A former wife of a man arrested on suspicion of the Suffolk prostitutes' murders has branded their marriage "a total disaster".
Diane Cole married Steve Wright after meeting him on a cruise ship in the mid-1980s.
He was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of killing five prostitutes whose bodies were dumped in the Ipswich area.
Speaking at her home in Hartlepool, close to the town's football ground, Ms Cole said: "He has not been charged with anything. I am not a judge.
"I don't want to talk about him until I have spoken to my new partner. He is not part of my life any more."
Ms Cole, who has lost both legs after suffering from meningitis and who uses a wheelchair, spoke through the letterbox of the front door of her one-storey terrace home.
Earlier she told the Hartlepool Mail newspaper she met Wright in her late twenties when she travelled the world on cruise ships working as a window dresser.
She told the newspaper the marriage was "a total disaster".
They ran a pub together in Norwich and Wright owned a bungalow in Essex.
After the marriage failed and she moved back to her native Hartlepool, she suffered her devastating illness.
