THE father of a serial killer has urged his son to finally confess a decade after his first victim disappeared.

Steve Wright murdered five sex workers, including Anneli Alderton from Colchester, during a six week spree in Ipswich in 2006.

Wright’s father Conrad, now 80, has lost contact with his son, who is serving a whole life term with no chance of release.

He told the BBC he would be willing to see him again if only to urge him to confess.

He said: “It’s the only thing he can do, I mean he’s a man.

“But he doesn’t do it does he?

“It’s the only thing he could do to excuse himself is to stand up and admit it.

“I wouldn’t forgive him, you can’t forgive him - their lives were taken away, you don’t forgive anybody for that anyway.”

Forklift truck driver Steve Wright picked up 19-year-old Tania Nicol on October 30, 2006.

At the time all that was known was she had disappeared.

Two weeks later Gemma Adams, 25, also vanished.

The body of Miss Adams was found in Hintlesham on December 2 followed by the discovery of Miss Nicol in Copdock on December 8.

Two days later the body of Miss Alderton, whose family lived in Harwich, was found in woods in Nacton and on December 12 the bodies of Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29, were found in woods at Levington.

Wright was arrested one week later.

He has admitted having sex with the women but continues to deny murdering them.

He was convicted and ordered to serve a sentence of life meaning life in February 2008.

Conrad Wright added: “The Steve I know, he’d go to cricket at the weekend, and he’d come with me and look after the other two dogs we had then, he’d go down the road to the pub, he wouldn’t say ‘boo’ to a goose.

“I would ask him to tell me all about it. ‘Why, why are you here, Steve?’

“And knowing him, he’d probably say, ‘well, I don’t know,’ and that would be his answer.

“And I’d say well you’ve murdered people and he’d sit back and say: ‘Have I? I can’t remember’.”