London Road Page #3

Murdering.

When they did the house

questions, you know, that was really...

I thought

he was gonna be arrested.

There was a knock on the door. Terry said,

"You're wanted. In the lounge. Police. "

He was doing every house.

Every single house in London Road.

Er, your mind goes blank. "Where was

you on Monday night?" sort of thing.

Can't remember exactly the date. And you

think, "Well, where was I? What did I do?"

Then he said, "What colour...? Have you

got blue eyes?" I said yes I think.

Yeah, you said yes.

Then he said,

"Have you got a hairy chest?"

And I looked at him and thought,

you know, "Where is this leading to?"

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...

And that's when it all started

It all kicked off

Well, I got woken up by the telephone

Me son rung me on his mo...

On, on my home phone

I said, "Where are you?"

He said, "I'm down the road but you need

To tell the police that I'm your son"

I said, "Why? What have you done?"

And that's when it all started

It all kicked off

He said, "No, no, no

We're not allowed down the road"

And lo and behold there was police

There was cameras, there was my son

It all started

It all kicked off

You looked up the road

And it's all you saw

Was like a tented, a tented area

You looked up the road

And it's all you saw

Was like a tented, a tented area

Erm, outside number 79

Erm, outside number 79

You looked up the road

And it's all you saw

Was like a tented, a tented area

You looked up the road

And it's all you saw

Was like a tented, a tented area

Erm, outside number 79

Erm, outside number 79

And I thought, "Oh, no

There's another prostitute been found"

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...

But, erm, 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, erm...

And that's when it started

It all kicked off

And didn't we...?

Then we started hearing on the news

That someone had been arrested there

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

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...

This is London Road. This is

where the second suspect was arrested.

So I think Steve Wright.

Oi... Oi!

Oi!

Right, you want me

to talk into that at the beginning?

They're not very happy

about the... intrusion.

Sorry?

Sam?

- No!

- Stand back!

Stand back!

'I'm here in London Road.

The white tent... '

Oh, we're inside there.

All a little bit weird.

'Next door there's

the concerned residents looking on. '

- Please, further back.

- Keep rolling, Seb. Keep rolling.

'A very heavy police presence.

'They're very unhappy at our being here.

We are trying to get you some shots. '

'Assert the barrier with our bodies

'in respect of where the line is.

'Sorry.

'Excuse me. Back behind the tape. '

- Yeah, we're trying to get a link.

- Ten minutes.

'Get back! Come on! Move!

'I'm being apprehended

by the police.

'Get back! Get back!'

'... 79 London Road

where a tented area has been erected.

'The suspect has been arrested,

Mr Steven Wright. '

Can we go down that way?

I'm afraid you have to go round.

- Back round 'ere?

- Yes. Sorry about that.

It's all right.

- When's this gonna be over?

- I don't know. Wouldn't be able to say.

- Friday?

- I wouldn't know. I would be guessing.

- Saturday?

- I'd be guessing at Saturday as well!

- Sunday?

- No. I dunno.

Monday's Christmas!

It can't be Monday!

- Can we just come here?

- Yeah. No worries about that bit.

It's against the law. I don't know whether

I'm coming or going round this area!

You're not allowed

through that bit basically.

Have you got the man that done it then?

- They won't even tell us.

- Won't they? I know the girls.

Mind you, flippin' half the town,

if you were to pull 'em in,

probably went with them girls.

Except for yours truly.

- Hopefully not yourself?

- No!

Cos I won't give 50 quid

to a little scaggy little whore.

No. Anyway, looks like my relief's

turned up, so I'm gonna get a coffee.

- Can't be a bad thing. Take care anyway.

- OK. And you.

I think it was policing

as we'd like to see it every time.

Bobbies standing at your house,

making sure no nasty people got near you.

You'd feel like

the Prime Minister, wouldn't you?

Yeah. The road was ever so quiet and

nobody stole our festive wreath this year.

Yeah.

If 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...

journalists are saying.

The police

don't tell you anything, do they?

They're not allowed to, are they?

We had no post. No bin men.

Erm... if we had post,

the postman had to be escorted by police.

Inside the cordon.

'It's half-past ten.

'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.

'Steven Wright will appear

inside Ipswich Magistrates Court

'within the next half hour.

'Our colleague, Chris Eakin,

is at the court

'and Chris, talk us

what we're expecting to happen.

'The building over here is just

the main police station in Ipswich,

'but it is this very dull and drab,

ominous building,

'which is the Magistrates Court

and which will be the focal point,

'the centre of attention

for at least the next hour.

'T-T-This is now the moment

that Steven Wright faces the charges,

'if formally charged with

these five murders of the five women. '

All of this 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 him come along

Like, with the police sirens and that

And they were, you know

None of the photographers caught him

Caught any photos of him

Or anything but...

Just waiting to get a glimpse, really

Just waiting to get a glimpse, really

His name is Steven Wright.

He's 48. He's a fork-lift truck driver.

He's from London Road in Ipswich.

That's pretty well it.

I tell you, if I get hold of him...

huh, huh, huh!

I really...

I've never seen anything like it.

I said to my brother

I said, "What's going on?"

I said, "What's happened?"

He says, he says, "Cos the bloke"

He said

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

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