A man has appeared in court accused of kidnapping and murdering a 17-year-old Suffolk girl in 1999.
Victoria Hall’s body was found in a ditch five days after she disappeared as she walked home from a nightclub in Felixstowe on September 19 that year.
Hall, from Trimley St Mary in Suffolk, was last seen alive when she became separated from her friend at around 2.20am, around an hour after the pair left the Bandbox nightclub.
Her parents, Lorinda and Graham Hall, woke up in the morning to find their daughter had not returned home and a missing persons inquiry was launched.
On September 24, her body was discovered in Creeting St Peter, around 40 kilometers from where she was last seen.
Steve Wright is accused of killing the teenager and appeared at Ipswich Magistrates Court on Monday via video link from custody.
The 66-year-old man, who lived in London Road, Ipswich, was also charged with the attempted kidnapping of a woman the previous day.
Wright rested his arms on a table and stated his name to the court as Steve Gerald James Wright.
He also gave his date of birth during the hearing, which lasted less than five minutes, and confirmed that he could hear the process and that he was not recording it.
The court was told that Wright is accused of kidnapping Mrs Hall in Felixstowe on September 19, 1999, and her murder in Stowupland on the same date.
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He is also accused of the attempted kidnapping of Emily Doherty in Felixstowe on September 18, according to the charges read out in court.
A 22-year-old woman reported that a man approached and followed her between 3am and 4am on September 18, 1999 in High Road East, Felixstowe, Suffolk Police said.
Wright was not asked to enter pleas to the three charges.
He was remanded in custody and is expected to appear at Ipswich Crown Court for a preliminary hearing on Monday.
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