Police have arrested Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright over the unsolved 1999 murder of 17-year-old girl Victoria Hall, who was strangled and dumped in a water-filled ditch after disappearing while walking home from a nightclub.
The 63-year-old, who is serving a whole life tariff for murdering five women, was arrested at Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire yesterday.
Suffolk Police had reopened an investigation into the teenager's death after receiving new 'information from witnesses' which they described at the time as significant.
Steve Wright, (left) who is serving a whole life tariff for murdering five women, was arrested at Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire yesterday in connection with the death of Victoria Hall (right)
A Porsche-driving businessman was cleared of her murder in November 2001 after a two week trial at Norwich Crown Court.
Suffolk Police confirmed yesterday that the man had been arrested on suspicion of murder and had been taken into custody for questioning. Wright was first named by the Telegraph.
Miss Hall left her home in Faulkeners Way in Trimley St Mary, at 9pm on September 18, 1999, to join friends at the Bandbox nightclub in Felixstowe.
She left the club with her best friend Gemma Algar, 17, at 1am the next morning, stopping to buy chips from the Bodrum Grill takeaway.
The pair walked back along Trimley High Road towards their respective homes while eating chips and singing, before splitting up at the junction of Faulkeners Way at 2.20am.
A short time later Miss Algar heard screams, but assumed it was someone messing around.
Miss Hall's parents Graham and Lorinda Hall reported her missing in the morning and a huge hunt for her got underway.
Her naked body was found by a dog walker on September 24 in a water-filled ditch around 20 miles away in Creeting St Peter near Stowmarket, Suffolk.
Tests revealed that Miss Hall who had just started her second year of studying A levels at Orwell High School, Felixstowe, had not been sexually assaulted.
Adrian Bradshaw, then aged 27, who owned the Felixstowe Flyer free newspaper was charged with murder after one of the biggest ever investigations to be undertaken by Suffolk Police.
He had spent part of the night at the same club as Miss Hall and was dropped off by a taxi a few hundred yards from where she disappeared.
Other witnesses also heard 'horrifying' screams followed by the roar of a 'throaty' car exhaust, which prosecutors claimed was from Bradshaw's Porsche 944.
The prosecution also alleged there was a near match between soil samples recovered from his car and the ditch where Miss Hall's body was found.
But the evidence was undermined when a geologist called by the defence said the sample could have come from elsewhere in East Anglia.
As a result jurors took less than 90 minutes to find Bradshaw not guilty.
Suffolk Police had reopened an investigation into the teenager's death after receiving new 'information from witnesses' which they described at the time as significant
A Suffolk Police statement said today: 'Police investigating the unsolved murder of a teenage girl from Trimley St Mary - which took place over 20 years ago - have made an arrest as part of the inquiry.
'Victoria Hall, aged 17, was
