

♪ And who's the next poor soul who's gonna front up in a field?

♪ Cos obviously the story's unfolding all the time

BOTH: ♪ Cos obviously the story's unfolding all the time

♪ And there could be something else breaking, you know

BOTH: ♪ And there could be something else breaking, you know

♪ It's a bit of a sort of an impasse, really

♪ There's not really much to, er...

♪ Much to do

♪ And I'm just, um, moaning about rates

♪ And people wanting us to work on Christmas Day

♪ The wife said I can do it if it's £1,000 And we'll go on holiday afterwards

♪ But apart from that, no

BOTH: ♪ They're running all the time

ALL: ♪ And the lights There's bright lights, as well

♪ So, um, we're not happy

♪ But, um...

♪ Cos they all still watch the news and buy the papers

♪ Yeah, they all still watch the news and buy the papers

ALL: ♪ Yeah, they all still watch the news and buy the papers

♪ Yeah, they all... Yeah, exactly, yeah

BOTH: ♪ They like a good moan

♪ They like a good moan. ♪

It was a big shock.

It's a totally different ball game when its just six doors up.

You know, and think...

And then... then they were saying 'Well, did you recognise 'im?'

But no one recognised him.

I look out of my window...

To the left is, um, the house that...

Steve Wright's partner rented.

Um, and where he lived.

And we don't know exactly what went on, which really unnerves me.

I mean, my daughter-in-law came and she didn't realise that it was so close,

and she went, 'Ahh! My God, you're so close!'

– When I... – And she just laughed, you know.

– She thought it was so exciting. – When I got...

And I was just... I could've cried.

– But when I got... – So depressed.

But when I got home that night, they were...

It was so close.

– We were inside the cordon. – I felt so... helpless, really.

– Because I... you know, I... – We then went to...

..I hadn't noticed.

We were so naïve, erm...

because I don't sit there staring out of the window!

The police were just there, erm, well, 24 hours, weren't they?

– 24 hours a day for two weeks outside. – Just there, patrolling.

And any pedestrian who walked past was stopped.

Can we walk up there?

I only live round the corner. We live in Rendlesham Road.

We've been affected, really, cos you can't get in and out of the area.

It's a bit of a nuisance, really, but, erm...

Cos I wanna come through there and then come to here.

But it's not happening, is it?

Do you see what I mean?

They've barricaded that off as well, ain't they?

Can we go down that way?

Where you going? Where you trying to go to?

I live in Rendlesham Road, but I'm gonna escort the young lady back round there.

I'm afraid you have to go round.

– Back round here? – Yeah. Sorry about that.

It's all right, mate. When's this gonna be over?

I don't know. I wouldn't be able to say.

– Friday? – No, I'd be guessing if I said Friday.

– Saturday? – No, I'd be guessing at Saturday as well.

– Sunday? – Nah, I dunno.

It's Chris... Monday's Christmas. It can't be Monday.

No, they'll stay until after Christmas, I reckon.

– Christmas, you reckon? – Yeah, I reckon.

– Can we just come 'ere? – Yeah, all right.

No worries about that, but...

It's against the law, you see.

I don't know whether I'm coming or going round this area!

You're all right through there, but you're not allowed through that bit, basically.

Have you got the man that done it, then?

– Wouldn't know. They won't even tell us. – Won't they?

They won't tell us if they've arrested him.

– They got the wrong bloke... – Trimley.

The bloke they got Monday, he's a Pats... He's a nutjob.

– He didn't do nothing like that. – You should come and work for us!

He didn't do it. Lunatic Monday. I mean, God almighty!

Anybody can say... It's not Hannibal Lecter or anybody, is he?

– He's a simpleton. – Yeah, probably is.

CREEPY VOICE: 'I know the girls. I've seen all them girls.'

Mind you, flippin' half the tow... People in the town, if you were to pull them in,

– probably went with them girls. – Yeah!

– Except for yours truly. – I was gonna say, hopefully not yourself!

No. Cos I wouldn't give 50 quid to a little skaggy little whore.

Nah.

Anyway, looks like my relief's turned up – I'm gonna get a cup of coffee.

– Can't be bad. People, take care anyway. – OK, and you.

They got these tapes across, policewoman there,

and then, when we went out in the car,

you had to come up under the tape with your car,

and we had to say '95' – coming out, going home.

Coming out, going home.

We had no post, no binmen.

Um if we had a postman, the postman had to be escorted by police inside the cordon.

It was like that for about a week.

But... on the good side, I suppose at that time,

we were the safest road in Ipswich. So many police!

Look, I've got four or five bobbies outside my house.

I'm in the safest house in Britain.

You know, the Queen isn't as well guarded as we are,

the police that's around.

I think it was policing as we'd like to see it all the time, really.

Bobbies standing at the corner of your house,

making sure that no nasty people got near you.

You'd feel like the, um, Prime Minister, wouldn't you?

Yeah. And the road was ever so quiet,

and nobody stole our festive wreath this year.

(LAUGHTER)

When somebody knows you live opposite, they wanna know...

think you've got inside information, which I... you haven't.

You've just got what's in the... the journalists are saying.

The police don't tell you anything, do they?

They're not allowed to, are they?

Well, no, no. All I could say is,

'There's police out there. There's cordons.

'They check who you are.'

You've got to stop at the cordon and be checked who you are!

– Excuse me – I got to eat. – Oh, it's that smelly fish!

It's Tim's smelly... the fish for his jacket potato.

I'm sorry. I hate the smell of it.

But I must say, it didn't...

it didn't affect me a great deal, because, uh...

I presume I... That's because I...

done three tours in Northern Ireland,

and you saw all that sort of thing practically every day.

[NEWS INTRO MUSIC]

If you've just joined us, it's half past nine.

This is BBC News 24. Live coverage of the arrival in court

of the 48-year-old man who's been charged with murdering five prostitutes

whose bodies were found in the Ipswich area.

Steven Wright will appear inside Ipswich Magistrates Court

within the next half hour.

Our colleague, er, Chris Eakin is at the court.

And, Chris, just talk us what we're expecting to happen.

[SIREN WAILS]

Yeah, I'm sorry about that.

We expect Steven Wright to arrive perhaps in the next 15 minutes or so.

We do understand now that the court appearance will be at 10am.

Just a reminder, if you've just joined us, I mean, you can see the police activity,

which is being stepped up now.

The building over here is just the magistrates court.

This is now the moment that Steven Wright faces the charges,

is formally charged with these five murders of the five women.

All of this has happened quite suddenly.

A very dramatic announcement last night, late last night,

that Steven Wright was charged with these five murders.

I've been here since about half-nine.

I just saw 'im come along, like, with the police sirens and that.

And they were, you know...

None of the photographers caught 'im...

..caught any photos of 'im or anything, but...

Just waiting to get a glimpse, really.

♪ Just waiting to get a glimpse, really ♪

Essentially, all I can tell you is his name is Steven Wright,

he's 48, he's a forklift truck driver,

he's from London Road in Ipswich. That's pretty well it.

I mean, I just turned round and said to my partner,

'Right, I'm off down town.' He said, 'What – this early?'

I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'You wanna go and see what's going on!'

I said, 'Course I flaming do!'

Too right!

I tell you, if I get hold of 'im... [LAUGHS MENACINGLY]

I really... I've never seen anything like it.

♪ Well, he came into town as I As I came down

♪ On the roundabout Where the black building is

♪ I said to my brother, I said 'What's goin' on?'

♪ I said, 'What's happened?'

♪ And he said He said

♪ 'Cos the bloke...'

♪ He said, 'He's in court this morning, isn't he?'

♪ And then when I came up here I thought, oh, my word!

♪ Am I gonna get parked?

♪ Cos they've taken all the spaces along here ♪

– 'Allo! – 'Allo! ARV.

♪ 'Allo

♪ 'Allo! They're closing in

♪ They're closing in

♪ They're obviously, he's obviously coming out

♪ Here 'e comes, here 'e comes

♪ They're closing in, look

♪ That's all the police, I can see them Stopping traffic and that up there an' all

♪ Oh, dear

♪ Yeah, look at this, look at this

♪ It's 'orrible, innit, eh?

♪ It's a wicked bloody world

♪ Yeah, look at this, look at this

♪ It's 'orrible, innit, eh?

– ♪ It's a wicked bloody world! ♪ – [SIRENS WAILS]

I'm just hearing some sirens, actually, um,

and as he is going to come from this direction,

uh, we'll just turn our camera round that way,

just so that we do actually see this convoy when it hap...

Turn round this way.

♪ I said I to my husband, 'I won't be long, dear

♪ 'I'm just gonna go and do a couple of bits in town'

♪ He said, 'All right'

♪ Then when I see this lot I phoned him up and said

♪ 'I won't be home yet'

♪ Yeah, I know I've gotta get shopping and stuff

♪ He said, 'You're nosy' I said 'No!'

♪ I said, 'But if I can get to 'im, I will!'

♪ He said, 'You're nosy' I said 'No!'

♪ I said, 'But if I can get to 'im, I will!'

♪ I'd knacker 'im!

♪ They're obviously on the verge of bringing 'im out

♪ Cos the position The cars are ready

♪ The position the cars The police are all in position – look

– ♪ He says... – ♪ They're obviously on the verge

♪ Of bringing 'im out Cos the position – the cars are ready

♪ The position of the cars

♪ The police are all in position – look

– ♪ He says, he says – ♪ There's a bloke...

– ♪ He's in court this morning... ♪ – [CHORAL SINGING]

– ♪ He says, he says – ♪ There's a bloke...

– ♪ They've taken all the spaces... – ♪ This morning... ♪

[CHORAL SINGING]

– ♪ 'Allo! – ♪ 'Allo! ♪

– Police motorbikes coming up the road... – ARV.

Not from the direction we were expecting.

– 'Allo! – So I imagine this is not the convoy.

'Allo!

♪ They're closing in... ♪

– [SIRENS APPROACHING] – Oh, it might be, actually.

– ♪ They're closing in... ♪ – I think it is.

These are the sirens from the right.

♪ Here he comes!

♪ They're closing in – look!

♪ That's why all the police I can see them

♪ Stopping traffic and that up there an' all

♪ Oh, dear!

♪ Yeah, look at this, look at this

♪ It's 'orrible, innit, eh?

♪ It's a wicked bloody world!

♪ Yeah, look at this, look at this!

♪ It's 'orrible, innit, eh?

♪ It's a wicked bloody world! ♪

[ANGRY SHOUTING]

It looks like we have Steven Wright now.

And here we have full convoy now.

Steven Wright, 48-year-old forklift truck driver.

[ANGRY SHOUTING]

♪ Yeah, look at this, look at this!

♪ It's 'orrible, innit, eh?

– ♪ It's 'orrible, innit, eh? – ♪ Look at this, look at this

♪ It's a wicked bloody world!

– ♪ It's a wicked bloody world! – ♪ Look at this, look at this

– ♪ It's 'orrible, innit, eh? – ♪ It's a wicked bloody world!

♪ It's a wicked bloody It's a wicked bloody

♪ It's a wicked bloody It's a wicked bloody world! ♪

Bloody hell!

I couldn't see, couldn't see.

I don't think he was in that van.

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDS AND WHISTLES)

[MUSIC STARTS]

♪ In October

♪ And December of last year... ♪

Oh, there you are. Are you actually going on?

– Well... – ♪ In October... ♪

– I thought Claire said you weren't. – ♪ And December of last year... ♪

– But that was when she was in there... – ♪ In October... ♪

..she said, 'Oh, and tell her to do a rant...'

– ♪ October of last year – ♪ And December of last year

– ♪ In October... ♪ – They're all starting to come out now.

– ♪ October of last year – ♪ And December of last year

♪ Well, this is the third time That Steve Wright has appeared in court

♪ Well, this is the third time...

♪ But it's the first time that he's formally entered a plea

♪ Well, this is the third time That Steve Wright has appeared in court

– ♪ Here at Ipswich Crown Court – ♪ But it's the first time he's formally

♪ But it wasn't until two o'clock this afternoon

– ♪ That he stood up – ♪ That he stood up

– ♪ Dressed in a black suit – ♪ And blue tie

– ♪ Shirt – White, black and blue

– ♪ Shirt – ♪ Suit, tie

– ♪ And blue – ♪ White

– ♪ Black – ♪ Tie

– ♪ And spoke – ♪ And spoke

– ♪ Clearly – ♪ Clearly

– ♪ And confidently – ♪ And confidently

– ♪ When he was asked how he would plead – ♪ When he was asked

– ♪ To each of the five counts – ♪ To each of the five counts

– ♪ Of murder – ♪ Of murder

– ♪ They were read out in this order – ♪ Order

♪ Well, this is the third time

♪ That Steve Wright

– ♪ The third time – ♪ Has appeared in court

– ♪ But it's the first time – ♪ This is the third time

– ♪ But it's the first time – ♪ Has appeared in court

– ♪ But it's the first time... ♪ – [CHORAL SINGING]

– ♪ He arrived here – ♪ And he stood up

– ♪ And he stood up – ♪ Dressed in a black

– ♪ Suit – ♪ Tie

– ♪ Shirt – ♪ White

– ♪ Blue – ♪ White

– ♪ Tie – ♪ Shirt

– ♪ And spoke – ♪ Clearly

– ♪ And confidently – ♪ And confidently

– ♪ When asked about how he would plead – ♪ Plead

– ♪ Plead to the five counts of murder – ♪ They were read out in this order

♪ Tania Nicol

– ♪ The first to go missing – ♪ The second to be found

– ♪ The second to be found – ♪ Although she was the first girl

♪ To go missing

– ♪ Gemma Adams – ♪ Her body was the first to be found

– ♪ On the 3rd of December – ♪ December

♪ Anneli Alderton

♪ Whose body was found in Nacton

♪ Was found in

♪ In Nacton

♪ Paula Clennell

♪ Annette Nicholls

♪ Their bodies were found of course in Levington

♪ Just a few hundred yards apart

♪ Just a few hundred yards from each other

♪ In Levington

♪ We know that all women

♪ Were working in the town as prostitutes

♪ And all their bodies were found naked

♪ To each one of those counts of murder

♪ Steve Wright...

♪ Er, pleaded

♪ Not guilty. ♪

Timothy Langdale QC and Peter Wright QC,

who is the prosecuting, er, barrister here,

have been in discussions with the judge

about where and when this trial will be held.

In the end, it was decided that, if possible,

it should stay here at Ipswich Crown Court,

and it will begin on the 14th of January 2008.

PRODUCER: Seems OK?

Yeh. It's fine.

JULIE: Pink one – number seven.

Yes! [CHEERING]

[LAUGHTER]

Right, next... next one – orange, 47.

– Yes! – Oh, yeah!

– Gotta be in it to win it! – Yeah. True.

We're happy the trial's started, but we're a bit worried about

what sort of reaction the media's going to have.

We're worried about the media, yeah.

Whether we get 'em all camped out on the doorsteps again.

Yeah. I just wish it had been in London, you know? It's just...

bringing it all back.

Blue, number 42.

– Oh, that's me! – Oh!

We're better now, better now.

This time... This time last year, it was a complete nightmare.

But it's... but it's creepy, you know? It's...

I hope we find out where... where he killed them.

And I just... I just pray and hope

that those girls weren't killed in the flat. I really hope they weren't.

Um...

Pink, 189.

ALL: Aww!

♪ We're really upset... ♪

189.

ALL: Aww.

♪ I just wanted him... It to be all over and to know

♪ Whether

♪ Were those prostitutes killed in that house?

♪ He was only there for ten weeks

JAN & JUNE: ♪ Ten weeks

♪ He was only there for ten weeks

♪ Ten weeks

♪ It's just a chance The one place in the...

♪ In the whole world

♪ Where he...

♪ Went to live for ten weeks

♪ Could have been anywhere

♪ Could've been next door to you

GORDON & RON: ♪ Could've been next door to you!

♪ Everybody would rather it all went away

♪ They must have sleepless nights

♪ I know I do. ♪

It was awful.

I was very upset.

In the evening, I just...

You know, it was winter, like now,

so I just...

closed the curtains and, erm...

It really did make me very depressed and very low.

– I think there's... – I just feel it's a like a dream still.

I... I don't know. I don't think I've really come to...

– I think... – ..to accept it.

I...

try to...

I just...

keep going.

Right, we got a blue one, 201.

– Ooh, yes! – [CHEERING]

You do get the odd, um, sightseer coming up.

They come up in cars

and they stop and take a photograph, which is really sick.

You can actually see them.

Nobody walks down that road with... with... And I'm the same.

..without staring at that house.

Even now, people still do it.

During the day, I had quite a bit of trouble with children here,

you know, just coming and really looking.

One of them threatened me, talking about, erm,

'He's a murderer' and everything, and 'You should move', and...

Pink, 189.

ALL: Aww.

♪ We're really upset

♪ 189

ALL: ♪ Aww

♪ I just wanted him...

♪ It to be all over and to know

♪ Were...

♪ Were those prostitutes killed in that house?

♪ He was only there for ten weeks

GORDON & HELEN: ♪ Ten weeks

♪ He was only there for ten weeks

♪ Ten weeks

♪ It's just a chance The one place in the...

♪ In the whole world

♪ Where he...

♪ Went to live for ten weeks

♪ Could've been anywhere

♪ Could've been next door to you

♪ Could've been next door to you!

♪ Everybody would rather it all went away

♪ They must have sleepless nights

♪ I know I do. ♪

[KAZOO BLAST]

Oh, it has actually scared, er...

a lot of the, you know, neighbourhood,

you know, permanently.

You know, it's a blot on the landscape, sort of thing.

I mean, Mary won't even come down now, will she, walk?

– No. – My daughter.

She said, 'I'm not walking up there.'

When they boarded the house up, that's when I really didn't like it.

We're actually... we're thinking of moving, weren't we?

– Well, you were. – Well, I was,

because it... it just depressed me.

It depressed me living next door, you know, and I just sort of thought,

'Oh, I wanna be in a nice area.'

I was thinking about moving once.

I was, yeah.

I'm moving, 14th of March.

Pink, 189.

ALL: Aww.

♪ We're really upset

– ♪ 189 – ALL: ♪ Aww

♪ I just wanted him...

♪ It to be all over and to know

♪ Were...

♪ Were those prostitutes killed in that house?

♪ He was only there for ten weeks

♪ Ten weeks

♪ He was only there for ten weeks

♪ Ten weeks

♪ It's just a chance The one place in the....

♪ In the whole world

♪ Where he...

♪ Went to live for ten weeks

♪ Could've been anywhere

♪ Could've been next door to you

♪ Could've been next door to you!

♪ Everybody would rather it all went away

♪ They must have sleepless nights

♪ I know I do

♪ They must have sleepless nights

♪ I know I do. ♪

[DOG BARKS]

Oi! Eamon, can you come and control this dog?

[BARKING CONTINUES]

How many times can they film number 79?

They're here every day. Waiting to film... you know, film for the news.

It ain't fair on all the residents, it really isn't.

There's no-one here. There's blacked-out windows and doors.

You can't... We've got, um, Jan and Tim who live opposite...

erm, who's on our committee of the Neighbourhood Watch.

And I think they're getting very upset about it all.

You said they just used the same van all the time, didn't they?

Pardon?

They used the same television van, the crews.

– No. – Didn't they?

– No. – I thought that's what you said.

No. No.

♪ Impossible to report

♪ Cos I can't use I can't use the word 'semen'

♪ Can you not?

♪ Can't use the word 'semen' at lunchtime And I can't use it at six o'clock

♪ I can use it at ten o'clock But I can't use it before teatime... ♪

– Ha! – ♪ So what do you use instead?

♪ So how the hell...? I don't know, really What can I say? ♪

– 'Love juice'. – (LAUGHTER)

♪ Bodily fluid

♪ Well, it's just taste reasons, cos we

♪ We can't basically have, erm

♪ What our editors call a 'Mummy, what's semen?' moment

♪ Erm... in the trade

♪ Male bodily flu...

♪ Male body fluid

♪ Sounds as if he was going round Spreading it all over Ipswich! ♪

– 'Boy juice'. – (LAUGHTER)

Ready? Three, two one.

♪ Using his hands to demonstrate, Peter Wright explained

♪ How forensic scientists had extracted Steve Wright's DNA

♪ From other... ♪

Ready?

♪ Using his hands to demonstrate, Peter Wright explained

♪ How forensic scientists had extracted Steve Wright's DNA

♪ From other ce... ce...

♪ Cellular material found in the... ♪

Told you, didn't I?

HELEN: I think he probably did do it.

GORDON. He must have done it, really.

JUNE: I think he did it, definitely did it now.

– I think they'll find him guilty. – I think he'll be found guilty, but like

– I think he did it. – It's circumstantial.

But he's gonna get away with it.

It's only circumstantial evidence they've got.

I couldn't sit there and say, 'Yeah, he done it.'

– Really? – Well, yeah.

I still reckon he's gonna get away with it, you know.

SOUND GUY: Still running.

♪ Using his hands to demonstrate, Peter Wright explained

♪ How forensic scientists had extracted Peter... ♪

Steve Wright!

Steve Wright, Peter Wright.

– Whenever you're ready. – OK.

Just running up.

♪ Using his hands to demonstrate, Peter Wright explained

♪ How forensic scientists had extracted Peter Wright's... ♪

Peter Wright, Steve Wright!

This is the problem with this bloody trial!

Too many Wrights.

– ♪ I think he probably did do it – ♪ He must have done it, really

♪ I think he did it, definitely did it now

– ♪ I think they'll find him guilty – ♪ I think he'll be found guilty but like

– ♪ I think he did it – ♪ It's circumstantial

♪ But he's gonna get away with it

♪ It's only circumstantial evidence they've got

♪ I couldn't sit there and say, 'Yeah, he done it'

– ♪ Really? – ♪ Well, yeah

♪ I still reckon he's gonna get away with it, you know? ♪

Ready. Three, two, one.

♪ Using his hands to demonstrate, Peter Wright explained

♪ How forensic scientists had extracted Steve Wright's DNA

♪ From other DNA material found on both gloves... ♪

Cellular material, not DNA material.

Christ this is just... this is so complicated.

We're running.

♪ How many takes did we say we were gonna do on this one? ♪

– Dunno. – OK.

SOUND GUY: Well, that's running up.

BOTH: OK!

♪ Using his hands to demonstrate, Peter Wright explained

♪ How forensic scientists had extracted Steve Wright's DNA

♪ From other cellular material inside the thumbs of both gloves

♪ Doctor Hau said that within that, he'd found... ♪

Within that cellular material.

– It's running up. – Shall we just say 'sperm'?

– Ha! – Sorry.

But I mean, I think... I think he'll be found guilty, but, like...

And the thing that for me... Erm, it's circumstantial.

But I mean, it's the blood on his jacket there.

It's just...

♪ Two spots of blood

♪ It's just too much

♪ It's too much evidence

♪ And if he's like, you know, seems to believe

♪ That that was all a coincidence What a hell of a coincidence

♪ Two would be a coincidence

♪ Three, it's sort of like... But four, five

♪ Is pushing the realms of coincidence, isn't it, I think?

♪ Pushing the realms of coincidence, isn't it, I think?

ALL: ♪ Two would be a coincidence

♪ Three, it's sort of like... But four, five

♪ Is pushing the realms of coincidence, isn't it, I think?

♪ Pushing the realms of coincidence, isn't it, I think? ♪

[BIG BEN CHIMES]

[DOG BARKS]

There isn't anyone there. It's probably the film crew. Bailey, get down!

♪ Steve Wright denies killing five women who worked as prostitutes

♪ In Ipswich in late 2006

♪ With the latest from the day's proceedings

♪ Here's Simon Newton. ♪

For a second day, DNA expert Dr Peter Hau from the Forensic Science Service

arrived at Ipswich Crown Court in a van.

Today, the jury heard more about this pair of gardening gloves.

They were found inside a high-vis jacket

recovered from Steve Wright's house at 79 London Road.

JUNE: Oh, the house. It's here.

♪ Using his hands to demonstrate, Peter Wright explained

♪ How forensic scientists had extracted Steve Wright's DNA

♪ From other cellular material inside the thumbs of both gloves

♪ Dr Hau said that within that cellular material

♪ He found the incomplete profile matching the fifth victim

♪ The chance of it not being hers

♪ One in a billion, he said. ♪

NEWSREADER: Simon, thank you.

ALL: ♪ Using his hands to demonstrate, Peter Wright explained

♪ How forensic scientists had extracted Steve Wright's DNA

♪ From other cellular material inside the thumbs of both gloves

♪ Dr Hau said that within that cellular material

♪ He found the incomplete profile matching the fifth victim

♪ The chance of it not being hers

♪ One in a billion, he said

♪ The chance of it not being hers

♪ One in a billion, he said

♪ One in a billion, he said. ♪

JULIE: Shoosh! It's gotta be him, then.

– That's the one. – Seriously?

Yeah. That's fine. That made sense. Did that make sense to you?

Yeah?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's all right. That all works. We got it.

We don't see the prostitutes any more.

No. They've cleaned up the area.

The police have assured us that, um, they're gonna keep this up.

– But I think that's... – Cos that... cos that's the main idea.

They're trying to get them off the drugs. Cos that's the problem.

They're trying to do that, but our main job at the moment

is trying to keep, keep er... keep our... keep our priorities straight.

The people who live round here just becau...

are just as entitled to all the good things in life

as the prostitutes are.

They do all sorts of things for these girls.

They all even offer 'em free dentistry.

Whereas your ordinary people... persons...

– has a job finding a dentist. – ROSEMARY: Yeah.

Before these murders,

the police didn't do anything round 'ere.

– It was a tolerance zone, really. – Yeah.

You see, the police have ignored the problem, really.

– They have. They would deny it, but... – They will deny it,

but they have ignored... they ignored the problem of the prostitutes.

It was sort of six years ago

when Portman Road started expanding its football team

and a new, er... a new stadium went up

that the prostitutes seemed to come up this way.

We had reported the prostitutes. I confronted one.

I said, 'Get out of my road. I'll call the police!'

– But I... – She said, 'Call the police!'

– But I informed... – And I did.

– Once they'd all been found and they... – They're so... so sort of very hard...

– They... – Hard-nosed, aren't they?

We'd a girl at the bottom of me drive – she was actually leaning in the car.

I said, 'Do you mind sort of moving off?' I sw...

Well, I swore at her. [CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY] I admit.

Anyway, she's saying, like, 'If you keep on at me,

'I'll sort of get my people to come and burn your house down.'

I immediately reported that to the police, but never got anything...

They never came to interview me.

I don't want girls, erm, doing what they did on the streets.

They weren't just getting in people's cars –

they were doing it down the alleyways and everything else.

I don't want my children to see that.

You know, the worst thing is, it brings... It brings the guys that want the girls.

You know? And that's the... that's the danger of it.

I was making phone call after phone call each night at one stage.

There was just no getting rid of them.

The only time we got rid of them is... because they're not 'ere any more.

Yeah, and the police really did get a sma... a smacked wrist.

It's taken five murders to make 'em pull their finger out.

Concentrate their minds.

I got approached a couple of times and said,

'Oh, are you, you know, looking for business?'

'No, thank you, darling.' You know? 'Good night!'

I did say one night to you, didn't I,

'She might not ever come back.'

No, it's a big shock to the... to the neighbourhood.

I don't really think anybody thought that they were bad girls.

You know? Well, I mean, they were in a way,

but they weren't hurting anybody else, were they?

It was only theirselves that they were hurting, weren't it?

Well, it's like the other girl what we used to see up the caff, innit?

Yeah. What's happened to her?

Well, we don't know what's happened to her.

Very, er... very...

– er, petite girl. – Lovely-looking girl.

– Lovely. – Which a lot of them are, in't they?

HAYLEY: Yeah. No, the Old Bill didn't really bother us, and that's the truth.

It was no big... no big deal at all, really.

VICKY: No.

HAYLEY: Now and again they'd stop us,

and that was just because their bosses had told them

– they oughta do something about it. – SARAH: Yeah, they had to.

HAYLEY: Cos I mean, there was a lot of us out there at one time.

SARAH: Yeah, there was.

HAYLEY: Must have been 30 girls out there.

Not just Ipswich – Colchester, Chelmsford.

All over the place.

[MUSIC STARTS]

– ♪ We've all stopped – ♪ We've all stopped working now

♪ We've all stopped now

♪ And it... and it has been because of the murders

♪ It has, yeah That's why, like, we all stopped

♪ I stopped, like, a month...

♪ Saying that, I've got regulars

– ♪ Got regulars – ♪ That, phone, and we see

♪ You know, won't work the street But we got a few regulars

♪ That keep us going

ALL: ♪ You know, won't work the street But we got a few regulars

♪ That keep us going

♪ Ever since the murders took place

♪ Like, there's no point goin' down there for one, because

♪ Just get arrested

♪ And you just get stopped all the time

♪ They weren't, like, nicking us

– ♪ They were, like, nicking the men – Stopping all of the men

♪ You know, won't work the street But we got a few regulars

♪ That keep us going

♪ You know, won't work the street But we got a few regulars

♪ That keep us going

♪ I wanna get myself clean

♪ If I could do anything, you know

♪ Like, get myself clean for them, almost Do you know what I mean?

♪ That's what I... I've done

– ♪ Because it's like – ♪ Getting myself clean

♪ There's been help since the murders

♪ There's been help given us, yeah

♪ There's girls that in't took it Then there's girls that have took it

♪ And the girls that took it A lot of 'em are doing really well

♪ I come here four times a week

♪ It's a year later now, and yeah We've come about three times

♪ And what with other organisations and stuff

♪ You know, there has been help there You know

♪ With other organisations and stuff You know

– ♪ There has been help there – ♪ We've all stopped

– ♪ We've all stopped working now – ♪ We've all stopped now

♪ And it... And it has been because of the murders

♪ It has, yeah That's why, like, we all stopped

♪ I stopped, like, a month before the murders

♪ We got a few regulars

♪ Phone, and we see

♪ You know, won't work the street But we got a few regulars

♪ That keep us going

♪ You know, won't work the street But we got a few regulars

♪ That keep us going

♪ And just do, like, instead of hundreds of pounds' worth of drugs a day

♪ Now all I do is, like, £15 worth of drugs a day now

– ♪ I don't use it every day any more – ♪ But if I get the money

♪ Maybe occasionally now I still use

♪ I'm still trying to get over that hurdle

♪ But from where I am now

♪ To what I was a year ago

♪ I didn't think I'd ever get there

♪ I never thought I'd get back to where I am now

♪ I really didn't

♪ Like, I've never been this big before, either

♪ I was like a size fuckin' 6

– ♪ I know I've put on weight – ♪ We've all put on weight, yeah

♪ We wasn't... It took all that

– ♪ For anyone to start helping us – ♪ Yeah, that's what upsetting

♪ Yeah, that's what upsetting

ALL: ♪ Yeah, that's what upsetting

♪ Yeah, yeah, that's what upsetting

♪ Yeah

♪ It took those... Took five girls

♪ That's what makes me feel I wanna get clean for 'em

♪ Because it's took their lives

– ♪ Took their lives – ♪ For them to think about and go

♪ 'Come on Let's get these girls off the street'

– ♪ Come on – ♪ Let's get these girls off the street ♪

Anglia Tonight's Simon Newton has been following events in court today.

Simon?

Well, we expect the judge to conclude his summing-up tomorrow lunchtime,

and we expect the jury to retire to consider its verdict

sometime tomorrow afternoon.

Oh, well, tomorrow afternoon.

You better be here tomorrow afternoon.

[PA CHIMES]

OVER PA: All parties in the case of David Hughes, Court Three...

Now it's a waiting game.

You... we're all waiting together.

[PA CHIMES]

They're doing this now just to tease us, aren't they?

OVER PA: All parties in the case of Ronnie Tretton, Court Four...

It's the phoney war sort of stage –

everyone's just sitting around waiting for it to, um... happen.

Everyone's, like, gasping over their... gazing over their laptops at each other,

to check whether anyone else has got something you haven't, and...

then it's all gonna go ballistic.

– [PA CHIMES] – ..at some point.

OVER PA: All parties in the case of Slawomir Kuczewski, Court Five please.

Ooh, it's that momentary pause every time it goes off – it's awful.

I promised I'd make cakes for my office if the verdict wasn't in by today,

so this morning I was baking, and, you know,

and so there's muffins in the office. Yes – muffins!

We're all very family-oriented now, and everyone's looking out for each other

and buying each other coffee.

As soon as that verdict comes in, it's gonna be absolute mayhem.

It's dog-eat-dog as soon as that verdict comes out, guaranteed.

I can promise you that.

– What's happening? – Dunno.

OK.

– See you later. It's one of those ju... – Is it a jury question?

I don't know. Peter Wright's just walked out and gone like that to them.

So everyone's going.

♪ Because that's what we do

♪ This could be the verdict

♪ Could be the verdict

♪ Could be the, could be the

♪ Could be the verdict

♪ Could be the verdict. ♪

Hello, Victoria.

♪ They think it might be a verdict

♪ And the digilink's gone down

♪ I've told the desk. ♪

OK. Good luck. Bye.

Broke!

♪ They think it might be a verdict

♪ Could you give level again, please, Colette?

– ♪ And the digilink's gone down – ♪ Yep

♪ I've told the desk

♪ The jury of nine men

– ♪ Could you give level again, please? – ♪ Yep

♪ The jury of nine men and three women started...

– ♪ And the digilink's gone down – ♪ ..deliberating

– ♪ Could you give level again, please? – ♪ Yep

♪ The jury of nine men and three women started...

– ♪ And the digilink's gone down – ♪ ..deliberating

♪ They think it might be a verdict

♪ I've told the desk

♪ It might be a verdict

♪ Hey! ♪

STEVE: ♪ We're not on the satellite

CHOIR: ♪ Hey!

– ♪ Hey! – ♪ We're not on the satellite.

♪ Hey! Hey! Hey, hey!

♪ Hello, Victoria

♪ What day is it? Thursday?

– ♪ They went out – ♪ They went out Tuesday, didn't they?

♪ They think it might be a verdict

♪ And the digilink's gone down

♪ They think it might be a verdict

♪ And the digilink's gone down! ♪

♪ It was... it stretched over that, er, remarkable...

CHOIR: ♪ Six

♪ Six and a half weeks

– ♪ Back in 2006 – ♪ Ten

♪ And over ten days

CHOIR: ♪ Four

♪ Now it see...

♪ He did say that he had sex with four

♪ Of those women

– ♪ One – ♪ Can you come to me?

– ♪ Guilty – ♪ Can you come to me?

♪ Now we hear it's guilty on count one That's Tania Nicol

– ♪ He has been found guilty Of killing Tania

♪ Can you come to me?

♪ Tania was the first to go missing That was October 30th

♪ Or maybe even the early hours of the 31st

– CHOIR: ♪ Two – ♪ Can you come to me?

CHOIR: ♪ Guilty

♪ Yes, we are getting the verdict through now

♪ He was caught on an...

– ♪ Steve Wright has been found guilty of the murders

– ♪ Automatic number plate recognition camera

♪ He's also guilty of killing Gemma Adams

♪ So that's two guilty verdicts so far

– ♪ There are five counts of course – ♪ Accused of five counts

– ♪ We know he's guilty of the murder... – ♪ Three

– ♪ Guilty – ♪ Again he's been found guilty

– ♪ Of the murder of Anneli Alderton – ♪ It's guilty on count three as well

– ♪ That's guilty – ♪ The jury of nine men and three women

♪ Spent six and a half hours deliberating this verdict

♪ Gemma Adams and Anneli Alderton There are two more counts to go

– ♪ To consider their verdict... – ♪ Two more counts to go

– ♪ Should all agree – ♪ Four – guilty

♪ Four – guilty... ♪

– [OVERLAPPING REPORTS] – ♪ And there's just one more verdict

♪ One more verdict to come out now

♪ We only have to hear the fifth count now

♪ We only have to hear the fifth count now

♪ Members of the jury will be telling the court now

♪ We only have to hear the fifth count now

– ♪ We only have to hear the fifth count – ♪ Members of the jury

– ♪ Will be telling the court now... ♪ – [OVERLAPPING REPORTS]

♪ We only have to hear the fifth count now

ALL: ♪ Members of the jury will be telling the court

♪ Now. ♪

[FRANTIC MUSIC]

ALL: ♪ Guilty Steve Wright found guilty

– ♪ On all five counts of murder – ♪ Now he's been found guilty

♪ On all five counts of murder

– ♪ Guilty – ♪ Steve Wright's guilty on all charges

– ♪ Of murder – ♪ All five charges of murder

♪ Steve Wright's been found guilty on all charges

♪ A very unremarkable man on the surface of things

♪ A man who has been responsible now

♪ Guilty of killing

– ♪ Guilty – ♪ And guilty of killing Paula Clennell

♪ Now we know that he has been found guilty

– ♪ On all five charges – ♪ Guilty

ALL: ♪ Steve Wright's guilty on all five counts of murder

– ♪ Guilty on all five counts of murder – ♪ Guilty

♪ Steve Wright's guilty on all five counts of murder

♪ Guilty on all five counts of murder

♪ Steve Wright A very unremarkable man

♪ On the surface of things

♪ A man who has

♪ Been responsible now We know

♪ For one of the most disgusting

♪ Serial killings

♪ In British history

♪ We're still awaiting news on Steve Wright's sentencing

♪ It's thought Mr Justice Gross will pass it

♪ First thing tomorrow morning

♪ This is Kelly McCormack Outside Ipswich Crown Court

♪ For Classic FM. ♪

(LAUGHTER)

OK?

OK. OK, bye!

I'm staying connected. I'll keep my headphones on, too.

Well! It was quick, wasn't it?

And the adrenaline! At the moment, I'm shaking.

It's a bit... [GIGGLES NERVOUSLY]

That's the only thing I can say.

[GIGGLES NERVOUSLY]

Guilty or not guilty?

[TV NEWS THEME]

Here you are.

TV: On Five News, a reminder of our top story now.

49-year-old Steve Wright has been found guilty

– of murdering five women... – Oh!

– ..working as prostitutes... – Guilty, then.

What?

– Didn't say guilty, did it? – Yeah.

Ooohhh!

– That's one for me. – [CHUCKLING] Yeah.

They should hang him.

A bit of a surprise, weren't it? I wish I was at court now.

I was just... hands up to the police, really.

Just having a celebratory glass of Scotch.

Well, that were a surprise, weren't it?

TV: Well, just playing you there the police interview with Steve Wright,

who just consistently said 'no comment'.

Now, our correspondent James Cope

was given access to Steve Wright's home at number 79 London Road, Ipswich...

Whoa! Bloody 'ell.

TV: ..in the heart of the town's red light district.

It's not!

It was... It was a shock to hear it so quickly.

I couldn't believe it.

Oh, no, it's gonna be floodlights through the door again and not being able to see.

I don't see why they're here.

Yes, I'm feeling a lot better now it's... well, more or less over, isn't it?

Common sense has prevailed.

– [NEWS THEME TUNE] – Oh.

Ooh, Mary's outside.

MARY NIGHTINGALE, ON TV: I'm in Ipswich tonight,

as Steve Wright is convicted of one of the most notorious serial killer murders.

Shall I go and ask Mary if she wants some chilli?

I'll go and get me autograph book. I like Mary Nightingale.

She's a cracking bit of stuff!

Quick, Janet, gimme a pen.

You can say you've seen her now – in person, not just on the telly.

For what it's worth!

Could've done without not seeing her, really.

Oh, there's some apple crumble in there, Tim, if you want any next, all right?

There's...

sort of a numbness of that period for Ipswich –

us not wanting to even think about it, really.

Cos people are quite in denial

in what happened in Ipswich in 2006 and 2007.

It's a hell of a thing for us to accept.

Well...

..it makes you...

shrink a bit.

I think we've been scarred... forever.

Women will never trust men again,

and men will always wonder what women are thinking.

We... You know? People 'ave been...

..yeah, affected by this.

And I guess they always will.

Do you know... I've almost got this mental picture

of when those girls got up to Heaven

that St Peter said, 'Come in',

and they... and they said something like,

'Do you mean it's over?

'Do you mean it's finished?

'Do you mean I'm...

'they can't hurt me any more?'

They certainly weren't angels. [CHUCKLES]

You know, a lot of talking about them being lovely girls and everything.

In our experiences, they were... well, foul-mouthed slags, really...

– Yeah. – ..who'd stab you as quick as...

Well, I think that's a bit of an exaggeration,

but they did pester you as well. I mean...

They'd easily rob you as much as anything else.

– Yeah. – Their whole attitude with us...

..makes it really hard...

..for me to have much sympathy, you know, for, you know, what happened.

I can imagine for, erm, people that lived outside the area

where the prostitutes hadn't affected anyone,

you would get a different opinion.

You would get people feeling sorry for them and so forth.

Erm, but to actually...

For people that lived round it, the prostitutes made our lives hell.

Why should we feel sorry for them?

You know, there's plenty of other people in the world

that need to be thought about other than...

other than the girls.

You know, I feel sorry for the families, but not them.

You know, it was just a pain in the arse. They were a complete pain in the neck.

You know, they're... they're better off...

..ten foot under.

That's a horrible thing to say, isn't it?

But what's happened's happened.

But I'm not... I'm not sad.

You know?

I'd still shake his hand. I'd love to just shake his hand and say,

'Thank you very much for getting rid of them.'

I... I would, if, you know...

At the end of the day, if you had the courage to do it.

Then, um...

..I'd shake their hand if I had the courage, but I wouldn't do it.

But I can have that thought in my... in my head to say,

'Yeah, thank you very much.'

– Oh, God! – Wow!

– Yes. – I think he's peaked today.

Well, probably about, like, Wednesday, don't you think, Inga?

I've still gotta get the trophy back.

Oh, God!

You can always joke that you've got to take it back to re-present it.

But it is – not bein' rude – it is the best house on the street.

It is. Yet again!

– He's got his boat. – Yeah.

This is a very tidy hedge as well, apart from the odd bit of...

– Elder? – Elder, or is it, um...?

– I think it's a bit of, um, forsythia. – Is it?

Hiya. Oh, we got the whole crowd today.

Can I get a picture of you with your, er...?

– Good morning. – Good morning.

Hi. I'm... I'm Chris Tomlinson. I do PR for Ipswich in Bloom.

– Oh, right. – Oh, hi there.

I'm on the committee, and Alan Dench, who's taking photos.

I'm Julie, I'm on the committee for the Neighbourhood Watch.

I've got your name written down on the pad.

– Yes. Yeah. He done a lovely job again. – Absolutely. Doesn't it look nice?

– Where are the...? Have they started? – Loads of people have.

– Inga! Good morning. How nice to see you! – Hi!

Yes. Aww!

– Are you all right, Alfie? – Yeah. Go on.

– He done a lovely job again. – Inga Lockington?

Course I do, course I do. You're in mufti today.

I didn't recognise you. You've not got on the gold?

No, I've let go of my gold.

[LAUGHTER]

This is Inga Lockington. Used to be our Mayor.

– How are you there? – Very good. How are you?

– Not too bad, not too bad. – Hello.

– This is Jean, my wife. – Do you live here as well?

The gardener's wife! Nice to meet you.

– Nice to meet you as well. – Nice to meet you.

– This is Jean. – I love these – look.

They're the first, like, cornflowers, aren't they, that we've seen.

Wow! And look at that.

– Yeah. You gotta put... – Bless him.

I think best front garden is ten-plus.

– Best front? What do you think? – I just he's just put in a lot of effort.

– It's so... Yeah. And look. – It's the overall...

It's nautical...

– religious... – Yeah.

..floral. All of human life is here. [CHUCKLES]

– Animals on the top, on the window. – Oh, look!

Little birds. Little seat.

Let's have a little go.

Oh, no, I'd weight it down.

Lovely. Yeah. Fantastic!

You've got dogs on the window.

Where?

Oh! Oh, God! I love it.

Ohh! Ohhh! Oh-ho!

It is fabulous. It's just... Look – gnomes!

Yeah. It's sort of... It's all... The overall effect is stunning, isn't it?

I think it's the best... it's the best front garden. It is the best.

It's a bit of Lourdes in London Road.

Knocks spots off of last year's!

I don't know where they're going yet, but there you are.

I gotta say, it's Jesus that does it for me 'ere.

The thing is, this...

ALFIE: I can't leave 'em. I gotta take 'em in night-time.

Excuse me! If it wasn't for Jesus, you wouldn't have any of this.

– No, no. – He provided all of this.

– The Lord. – He's done... It really is lovely.

I think we ought to note that the Steve Wright house,

you would never know. And it's got a gorgeous little...

I don't... I don't wanna mention 79 at all. I don't want...

– You don't want 'em in it? – Oh, no, I want them in it,

but we do it as a row. We do it as a group.

It's been a problem, though, hasn't it? Do you know what I mean?

We bring it up at those meetings with the police.

'When is it going to be unboarded?' And it is. Hurrah!

Yes. This is the 79 anonymous.

As far as I'm concerned, you know, it's all got to... all got to normal now.

You know, back to normal, the way... the way it was.

You know, we just wanna... wanna see an end... end to it,

and London Road getting back to being London Road,

instead of being known for someone where the...

– where the murderer lived. – GORDON: One, two, three...

♪ And I like it, I like it I like it, I like it

♪ I la-la-like it La-la-like it

♪ Here we go

♪ Rockin' all over the world! ♪

People sayin' that the house should've been demolished,

but I think that's taking it a bit... bit too far.

So I think that's good that someone is living in the place.

It'd be nice if she came to our quiz nights

and joined in the neighbourhood, really,

but, erm... you can't push people in, can you, so...

I would like in maybe two, three years... It's gonna take time, I know,

cos of all red tape and what-have-you and, um,

you know... town hall... munchkins!

..is for the world's press to come back and say, 'This was then, this is now.'

Hello, Alecky! You know where everything is, don't you?

First lots of burgers are all out, and sausages.

Just further down, there's a table with cups and things on.

And you can put your drink and that.

There's a table. A big bucket – ice bucket.

And you can put your drinks and that all in there.

And just help yourself to everything.

And then it's table and chairs all the way... all down there

for you to sit down. All right?

– Hello! – You all right?

This is all part of our drive for...

neighbourliness, if you like.

Yeah, get everybody together.

At's m... Instead of being in a town...

You don't have sugar?

..you've sort of got now a village atmosphere.

I mean, we know so many people now, you know?

It's a terrible shame, but we're, er...

reaping the benefits of what's happened.

Always a... always a silver lining!

We should have been more of a community then,

when all, when all... all the prostitutes were hanging about.

Everybody's doing their gardens up now, there's no prossies on the road.

All the... famili-ation, you know?

We get on, and so it's fine now. Everything's fine.

Look, we've turned this around, like.

And this is... this is what is possible.

It's become so much more than a Neighbourhood Watch, really.

It's become a real...

– A real sense of community. – ..residents' association-cum-community

pulling together and having fun together.

And we're doing a huge big Christmas party, hopefully, in December,

with a disco, and getting the community together again there.

You'd be quite welcome to come...

♪ And I like it, I like it I like it, I like it

♪ I la-la-like it La-la-like it

– ♪ Here we go – It'd be nice to see ya

♪ Rockin' all over the world! ♪

Er, I don't wanna pre-empt anything... anything that Julie's going to say,

but I would like to introduce you to Julie,

who has worked nonstop to organise this event.

Therefore we feel we oughta give her the microphone now

to let her make a complete fool of herself!

[LAUGHTER]

Oh, no, she's gonna make a fool of herself last, apparently,

so you better hang on till the end.

Anyway, here's Julie to give out some prizes...

Carol's doing the announcing.

Carol's going to do some ann... Oh, Carol!

I'd like to introduce you to Carol as well, then, in that case.

Carol is one of our local neighbourhood councillors,

and she was one of the judges today in the competition, and...

Well, I've lost the plot of who's going to speak now,

so I'll get out the way and leave you to these two.

CHOIR: ♪ Wa-a-ay!

♪ Wa-a-ay! ♪

Er...

Hi, everybody.

This is the second annual, er, traditional party in Dodge's garden

after judging the best gardens.

And they just get better and better every year,

and Julie must just do a better and better job every year.

♪ Anyway, it was a real pleasure today

♪ Really good fun

ALL: ♪ Anyway, it was a real pleasure today

♪ Really good fun

♪ And more and more people have made more and more effort

♪ To make London Road look beauteous

ALL: ♪ Wa-a-ay!

♪ Wa-a-ay!

♪ Look at me, please I want smiles! ♪

[DING!]

♪ Look at me, please I want smiles! ♪

[DING!]

♪ Yeah, we have official photographers We have Gemma

♪ We're gonna have an exhibition and everything

– ♪ No, we're not! – CAROL: ♪ We are, we are! ♪

[FALSE LAUGHTER]

– (LAUGHTER) – CAROL: ♪ OK

♪ We're going to do, er, the best front garden

♪ And we've picked as the runner-up... Runners-up

♪ This garden where it was very difficult

♪ It was a real challenge to make this front garden

♪ Beautiful

♪ Because, basically, it's all parking

♪ Er, it looks absolutely lovely And once you look round the cars... ♪

I'm gonna come second, then.

♪ Fantastic Terry and June

ALL: ♪ Wa-a-ay! ♪

– Well done, Tel! – Well done!

ALL: ♪ Wa-a-ay! ♪

CAROL: Really, really wonderful effort. Well done.

♪ Look at me, please Everyone smile! ♪

[DING!]

♪ Look at me, please Everyone smile! ♪

[DING!]

CAROL: ♪ Er, now, there is

♪ The

♪ Absolute winner

♪ Er, now, there is

♪ The

♪ Absolute winner

♪ The absolute winner

ALL: ♪ The absolute winner

♪ And it is...

♪ For the second year running I do believe

♪ And it is

♪ Alfie!

♪ Yes, it's Alfie! ♪

Oh, well done!

♪ Wa-a-ay!

♪ Everyone smile!

♪ Everyone smile!

♪ Everyone smile!

♪ I think this is absolutely fantastic!

♪ So many people here tonight

♪ I haven't counted you all

♪ Seeing everybody have a great time

♪ Seeing everybody have a great time That's what it's all about

♪ That's what it's all about

♪ I would like to congratulate

♪ Everyone that's really worked hard on their gardens

♪ Even the people that haven't won

♪ It doesn't matter It... it doesn't matter

TEARFULLY: ♪ It's sharing their gardens with everyone else

♪ It's sharing their gardens with everyone else

♪ And really working hard

♪ And making London Road what London Road is

♪ A fantastic road!

♪ Wa-a-ay! ♪

Look at me, please!

♪ A fantastic road!

♪ Wa-a-ay!

♪ Everyone smile! ♪

[DING!]

♪ I'd just like to point out as well It does seem

♪ That God is smiling on London Road

♪ Cos if you'd seen the weather forecast for today

♪ Well, look at it now

♪ Well, look at it now

♪ Well, look at it now

♪ Well, look at it now

– ♪ Well, look at it now – ♪ Well, look at it now

– ♪ Well, look at it now – ♪ Well, look at it now

– ♪ Well, look at it now – ♪ Well, look at it now

♪ Well, look at it now

♪ Well, look at it now! ♪

SARAH, ORIGINAL AUDIO: So will you ask us questions?

ALECKY: Yeah, exactly. I'll ask you questions,

and if I ask something that you don't want to answer,

then obviously that's fine, and just tell me to...

Christina said you'll tell me to, you know, shut up anyway!

– [LAUGHTER] – ALECKY: So...

Erm... I wonder whether you can tell me...

I know, erm,

what you're, you know, involved in, work-wise...

– SARAH: Used to be. – HAYLEY: Used to be.

– ALECKY. Oh. – HAYLEY: We've all stopped working now.

ALECKY: Oh, right, OK.

VICKY: And it has been because of the murders.

SARAH: And it, and it has... Yeah, that's why, like, we all stopped.

I stopped, like, about a month before the murders.

VICKY. I've got... Saying that, I've got regulars.

We've got the phone and... You know, won't work the streets,

but we've got a few regulars that keep us going, so...

SARAH: Ever since the murders took place, like,

there's no point goin' down there for one, because all the cars get stopped,

and you just get arrested all the time.

VICKY: They weren't, like, nicking us – they were, like, nicking the men.

SARAH: They were just stopping all of the ...

[AUDIO FADES, MUSIC STARTS]

♪ I've got nearly 17 hanging baskets

♪ In this back garden

♪ Believe it or not

♪ Begonias and petunias

♪ And, um, impatiens and things

♪ Marigolds, petunias

♪ And we got up there

♪ We got Busy Lizzies

♪ Hanging geraniums, all right, see

♪ There's all sorts in that basket anyway

– ♪ Hanging lobelias – ♪ Petunias in a basket

♪ Hanging baskets

ALL: ♪ That's a fuchsia

♪ Um, there is a special name

♪ I just

♪ Call them lilies

♪ They're a lily type

♪ There is a special name And for the first time this year

♪ I've got a couple of, erm...

♪ Baskets

♪ Begonias and petunias

♪ And, um...

♪ Impatiens and things

– ♪ Begonias – ♪ Marigolds

– ♪ Petunias – ♪ And

– ♪ Petunias – ♪ We got Busy Lizzies

– ♪ Hanging lobelias – ♪ Impatiens and things

♪ Hanging lobelias

– ♪ Hanging baskets – ♪ Rhubarb

– ♪ Variegated ivy in there –♪ The old-fashioned Marguerites

– ♪ The daisies – ♪ Which makes a nice show

– ♪ The roses – ♪ And then you've got, erm...

– ♪ Old-fashioned Marguerites – ♪ Sky blue

– ♪ The daisies – ♪ Whatever they are

♪ I've got nearly 17 hanging baskets In this back garden

– ♪ Believe it or not – ♪ Begonias

♪ Petunias

– ♪ Petunias – ♪ Impatiens and things

– ♪ Impatiens – ♪ Begonias

♪ And petunias

♪ And, um...

♪ Impatiens and things

♪ Begonias

♪ And petunias

♪ And, um...

♪ Impatiens and things

♪ Impatiens and things

♪ Impatiens and things

♪ Impatiens

♪ And things. ♪

(APPLAUSE)

(CHEERING)

(WHISTLING)

(CHEERING CONTINUES)

(WHISTLING)

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