did he also kill Suzy Lamplugh? asks thefront page of the Daily Mail

Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright could have claimed missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh as his first victim.
As the 49-year-old misfit was convicted of killing five prostitutes in a six-week frenzy, Scotland Yard detectives told Miss Lamplugh's parents that they plan to review the case which has remained unsolved for 22 years.
Wright faces dying in jail when he is sentenced today for the Ipswich murders 14 months ago.

The Telegraph asks the same question

Miss Lamplugh’s father Paul has told The Daily Telegraph that police have confirmed to him the serial killer is a potential suspect over the death of his 25-year-old daughter, who worked with Wright on the QE2 and stayed in touch with him before she vanished in 1986

The Mirror carries an interview with his ex wife

I MARRIED A MONSTER

The ex-wife of Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright told yesterday of her years of hell with the man she branded a monster.
Diane Cole, 53, described the vicious beatings, abuse and mental torture she endured at his hands and added: "I knew how bad he was but never knew he was capable of this evil. He turned into a monster."

The Guardian reports

'He was one of the regulars. We didn't suspect him. But he was the killer'

Tracey Russell has several reasons to consider herself lucky, but one stands out. Around December 14 2006, after the bodies of five of her fellow sex workers had been found but before anyone had been arrested, she agreed to have sex with their killer.
Tracey and her best friend Annette Nicholls had agreed, after the first women went missing, only to go with regulars, but Steve Wright was someone they both knew well; Tracey had had sex with him several times in the three years he had been using Ipswich prostitutes - not a matter of weeks, as he testified in court.
On that occasion, however, she did not. Having gone back to his flat at 79 London Road and agreed the fee, she had prepared to have sex on his bed, but they were disturbed by a bang on the door or from a car outside, and he told her to get out.

My son should die for crimes

THE dad of Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright said last night his evil son deserves to DIE — adding: “He must be some kind of demon.”
Devastated Conrad Wright, 71, wept as he went on: “I understand how the families would want the death penalty.
“If it was my daughter I’d feel the same. What kind of monster is he? He has changed beyond recognition. This person is not the son I knew


And in the light of the verdict the Times reports

Strangler conviction triggers DNA debate

His conviction, on forensic evidence, last night reignited the debate on the rapid expansion of the national DNA database, which holds the profiles of at least four million people in Britain.
Ministers, police and prosecutors praised the database for providing the breakthrough evidence that led to the arrest of Wright after his DNA was found on the body of his third victim.

The Guardian stays with a crime theme for its lead

Send fewer to jail, Straw urges courts

Jack Straw, the justice secretary, last night made an urgent appeal to magistrates to send fewer people to jail as the prison population in England and Wales soared past 82,000 to an all-time high.
The official prison population reached 82,006 yesterday - just 21 places short of the system's official capacity - fuelled by a jump of 2,300 in prisoner numbers since the new year.
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Straw said the numbers were already outstripping official forecasts that were only published in December, and added that he could not rule out a further extension to the early release scheme that has seen thousands released 18 days before the end of their sentence

The Independent continues with yesterday's theme

Power to the people is its headline

The UK's energy companies could be fined billions of pounds after a wide-ranging inquiry was launched yesterday into claims that consumers are being ripped off.
Armed with sweeping powers under the Enterprise Act, investigators acting for the regulator Ofgem will have the right to raid offices and seize documents.
They will be looking for evidence that the inflation-busting price rises announced this year have been co-ordinated or that smaller rivals are being thwarted from competing by hidden transactions. Ofgem announced the inquiry after British Gas revealed a 500 per cent rise in profits to £571m, four weeks after increasing its prices.

Prices are also the main concern of the Express

Petrol to hit £1.50 a litre

The paper also carries a picture of Gazza on its front page,


The story makes the lead in the Sun

COKE-crazed ace Paul Gascoigne stunned hotel staff before being sent to a psychiatric unit by answering his door in the buff — with “MAD” scrawled on his forehead.
The fallen soccer hero’s only companions while he remained holed up in his room on a two-month drugs and booze binge were battery-operated PARROTS.
Ex-England ace Gazza, 40, would talk to one of them as if it were real, a source revealed.
He also wandered around the hotel with them under his arm, getting them to squawk “f*** off” to fellow guests.

The Telegraph reporting

Fears are growing for the long term well-being of Paul Gascoigne after he was detained under the Mental Health Act.The football world united in a show of support for "Gazza” with fans and former players sending messages of goodwill to a man regarded as the golden player of his generation. Gascoigne’s post-football life has been marred by health scares, scuffles with photographers and a rollercoaster private life.

Official apology after CIA 'torture' jets used UK base reports the Independent

A British territory in the Indian Ocean was used for American "torture" flights, despite categorical denials of Britain's involvement from both Tony Blair and Jack Straw, the Government admitted yesterday.
The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, had to make a humiliating apology to the Commons after it emerged that the US failed to tell British officials that two CIA rendition flights carrying suspected terrorists landed on the island of Diego Garcia in 2002. Six years on, one of the suspects is still being held by the US at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The other has been released

The Guardian adds

The government's deep unease over an issue which has strained relations between the two close allies was made clear by Miliband's disclosure that he had asked his officials to compile a list of all flights on which rendition had been alleged. Bellinger said the Bush administration would look at the list "and see how we can appropriately respond".

The Telegraph as does most of the papers reports

Serb mob storm US embassy in Kosovo protest

A group of 300 masked demonstrators broke away from a mass protest organised by the government and smashed their way into the building as police looked on.Fires were started on two floors of the building and the mob threw furniture from an office window as they were egged on by hardline elements in the crowd of 300,000 people. Flames quickly spread.
The building had been closed in advance of the protest and diplomatic staff were told to stay at home.

The Times reports

Supermarket giant under attack over call to ban cheap booze

Tesco was branded as hypocritical last night over its call for a ban on the sale of cheap alcohol, after figures showed that it has slashed at least three times more from the price of leading beers, wines and spirits than its rivals in the past year.
Research for The Times reveals that Britain’s biggest supermarket has cut an average of 10 per cent off the price of more than a dozen leading brands since February 2007.
Over the same period the prices of the same products at J Sainsbury have fallen by 2.8 per cent and Asda’s have risen by 1.3 per cent.

The Mail meanwhile reports that

Doctors call for ban on bargain booze to beat binge drinking 'epidemic'

A binge drinking "epidemic" fuelled by longer licensing hours and cheap alcohol is gripping the country, senior doctors said yesterday.
In an unprecedented report into the state of the nation's drinking habits, the British Medical Association says 24-hour licensing laws have led to rising alcohol consumption and spiralling health-related problems.

Bugging of MP on prison visit did not break the rules, inquiry finds reports the Guardian

Police officers knew they were covertly bugging conversations between a terror suspect and his MP, but were not breaking any rules when they did so, an official report said yesterday.
An inquiry into allegations that Scotland Yard bugged discussions in prison between Sadiq Khan and his constituent Babar Ahmad found that five officers knew one person they were recording was an MP. But senior officers never realised, despite authorising the operation.

Pentagon hits bullseye on spy satellite reports the Independent

The Pentagon has claimed a bullseye hit on an out-of-control US spy satellite over the Pacific Ocean – a mission officially aimed at preventing the satellite's dangerous fuel falling on a populous area but which critics say was a deliberate test of the US missile defence system that would only accelerate an arms race in space.
The spectacular collision took place early yesterday, London time, 153 miles above the Earth's surface, between the rogue satellite orbiting at 17,000mph and an SM-3 missile travelling at 5,000mph, just three minutes after the latter's launch from a US Navy cruiser.

John McCain rejects allegations of an affair with lobbyist in first run for President reports the Times

“I’m very disappointed in the article,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said at a news conference while his wife, Cindy, stood at his side. “It’s not true.”
The front-page article in The New York Times landed like a bombshell in the presidential campaign and has raised as many questions about the newspaper’s standards as the ethics of Mr McCain. It had planned to publish the article in December — before the Iowa and New Hampshire contests — but did not run it at the time after frantic lobbying by Mr McCain and his lawyers.

Britain's childhood obesity crisis revealed reports the Telegraph

The scale of the childhood obesity crisis was disclosed yesterday by figures showing that a quarter of five-year-olds and more than a third of 10-year-olds are too fat.The data could even underestimate the true picture, officials said, because the Government’s weighing programme in primary schools is voluntary, so the heaviest children could have opted out. More than 800,000 children were weighed and measured.

Finally the Sun reports that

STUDENTS at a top college have ditched a 35-YEAR ban on Page 3 — and voted to get The Sun again each day.
Loony Lefties dropped our newspaper from the junior common room at Oxford University’s Balliol College in the early 70s.