Serial killer Steve Wright has lost a Court of Appeal bid to challenge his conviction for the murders of five prostitutes.
Three judges in London threw out his application for leave to appeal, ruling that his trial was fair and his conviction safe.
Wright, 50, formerly of Ipswich, Suffolk, who was not present for the ruling, was handed a whole-life sentence after being convicted in February last year.
Wright murdered the women between October and December 2006. Their bodies were found at remote locations around Ipswich over a 10-day period in December 2006.
Lord Justice Hughes, announcing the decision of the court, said Wright had raised no "arguable" grounds of appeal.
Wright, who had previously dispensed with his legal team, had sought to raise five grounds of appeal to show his conviction was "unsafe".
But all were rejected. Lord Justice Hughes said the court had come to the "very clear conclusion" that none was "capable of showing that the verdict of the jury was unsafe".
He said the proposed grounds put forward by Wright had been "moderately and carefully expressed and coherently formulated".
One of his arguments was that the trial should not have been held in the town where the murders had taken place. He asked the appeal judges to find that the jury was "placed under pressure which makes the verdict unsafe".
Lord Justice Hughes said it was certainly a case which had attracted a great deal of publicity, but wherever it was tried that was going to be a fact of life that had to be faced.
