Gemma Adams, 25
The last time Brian Adams saw his daughter, Gemma, in Ipswich town centre he told her: “You know we love you.” Gemma, a piano-playing chatterbox as a child who was lost to her family through heroin and prostitution before Wright killed her, replied: “I love you too.”

Over the last year of her life Gemma had cut herself off from her family.Mr Adams and his wife, Gail, try to remember their daughter as the “bright and beautiful” little girl who joined the Brownies and “always cared for other people”. But they also remember what happened to her and have set up a fund to raise money to help vulnerable teenagers.

Tania Nicol, 19
Former friends from Chantry High School described Tania as a friendly little girl. One remembered sitting with her at the back of the class giggling. “I think we got told off quite a bit,” she said.

After leaving school Tania took several jobs, including working in an hotel in Ipswich, but friends said that she drifted into drug use soon after finishing her education. Jim Duell, 60, her father said: “It’s just a horror story. Tania started off on cannabis. As soon as she started she got lazy and it developed from there. Then she started taking heroin. We would question her about it but she was always in denial, always evasive.”

Anneli Alderton, 24
The mother of one was five months pregnant when she was murdered. The night before she disappeared, she told police that she was working the streets so that she could get money to buy Christmas presents for her child. She was described by friends as a “lively, free spirit”, but her mother, Maire, said that she changed from an “excellent student” to a drug addict after the death of her father. On December 4 Anneli failed to keep an appointment with her probation officer, something that she had never done before.

Crucially, her body was found on dry land and clues on it would lead to Wright’s arrest.

Annette Nicholls, 29
“Netty” grew up hoping to be a beautician, obtaining an NVQ and working in a beauty parlour. She was from a close family who supported her in her ambition. But three years before her death Annette began using heroin and, as her cousin remarked, “it changed her almost overnight”. To fund her habit she turned to prostitution, but was known to be embarrassed about her work on the streets.

Her body was found in woodland near the village of Levington on December 12 by a police helicopter that had been sent to the scene after the discovery of the body of Paula Clennell.

Paula Clennell, 24
Paula had a difficult childhood, problems at school and time in an education referral unit near where her body was found. To fund her habit she worked the streets around Ipswich Town Football Club each day. One friend said: “The drugs were the be-all and end-all to her. She would thieve to get the money. She was known for it. She stole from me. She always said she would die before the age of 25.”

Paula spoke to police after the disappearance of Ms Adams and Ms Nicol. She also told a television interviewer that she had become a “bit wary about getting into cars”.

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