The three-part Murder in the Red Light looks into the decades of murder cases of vulnerable sex workers that rarely made the headlines in the UK and were not police priorities. However, the discovery of five women’s bodies in two months in the British town of Ipswich in 2006 changed that, as it emerged the killer was one man, Steven Wright (aka ‘The Suffolk Strangler). The series will explore the lives of the women, how police changed their approach after the Ipswich case and examines the public and media response.
