Killer of 5 prostitutes found guilty

[4GS]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=517219&in_page_i d=1770&ct=5

[redcrx]

there were just too many coincidences werent there. He admitted to sleeping with them on the days they died didnt he.

or perhaps it was his girlfriend? following him about and getting rid of the competition?? hmmmm

[raysparx1]

Hi John, and what will he get? life? what does that mean 7,8,10 years, and all those poor girls families have been given real life sentences, no time off for good behaviour for them, they have to serve the sentence till they die.

[banned-dot]

there is a similar story brewing here in Wigan, the poilce were digging up the back garden of a blokes house on sunday and there is a rumour they found a body of a prostitute but it has only been briefly mentioned on the local news so far

[4GS]

Pity he won't hang..... unless he does the decent thing and does a 'fred west' or 'Dr Shipman'

[Abdulmajid]

The only thing that has surprised me with the whole case is when the overwhelming evidence against Steve Wright was mounting up, he didn't enter a plea of insanity.

"M'Lud, they were strumpets. They were sexual filth spreading foul disease in the guise of Mary Magdalen. Wh0res M'lud, all wh0res, filthy dirty wh0res.

The Good Lord Shepherd came to me and said 'Go forth and Kill the filth'. And M'lud, that is what I did. I answered our Lord, just as Noah answered him and fortook all those lives"

Or something like that.

[Barmaid]

Raysparx makes an important point, but Tim Langdale QC (defence) has suggested a minimum term of 30 years rather than 5 life sentences. I suspect that he will never see the outside ever again.

And Wardy, the reason he didn't plead insanity was because he always maintained he was not guilty. I don't suppose it helped that when confronted with some fairly forceful forensic evidence he chose to go "no comment".

Anyway, sentencing is tomorrow and with any luck, I shall get to sit in!!

[Quoi]

Dunno 'bout you but I find this really odd - why after spending a lot of time with prostitutes did he suddenly decide to kill 5 in a short space of time without really trying hard to cover it up - I wonder what flipped his switch?

[MONTCRIEFF49]

good point

QUOI

[rabbitygirl]

What I do not understand is the judge leaving sentencing to tomorrow.

So, at no time during the trial has the judge thought 'if he is found guilty I'll sentence him to xx number of years'?

Obviously not. He needs one more night to mull it over. Strange.

[Barmaid]

I think the Judge acted appropriately Rabbitygirl. It also gave defence counsel the opportunity to speak to his client following the verdict so that he could make appropriate submissions on his behalf (not that, in reality, he said much). Defence would also need to consider the possibility of psyche reports.

The Judge is not meant to form a view on sentence during a trial until after it is over and it is only when the verdict is announced that the Judge can form a view.

[intriguediam]

Not being funny barmaid but isn't that the same when someone calls on the phone and you say 'one moment please i will put you on hold and check' and you go off and put the kettle on before returning to state the obvious, if you catch my drift?