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Gemma Adams, Tania Nicol, Anneli Alderton, Paula Clennell, and Annette Nicholls
Those are the names of the five women, sex workers each one, who were murdered in 2006. I vividly remember attending the vigil here in New York in December of 2006 when their names were read among the many names of sex workers who had been killed that year.
Yesterday Stephen Wright was convicted of their murders. He will be sentenced today. He faces life in prison.
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Elizabeth
this story has been covered in depth here in england, both at the time of the murders and now with the trial and conviction...
i have to say that i always bristle when the case is referred to as the "ipswich prostitute murders"...as if these women were defined by one aspect of their lives and of course, that being a "prostitute" even worse a street walking prostitute somehow makes them a "different" breed of human being.
with the conviction of steven wright, the BBC has been much kinder and more sensitive in taking the time to read out each woman's name with each update.
i still wonder why journalists feel that now that someone has been convicted of the pre meditated murder of these women, they are finally worthy of the dignity of having names.
more about these women