"It's devastating what happened to everyone else, absolutely devastating. You can't help thinking, if they had taken me seriously, Vicky could have survived, but certainly if they had found him sooner the five other women would still be here."
"There was this car going backwards and forwards past me, loitering. It parked up, and I thought the driver was having a wee. He was just standing by the car. He saw me and I saw him. The car door was open, and the engine was running. I ran and jumped over a wall and knocked on someone's door and said 'let me in'. No one answered."
Emily Doherty, aged 22, experienced an attempted abduction in Felixstowe on 18 September 1999 when a car loitered and a man allegedly approached her. She fled, climbed a wall, and knocked on a door seeking help; no one answered. Police were called, but she felt officers treated her like a silly little girl and failed to investigate fully. The following day Victoria Hall, 17, was kidnapped and murdered. Steve Wright later admitted the 1999 kidnap and murder and was convicted of multiple killings in the Ipswich area in 2006. Doherty believes earlier police action could have prevented subsequent deaths.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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