Serial killer Steve Wright sentenced to 40 more years for schoolgirl’s murder

Steve Wright admitted to abducting, sexually assaulting and murdering Victoria Hall, as well as attempting to kidnap Emily Doherty A serial killer already serving a whole-life prison sentence for the murders of five women has been further sentenced to 40 years for the killing of Victoria Hall, 17, and the attempted kidnap of Emily Doherty, 22, in 1999. Steve Wright took Hall’s life for reasons few will ever understand, Mr Justice Bennathan told him as he passed sentence at the Old Bailey on Friday.