Detectives from the Metropolitan Police cold case Homicide Unit are reviewing possible links between the disappearance of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh and convicted serial killer Steven Wright.

The review, part of the ongoing examination of the original investigation known as Operation Phoebus, comes after new witnesses reported seeing Wright and Lamplugh together while working on the QE2 luxury liner.

Wright, who is serving a whole life tariff for the murder of six women, recently admitted to strangling Victoria Hall. Police are expected to question him as part of the ongoing review into Lamplugh’s disappearance.

A spokeswoman for the Met Police said: “The Metropolitan Police Service’s investigation into the disappearance and murder of Suzy Lamplugh is ongoing, and detectives remain committed to securing justice for her family.

“Over the years, hundreds of pieces of information have been carefully followed up by officers, and we continue to assess any new information brought to our attention.”

Wright is understood to have been working on the liner when it docked there on Monday July 28, 1986, the same day the 25-year-old estate agent vanished after going to meet a client called ‘Mr Kipper’ at a flat in Fulham, south west London.

She was never found and was declared dead in absentia in 1993, but the case has remained a mystery.

Hairs, fibres and body tissue samples found in Lamplugh’s abandoned car were believed to be the focus of a scientific probe in 2024. It is thought to be the longest running murder probe in the UK, having been actively investigated since the day she disappeared on 28 July 1986.

Police also found a smudged fingerprint on the rear-view mirror of the car that they believe could belong to the killer.

They were able to extract a small amount of DNA from it in 2000, but not enough to give a profile of its owner.

The last prime suspect in the disappearance of the missing estate agent died in prison in November 2024 aged 70.