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11:08 Mr Justice Gross adjourned the court, thus ending one of the biggest trials ever staged in Suffolk.

11:07 Mr Justice Gross thanked counsel, court staff and Suffolk police.

11:06 "It demands a whole life order and that's the order that I make. You may go down."

11:05 "Two of them in the macabre pose in which they were found."

11:05 He told Wright: "You selected the victims for sexual activity while they were incapable of resistance and killed them, stripped them and abandoned their bodies."

11:04 Mr Justice Gross added they involved a substantial degree of planning.

11:04 He said the murders had caused "public revulsion".

11:03 Mr Gross said it was a targeted campaign of murder involving five deaths.

11:03 The judge said he "reached this somber conclusion" for a combination of resons.

11:01 Wright was told the offences were so serious he would have to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

11:01 He said the murders of the women had caused much sorrow in their families. "As a result, there is only one sentence - that of life inprisonment."

11:00 "Why you did it may never be known but as the jury have concluded disbelieving your denials, murder them you did."

10:59 "You are responsible for their deaths," he added. "You killed them, stripped them and left them in rural or semi-rural locations."

10:59 The judge said: "The five women were addicted to drugs that led them to prostitution in order to fund their addictions. Drugs and prostitution exposed them to risk, but neither killed them. You did."

10:58 He added they were especially vulnerable beecause of their dependance on drugs.

10:58 Mr Justice Gross said: "The women in question were vulnerable in the sense they were exposed to the risk of their occupation."

10:57 He said between October and December 2006, Wright conducted a campaign of murder, selecting five prostitutes from the streets of Ipswich.

10:57 Mr Justice Gross sentenced Steve Wright to a whole life order. He will spend the rest of his life in prison.