Steve Wright’s brother has revealed how his brother has told him he knew missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, a 25-year-old, who disappeared at work, while showing a client round a house in Fulham.
19:00, 21 Mar 2026Updated 21:19, 21 Mar 2026
Serial killer Steve Wright admits to his brother he knew Suzy Lamplugh(Image: SWNS)
The Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright has admitted to his brother he knew Suzy Lamplugh.
David Wright, 69, who persuaded his brother to finally admit murder, believes there could be more to come. He now fears his brother could be one of Britain’s biggest serial killers. The builder boss from Suffolk says Wright could be behind 20 murders, including killings overseas while he worked on the QE2.
“He told me he knew Suzy Lamplugh,” David told The Mirror. “He does remember her. I spoke to him about that, he just remembers her. I’m sure there’s other girls involved. I think he could be responsible for high teens, early 20s. I just don’t understand what he did with the bodies.”
Suffolk serial killer Steve Wright in 2008 and again in 2026. (Image: PA)
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He points to the three unsolved suspected murders of sex workers in Norfolk and says police in Scotland had also been in touch with him about a series of murders north of the border.
Dave said he ‘wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest’ if he ended up as ‘Britain’s biggest serial killer: “Yeah. I know what’s coming. That wouldn‘t surprise me in the slightest, not in the slightest,” he sighed.
Police are being urged to look again at unsolved murders around the UK since Wright confessed to murder. Officers from the cold case unit at The Met Office are currently looking at any potential links with Wright and Suzy Lamplugh who worked on the QE2 at the same time in the 80s.
Her brother, Richard Lamplugh, 66, gave an exclusive interview to the Mirror just days after we revealed detectives were reviewing links between Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright and his sister Suzy.
Richard Lamplugh has made a direct appeal to Wright (Image: Channel 5)
Speaking from his home in Kemnay, Scotland, Richard, said: “Even if there’s a slim chance it’s worth investigating. He should be interviewed in prison. It can’t do any harm. If he knows anything then I’d hope he would tell us.”
Suzy, 25, vanished on July 28th 1986 after going to meet a client known as “Mr Kipper” in Fulham, London. Her body was never found and in 1993 she was declared dead, presumed murder.
In 2002 Scotland Yard detectives named killer John Cannan as the main suspect but the Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to charge him. Richard now accepts police may have been fixated on the wrong man.
And in a direct plea to Wright, he begged for him to end his family’s misery, saying: “If you know anything then please tell us.” School technician Richard added: “Maybe we were barking up the wrong tree with Cannan? We’ve only ever acted on what police have told us.
“We only want to know what happened to her and where her body is. That would give us some sort of closure, we’d be able to bury her where we wanted, not where the killer wanted. It’s not going to bring Suzy back, but we still want answers even though it’s been 40 years.
Missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh who vanished in July 1986 after going to see a client called ‘Mr Kipper’ in a house in Fulham, London.(Image: PA)
“If he has killed Suzy then it’s sad that he’s then been free to go on and commit many other murders because they didn’t stop him earlier. These men are evil, they’re cruel. They kill women and then leave their families with nothing, no answers. Wright is never going to be released. He has nothing to lose. It wouldn’t hurt to interview him. It wouldn’t hurt to speak to him in prison. These evil men seem to like the control they have, but if you know then please tell us.”
Cold-case homicide unit detectives have been carrying out a review of Operation Phoebus, the original investigation into Suzy.
It came after the Mirror uncovered new witnesses who told us about Wright’s time working as a steward on the luxury liner while Suzy was a beautician.
And we told how Suzy was murdered on the day Wright’s ship the QE2 docked in Southampton She has worked with Wright on the luxury liner.
Fellow shipmate Paul Tennant, a former waiter, said previously that Wright “tried to become a friend of Suzy’s all the time”. And Wright’s ex-wife, Diane Cole, said she saw Wright twice chatting to Suzy in the corridor by their cabins when they all worked on the liner.
Suzy’s brother is not the only relative to reach out to Wright pleading for answers. Kurtis Pratt, 30, hopes his family will get the “peace” they crave too. Speaking to The Mirror previously, he urged the inmate, who is serving a whole life tariff, to break his silence about Kellie Pratt’s fate, saying: “Do you know where my mum’s body is?”, adding all Wright’s gruesome secrets must be “eating him alive”.
Kurtis Pratt says he wants Wright to give his family ‘peace'(Image: Andy Commins)
His mum vanished aged 28 in 2000, one of three unsolved cases involving sex workers in Norwich, who used to drink at Wright’s pub including Michelle Bettles in 2002 and Natalie Pearman, in 1999. Amanda Duncan, 26, went missing in Ipswich in 1993.
But Wright’s brother says police in Scotland have also been looking at murders across the border and Wright did have a Scottish girlfriend and had trips there in the 90s and beyond. Seven women were killed between 1991 and 2005.
In 2005, Emma Caldwell, 27, a sex worker with a heroin addiction, was found naked and strangled in an isolated wood. She had been picked up by a man and driven 38 miles away from her usual haunt on the street.
Diane McInally, 23, was discovered in woodland in Pollok Park, Glasgow, in October 1991. She had been beaten and strangled. Karen McGregor’s body was discovered in bushes in the car park of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow in April 1993.
A man stood trial for the 26 year old’s murder but the jury returned a verdict of not proven. Leona McGovern, 25, was throttled and stabbed. Her body was found near the red light district in Glasgow.
Jacqueline Gallagher, 26, was found dead near a bus stop in Bowling, West Dunbartonshire in June 1996. The death of a fifth sex worker, Marjorie Roberts, 34, was also investigated by detectives.
The mum-of-three was found in the River Clyde in August 1995. But in 2015 Police Scotland said “no criminality could be established”.