Dead Men Walking (True Crime) by Bill Wallace

and he might have been stopped. It was discovered also that his name and date of birth had been entered incorrectly into the national crime database when he was being checked for his job at Soham. Thus, his record did not appear. If it had been done correctly, he would not have obtained the job at Soham and Holly and Jessica would not have died that day.
    Maxine Carr was released from prison after serving twenty-one months. She was provided with a secret new identity in order to protect her from attacks by the public.
    In September 2005, Huntley was scalded by boiling water thrown at him by another inmate, quadruple murderer, Mark Hobson. Then on 5 September 2006, he was found unconscious in his cell at Wakefield Prison, having taken an overdose. He had previously overdosed at Woodhill Prison in 2003 before his trial. He survived but as his cell was searched afterwards, a tape was found on which it is believed he had made a full confession. He had made the tape in exchange for the drugs with which he tried to kill himself and the prisoner who provided the drugs was planning to sell the tape to the media on his release. On 28 January 2008, Huntley was moved to Frankland Prison in County Durham, where in March 2010, he was attacked again by a fellow inmate, and although reports stated that his throat had been slashed, he was back in prison the next day.
     

     
    Steve Wright
     
    They called him the Suffolk Strangler or the Ipswich Ripper and for six terrifying weeks in late 2006, he went on a murderous rampage in the quiet East Anglian town of Ipswich, killing five prostitutes.
    Wright’s childhood had been fairly exotic. Born in 1958, he lived as a child in both Malta and Singapore where his father, a military policeman, was posted. However, while he was still young, his parents divorced and each remarried. Wright moved in with his father and his new wife. After he left school in 1974, aged sixteen, he became a chef on ferries sailing out of Felixstowe in Suffolk. Five years later he married and in 1983, his son Michael was born. However, he and his wife divorced in 1987 after which he worked in a succession of jobs including as a steward on the cruise-liner, the QE2 , a lorry driver and a barman. At the time of the murders, he was working as a forklift truck driver.
    He married again in 1992, a marriage that lasted less than a year and then had a child with a different woman later that year, while he was running a pub in south London. He was sacked from this job because of his gambling and excessive drinking. He also stole £80 from the till and it is known that he had such substantial debts around this time that he was declared bankrupt.
     
    He twice tried to commit suicide, firstly by carbon monoxide poisoning and in 2002 he survived a deliberate overdose of pills.
    In 2001, Wright started a relationship with Pamela Wright in Felixstowe and the couple moved to Ipswich in 2004. When Pamela started working nights, Wright became frustrated by their lack of sex. He had used the services of prostitutes since his days at sea, and as he became increasingly frustrated, he began to frequent the prostitutes of Ipswich’s red-light district, in the middle of which he and Pamela conveniently rented a flat.
    The first girl to be reported missing was nineteen- year-old Tania Nichol, an Ipswich girl who had disappeared on 30 October 2006. Forty-eight hours after she had last been seen, her mother called the police. On 8 December, her body was found by police frogmen in a river near Copdock Mill. She had not been sexually assaulted, but because of her lengthy submersion in the river it was difficult to establish the cause of death. Nichol had been using heroin since the age of sixteen when she left home to live in a hostel and like many of the ‘working girls’ in the area, she worked as a prostitute to fund her drug habit. When her habit had led to her being thrown out of her job in one of the town’s massage parlours, she had