A court jury was told today that two gloves belonging to a former pub landlord were found with DNA that could belong to two of the five murdered prostitutes.

Steve Wright, 49, from Ipswich, Suffolk, murdered the five prostitutes in a 10-day period between October and December 2006 .

The five prostitute victims are: Gemma Adams, 25, Tania Nicol, 19, Anneli Alderton, 24, Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29.

Wright denied the accusations brought against him.

His lawyer, Timothy Langdale QC, said that his client admits of having sex with four of the victims. He said that he had no intercourse with Tania Nicol, portsmouth.co.uk informs.

Jurors at Ipswich Crown Court found that Wright was in “close contact” with the women after their deaths.

According to Peter Wright QC, prosecutor, the gloves, which had stains of semen, were found in Wright’s car and had also DNA samples possibly belonging to Annette Nicholls and Anneli Alderton, timesonline.co.uk reports.

Wright QC told the jurors that there’s a chance in a billion for the DNA found on the bodies of Miss Clennell, Miss Alderton and Miss Nicol' not to match with the defendant’s. He said that the DNA would have been washed if the women had been alive.

Wright QC said that the evidences linked the defendant to the bodies of the three women.

He said: "The defendant must have had some form of close contact with each of these three women and that contact must have occurred shortly before their deaths.”

He added: “It is the prosecution case that this contact cannot have occurred through entirely random, coincidental and casual use of prostitutes - each of whom then met their deaths shortly after. These findings point not to an unfortunate coincidence but rather to the defendant as being engaged in an active campaign of murder during the period from October to December 2006. A campaign that only came to an end with his arrest. A campaign in which he had deliberately targeted working prostitutes in the Ipswich area as his victims and succeeded in murdering no fewer than five in a very short space of time."

Residents in the area compare Wright to Jack the Ripper, a serial killer from the late 19th century who used to kill prostitutes from Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London.