[18] The following is a summary of Sutcliffe's confirmed crimes: Sutcliffe's thirteen known murder victims were Wilma McCann (Leeds 1975), Emily Jackson (Leeds 1976), Irene Richardson (Leeds 1977), Patricia "Tina" Atkinson (Bradford 1977), Jayne MacDonald (Leeds 1977), Jean Jordan (Manchester 1977), Yvonne Pearson (Bradford 1978), Helen Rytka (Huddersfield 1978), Vera Millward (Manchester 1978), Josephine Whitaker (Halifax 1979), Barbara Leach (Bradford 1979), Marguerite Walls (Leeds 1980) and Jacqueline Hill (Leeds 1980). Aside from difficulties in storing and accessing the paperwork (the floor of the incident room was reinforced with concrete pillars to cope with the weight of the paper), it was difficult for officers to overcome the information overload of such a large manual system. [86][88][87] Twelve of these occurred within West Yorkshire, while the others took place in other parts of the country. The attitude in the West Yorkshire Police at the time reflected Sutcliffe's own misogyny and sexist attitudes, according to multiple sources. The man who hoaxed detectives by claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper has died, police have confirmed. 7.1/10. Video, 00:01:18 The hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. Listening About Jack The Ripper Thank you very much for reading Listening About Jack The Ripper . But after a pattern began to emerge with all the killings - victims were all struck over the head with a hammer before being stabbed with a knife or screwdriver - it was clear they were after one man. The BBC reports he refused treatment for COVID-19, and died in hospital in November 2020 as a result. Two of Sutcliffe's murders took place in Manchester; all the others were in West Yorkshire. In August 2016, it was ruled that he was mentally fit to be returned to prison, and he was transferred that month to HM Prison Frankland in County Durham. 38 Ripper's first victim, attacked with a hammer and knife after a night out. He reportedly refused treatment. The hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. [104] The Home Office responded by stating that it would send any new evidence to the police. The courts in Yorkshire have been very busy with killers, sex predators and fraudsters all jailed in February . [5] The report led to changes to investigative procedures that were adopted across UK police forces. [108] In March 1984, Sutcliffe was sent to Broadmoor Hospital, under Section 47 of the Mental Health Act 1983.[109]. [5] This drew condemnation from the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), who protested outside the Old Bailey. [92] Clark and Tate claimed that Sutcliffe could have been in Essex and still had enough time to drive back to Bradford to kill Leach six and a half hours later. Between November 1971 and April 1973, Sutcliffe worked at the Baird Television factory on a packaging line. 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Cosmopolitan, Part of the Hearst UK Fashion & Beauty Network. "The women I killed were filth", he told police. But when he was finally caught in 1981 it was for driving with false number plates. Sutcliffe flung himself backwards and the blade missed his right eye, stabbing him in the cheek. While awaiting trial, he killed two more women. [29] After two days of intensive questioning, on the afternoon of 4 January 1981, Sutcliffe suddenly declared he was the Ripper. The Telegraph reports the murderer claimed he had been "directed by God to kill prostitutes" as reasoning for the grim attacks. [126], In December 2015, Sutcliffe was assessed as being "no longer mentally ill". Peter Sutcliffe was sitting inside the vehicle with a sex worker, and instantly came to the officers' attention because he fit the description of the Yorkshire Ripper. On 23 March 2010, the Secretary of State for Justice, Jack Straw, was questioned by Julie Kirkbride, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromsgrove, in the House of Commons seeking reassurance for a constituent, a victim of Sutcliffe, that he would remain in prison. A new Netflix series, The Ripper, uses archive footage from the 1970s to show detectives in West Yorkshire . [59]:83, In 1988, the mother of Sutcliffe's last victim, Jacqueline Hill, during an action for damages on behalf of her daughter's estate, argued in the case Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire in the High Court that the police had failed to use reasonable care in apprehending Sutcliffe. [102][92], Following his conviction and incarceration, Sutcliffe chose to use the name Coonan, his mother's maiden name. [66][34][67] Jim Hobson, a senior West Yorkshire detective, told a press conference in October 1979 the perpetrator: "has made it clear that he hates prostitutes. On Jan. 2, 1981, two police officers approached Sutcliffe, who was in a parked car in an area where prostitutes and their customers were commonly spotted. [23], Sutcliffe's first documented assault was of a female prostitute, whom he had met while searching for another woman who had tricked him out of money. The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has died at the age of 74. Peter Sutcliffe was a Bradford lorry driver who became known as the Yorkshire Ripper and . [78], Around the time of Wilkinson's murder it was widely reported that Professor David Gee, the Home Office pathologist who conducted all the post-mortem examinations on the Ripper victims, noted similarities between the Wilkinson murder and the killing of Ripper victim Yvonne Pearson three months later. Name: Peter Sutcliffe. [123] The hearing for Sutcliffe's appeal against the ruling began on 30 November 2010 at the Court of Appeal. "Everybody wanted him caught . The play was produced by New Diorama.[142]. Despite matching several forensic clues and being on the list of 300 names in connection with the 5 note, he was not strongly suspected. He was caught in January 1981 when police found him in his car . [145], In November 2021, American heavy metal band Slipknot released a song titled "The Chapeltown Rag", which is inspired by the media reporting on the murders. [86] At the time detectives did not believe Schlessinger's murder was a Ripper killing as she was not a prostitute. [80] Sutcliffe was familiar with the estate where she was murdered and was known to have regularly frequented the area; in February 1977, only months before the murder, he was reported to police for acting suspiciously on the street Wilkinson lived. West Yorkshire Police made it clear that the victims wished to remain anonymous. But the Ripper is now killing innocent girls. The next day police returned to the scene of the arrest and discovered a knife, hammer, and rope he had discarded when he briefly slipped away from the police after telling them he was "bursting for a pee". [84] As part of the research for the book, Clark and Tate claimed to have found evidence that pointed to the wrong man having been convicted for the Sewell murder, having unearthed a pathology report which allegedly indicated that the originally convicted Stephen Downing could not have committed the crime. In April 1980, Sutcliffe was arrested for drunk driving. He soon admitted he was the Yorkshire Ripper and spent 15 hours. Birth Country: England. Again he was interrupted and left his victim badly injured but alive. [26] She later said, "I've been afraid to go out much because I feel people are staring and pointing at me. [44], When Sutcliffe was stripped at the police station he was wearing an inverted V-necked jumper under his trousers. On 16 July 2010, the High Court issued Sutcliffe with a whole life tariff, meaning he was never to be released. On 17 January 2005, Sutcliffe was allowed to visit Arnside where the ashes had been scattered. It was all there in that clogged up system. Cosmopolitan participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. He ran off when he saw the lights of a passing car, leaving his victim requiring brain surgery. A Netflix documentary, The Ripper, looks at Peter Sutcliffe's horrific crimes. He left this position when he was asked to go on the road as a salesman. He is one of Britain's most notorious criminals - and 37 years ago this week, the killing spree of Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was finally brought to an end in Sheffield. Straw responded that whilst the matter of Sutcliffe's release was a parole board matter, "that all the evidence that I have seen on this case, and it's a great deal, suggests to me that there are no circumstances in which this man will be released".[117]. Given that Sutcliffe was a lorry driver, it was theorised that he had been in Denmark and Sweden, making use of the ferry across the Oresund Strait. The identification and subsequent capture of the man labelled 'The Yorkshire Ripper' by the media was actually quite fortuitous. In August 1979 a prostitute, 32-year-old Wendy Jenkins, was killed in Bristol, and Avon and Somerset Police liaised with West Yorkshire Police about whether there was any potential links to the "Ripper" killing spree. [10], On 2 January 1981, Sutcliffe was stopped by the police with 24-year-old prostitute Olivia Reivers in the driveway of Light Trades House in Melbourne Avenue, Broomhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Tyre tracks left near the murder scene resulted in a long list of possible suspect vehicles. Despite being found sane at his trial, Sutcliffe was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Although Sutcliffe was interviewed about it, he was not investigated further (he was contacted and disregarded by the Ripper Squad on several further occasions). The chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Federation responded to this news with a. [86] Detectives were able to eliminate Sutcliffe from forty of these cases with reference to his lorry driver's logs, leaving twenty-two unsolved crimes with hallmarks of a Ripper attack which were investigated further. It was his sixteenth attack. The mysterious 3,700-year-old . [77] Steel had confessed to the murder under intense questioning, having been told that he would be allowed to see a solicitor if he did so. Unlike Jack the Ripper, however, the Yorkshire Ripper was eventually caught by police, unmasked so the whole world would know his name. After an attack with a pen by fellow inmate Ian Kay on 10 March 1997, Sutcliffe lost the vision in his left eye, and his right eye was severely damaged. It was on . Once she was dead, Sutcliffe mutilated her corpse with a knife. Her body was dumped at the rear of 13 Ashgrove under a pile of bricks, close to the university and her lodgings. McCann, from Scott Hall in Leeds, was a mother of four children between the ages of 2 and 7. Harrison's murder had been linked to the Ripper killings by the "Wearside Jack" claim, but in 2011, DNA evidence revealed the crime had actually been committed by convicted sex offender Christopher Smith, who had died in 2008. [b] The investigation used it as a point of elimination rather than a line of enquiry and allowed Sutcliffe to avoid scrutiny, as he did not fit the profile of the sender of the tape or letters. [104], A number of murders Clark and Tate claimed could be linked to Sutcliffe already have DNA evidence, such as the murders of Barbara Mayo, Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon, and investigators are known to already have a copy of Sutcliffe's DNA and have been able to rule him out of unsolved cases as a result. MacDonald was not a prostitute and, in the public perception, her murder showed that all women were potential victims. Apart from a terrorist outrage, it is difficult to conceive of circumstances in which one man could account for so many victims. Hill's body was found on wasteland near the Arndale Centre. [13] Because of this occupation, he developed a macabre sense of humour. [63], In response to the police reaction to the murders, the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group organised a number of 'Reclaim the Night' marches. Between 1975 and 1980 Sutcliffe preyed on women across Greater Manchester and Yorkshire. 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[2]:144 He was sentenced to twenty concurrent sentences of life imprisonment, which were converted to a whole life order in 2010. . [124] The appeal was rejected on 14 January 2011. That month, Sutcliffe killed again. Give yourself up before another innocent woman dies". The last six attacks were on totally respectable women". [2]:92 In a confession, Sutcliffe said he had realised the new 5 note he had given her was traceable. Walking home from a party, she accepted an offer of a lift from Sutcliffe. Born and raised in Yorkshire, England, he had mental troubles since childhood. Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, has died in hospital after contracting Covid-19. When she got out of the car to urinate, he hit her from behind with a hammer. The hoaxer case was re-opened in 2005, and DNA taken from envelopes was entered into the national database, in which it matched that of John Samuel Humble, an unemployed alcoholic and long-time resident of the Ford Estate in Sunderland a few miles from Castletown whose DNA had been taken following a drunk and disorderly offence in 2001. On 25 November 1980, Birdsall sent an anonymous letter to police, the text of which ran as follows: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, I have good reason to now [sic] the man you are looking for in the Ripper case. Sutcliffe's first and last murders also occurred in Leeds. Sue MacGregor discussed the investigation with John Domaille, who later became assistant chief constable of West Yorkshire Police; Andy Laptew, who was a junior detective who interviewed Sutcliffe; Elaine Benson, who worked in the incident room and interviewed suspects; David Zackrisson, who investigated the "Wearside Jack" tape and letters in Sunderland; and Christa Ackroyd, a local journalist in Halifax. At Dewsbury, he was questioned in relation to the Yorkshire Ripper case as he matched many of the known physical characteristics. [2]:112 Sutcliffe said of Rytka while in police custody in 1981: "I had the urge to kill any woman. [13] Her photofit bore a strong resemblance to Sutcliffe, like other survivors, and she provided a good description of his car, which had been seen in red-light districts. The series also starred Richard Ridings and James Laurenson as DSI Dick Holland and Chief Constable Ronald Gregory, respectively. [16] When Sonia completed the course in 1977 and began teaching, she and Sutcliffe used her salary to buy a house at 6 Garden Lane in Heaton, into which they moved on 26 September 1977, and where they were living at the time of Sutcliffe's arrest.[17]. [114], On 22 December 2007, Sutcliffe was attacked by fellow inmate Patrick Sureda, who lunged at him with a metal cutlery knife while shouting, "You fucking raping, murdering bastard, I'll blind your fucking other one!" [86][90] There were also two men on Hellawell's list of possible victims. Eleven marches in various towns across the United Kingdom took place on the night of 12 November 1977. In October 2020, it was announced that ITV was to produce a new six-part drama series about the Ripper. Paul Wilson, a convicted robber, asked to borrow a videotape before attempting to strangle Sutcliffe with the cable from a pair of stereo headphones. This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, a British television crime drama miniseries, first shown on ITV from 26 January to 2 February 2000, is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the murders, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield (Alun Armstrong). It was pure luck. Sutcliffe initially attacked women and girls in residential areas, but appears to have shifted his focus to red-light districts because he was attracted by the vulnerability of prostitutes and the perceived ambivalent attitude, at the time, of police to prostitutes' safety. You have made your point. He was caught in a car in Melbourne Avenue, an area known for being the Sheffield's red light district, with a 24-year-old prostitute called Olivia Reivers. [100] Ripper detective Jim Hobson duly visited the site of the murder in Bristol, but there were a number of differences in the murder to Sutcliffe's known killings. [9][10], Through his childhood and his early adolescence, Sutcliffe showed no signs of abnormality. [23][133][19][134] A private funeral ceremony was held, and Sutcliffe's body was cremated.
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