Steve Wright fit to plead over killing of teen in 1999

Victoria Hall was yards away from her house near Felixstowe when she was last seen in 1999

Steve Wright is fit to enter a plea having been charged with kidnapping and murdering 17-year-old Victoria Hall in Suffolk in 1999, a court has been told.

The teenager disappeared on her way home from a nightclub in Felixstowe and was last seen near her home in Trimley St Mary on 19 September that year.

Her body was found 25 miles (40km) away by a dog walker in a water-filled ditch in Creeting St Peter, near Stowmarket, five days later.

Wright, 66, previously of London Road, Ipswich, would return to Ipswich Crown Court on 2 December, a brief hearing on Tuesday was told.

The defendant is also accused of the attempted kidnap of a 22-year-old woman on 18 September 1999.

Steve Wright, shown in a court sketch from a previous hearing, is next due in court in December

Victoria had been on a night out with a friend at the Bandbox nightclub in Felixstowe on the evening of 18 September 1999.

The girls left the venue at about 01:00 BST the following morning and parted ways at about 02:20 - the last time Victoria was seen alive.

Her parents, Lorinda and Graham Hall, awoke in the morning to discover their daughter had not returned home and a missing persons inquiry was launched.

Victoria's body was discovered in Creeting St Peter on 24 September that year.