[86] However, by 2002 West Yorkshire Police publicly announced they were ready to bring charges against Sutcliffe for her murder (although no further action was taken as his whole-life tariff was confirmed). This was the date and place of the Olive Smelt attack. We, as a police force, will continue to arrest prostitutes. He had a number of underlying health problems, including obesity and diabetes. The BBC reports he refused treatment for COVID-19, and died in hospital in November 2020 as a result. The play focuses on the police force hunting Sutcliffe. Two months after that, on 26 June, he murdered 16-year-old Jayne MacDonald in Chapeltown. [140] On 31 July 2020, the series won the BAFTA prize for Specialist Factual TV programming. 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. Sutcliffe murdered 13 women and attempted to . [92] South Yorkshire Police also interviewed Sutcliffe on the murder of Ann Marie Harold in Mexborough in 1980, but links to him were later disproved in December 1982 when another man was convicted of her murder. [15] Other analyses of his actions have not found evidence that he actually sought the services of prostitutes but note that he nonetheless developed an obsession with them, including "watching them soliciting on the streets of Leeds and Bradford". On 17 June 1979, Humble sent a cassette to Assistant Chief Constable Oldfield, where he introduced himself only under the name "Jack" and claimed responsibility for the Ripper murders to that point. During his imprisonment, Sutcliffe was noted to show "particular anxiety" at mentions of Wilkinson due to the possible unsoundness of Steel's conviction. When she got out of the car to urinate, he hit her from behind with a hammer. [22] Claxton was four months pregnant when she was attacked, and lost the baby she was carrying. [90] One of these was Fred Craven, a bookkeeper murdered with a hammer on the same street Sutcliffe lived on in Bingley in 1966, and whose daughter Sutcliffe was known to have approached and been rejected by. On 4 August 2010, a spokeswoman for the Judicial Communications Office confirmed that Sutcliffe had initiated an appeal against the decision. The police then decided to do a . [85] In 2022, ITV broadcast a documentary based on Clark and Tate's book which discussed links between Wilkinson's murder and Sutcliffe. Her body was dumped at the rear of 13 Ashgrove under a pile of bricks, close to the university and her lodgings. 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. West Yorkshire Police made it clear that the victims wished to remain anonymous. She was suffering from hypothermia when found and was in hospital for nine weeks. The serial killer was serving a whole life term for murdering 13 women across Yorkshire and north-west England. A detailed history, The ending of Sex/Life season 2 explained, 'Hollywood Ripper' murdered Ashton Kutcher's date. For some time the 1970 murder of hitch-hiker Barbara Mayo was listed as a possible Sutcliffe attack by investigators, but this was conclusively disproved by DNA in 1997. The investigation took a while to get off the ground because, at first, police didn't link the murders. 13 November 2020 . [2]:144 He was sentenced to twenty concurrent sentences of life imprisonment, which were converted to a whole life order in 2010. [143] To be titled The Long Shadow, it was expected to air in September 2022.[144]. He was sitting in his car on an empty laneway on a quiet Friday night after new year's. Beside him in the passenger seat was a woman who, by the end of the weekend, would be grateful to be alive. [48][49], Sutcliffe pleaded guilty to seven charges of attempted murder. Sutcliffe said he had followed a prostitute into a garage and hit her over the head with a stone in a sock. [126], In December 2015, Sutcliffe was assessed as being "no longer mentally ill". [28], On 27 August, Sutcliffe attacked 14-year-old Tracy Browne in Silsden, attacking her from behind and hitting her on the head five times while she was walking along a country lane. [79][78] Sutcliffe did not confess to Wilkinson's murder at his Old Bailey trial, although by this time Steel was already serving time for the murder. Police identified a number of attacks which matched Sutcliffe's modus operandi and tried to question the killer, but he was never charged with other crimes. . He was arrested when they discovered the car had false plates, and brought. [135], The song "Night Shift" by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees on their 1981 album Juju is about Sutcliffe.[136]. In total, Sutcliffe had been questioned by the police on nine separate occasions in connection with the Ripper enquiry before his eventual arrest and conviction. Fans likely wouldn't have recognised Bruce in the horror show (Picture: S Meddle/ ITV/ REX/ Shutterstock) Speaking about what happened that day, Bruce shared his story in the documentary The Ripper. I went back to the car and got in it".[24]. [86], Hellawell also included six unsolved murder cases in Scotland on his list of potential Sutcliffe victims, and Sutcliffe was reportedly interviewed in prison about a number of murders in Scotland. He also attacked three other women, who survived: Uphadya Bandara in Leeds on 24 September 1980; Maureen Lea (known as Mo),[42] an art student attacked in the grounds of Leeds University on 25 October 1980; and 16-year-old Theresa Sykes, attacked in Huddersfield on the night of 5 November 1980. In the end Sutcliffe was caught after police discovered he had put false number plates on his car and found weapons in the boot. [110] On 23 February 1996, he was attacked in his room in Broadmoor's Henley Ward. Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 - 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan and dubbed in press reports as the Yorkshire Ripper (an allusion to Jack the Ripper) was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. The series also starred Richard Ridings and James Laurenson as DSI Dick Holland and Chief Constable Ronald Gregory, respectively. He was interviewed by police nine times, his car was spotted 60 times in red light districts where the Ripper prowled for victims. Walking home from a party, she accepted an offer of a lift from Sutcliffe. In November 2020, the man known as the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, died of COVID-19 at the age of 74. The group and other feminists had criticised the police for victim-blaming, especially for the suggestion that women should remain indoors at night. I see you're having no luck catching me. [141], A play written by Olivia Hirst and David Byrne, The Incident Room, premiered at Pleasance as part of the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. [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. [9][10], Through his childhood and his early adolescence, Sutcliffe showed no signs of abnormality. Most were mutilated and beaten to death. It wasn't until January 1981, three months after his final attack on 20-year-old Jacqueline Hill in Leeds, that police caught up with Sutcliffe. The third book (and second episodic television adaptation) in David Peace's Red Riding series is set against the backdrop of the Ripper investigation. Peter Sutcliffe was born to a working-class family in Bingley, West Riding of Yorkshire. The prosecution intended to accept Sutcliffe's plea after four psychiatrists diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia, but the trial judge, Justice Sir Leslie Boreham, demanded an unusually detailed explanation of the prosecution reasoning. He went on a killing spree and was even a suspect of the cops, but by the time they put 2 and 2. The murder of a woman who was not a prostitute again alarmed the public and prompted an expensive publicity campaign emphasising the Wearside connection. [88] At this time police also announced they were ready to bring charges against Sutcliffe for another attack on a woman who was listed as a possible victim of Sutcliffe by Hellawell, Mo Lea, who had been attacked with a hammer in Leeds in October 1980 by a man matching Sutcliffe's description. [38], The police discontinued the search for the person who received the 5 note in January 1978. Despite matching several forensic clues and being on the list of 300 names in connection with the 5 note, he was not strongly suspected. [75] In 2015, former detective Chris Clark and investigative journalist Time Tate published a book, Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders,[84] which supported the theory that Sutcliffe had murdered Wilkinson, pointing out that her body had been posed and partially stripped in a manner similar to the Ripper's modus operandi. Police spent five years pursuing the elusive killer - but Peter Sutcliffe was actually caught on a trivial pretext. Birdsall visited Bradford police station the day after sending the letter to repeat his misgivings about Sutcliffe. There, officers searched his car and discovered screwdrivers in the glove compartment. [101][92] However, several aspects of the attack did not fit Sutcliffe's MO, particularly as she hit been hit from the front and had been the victim of a robbery. The sexual implications of this outfit were considered obvious but it was not known to the public until published in 2003. Peter Sutcliffe is an infamous English serial killer, who was also known as the 'Yorkshire Ripper.' He was convicted for the murder of 13 prostitutes and attempt to kill seven more women. He was the subject of one of the most expensive manhunts in British history, making fools of the West Yorkshire Police. Like Rogulskyj, Smelt subsequently suffered severe emotional and mental trauma. Owing to the sensational nature of the case, the police handled an exceptional amount of information, some of it misleading (including hoax correspondence purporting to be from the "Ripper"). Sutcliffe's wife obtained a separation from him around 1989 and a divorce in July 1994. [93][92] Also believed to be included were the murders of 20-year-old Anna Kenny, 36-year-old Hilda McAuley and 23-year-old Agnes Cooney in separate incidents in Glasgow in 1977, as well as the World's End murders of Helen Scott and Christine Eadie in Edinburgh in 1978. [138], On 26 August 2016, the police investigation was the subject of BBC Radio 4's The Reunion. Humble was remanded in custody and on 21 March 2006 was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison. He was unemployed until October 1976, when he found a job as an HGV driver for T. & W.H. 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. . Sutcliffe committed his second assault on the night of 5 July 1975 in Keighley. Stephen handed prison time over Georgia sex tape, Finding Michael: What happened to Michael Matthews, Alex Murdaugh has been found guilty of murder, Constance Marten charged with manslaughter, Physical 100 contestant accused of assault, Tory MP says families are 'abusing' food banks, Harry and Meghan react to eviction from Frogmore, The legal age you can get married has just changed, Charles & Camilla break major royal tradition, How the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was finally caught. [44], When Sutcliffe was stripped at the police station he was wearing an inverted V-necked jumper under his trousers. Sutcliffe said he had heard voices that ordered him to kill prostitutes while working as a gravedigger, which he claimed originated from the headstone of a Polish man, Bronisaw Zapolski,[47] and that the voices were that of God. Between 1975 and 1980 Sutcliffe preyed on women across Greater Manchester and Yorkshire. Peter Sutcliffe, the convicted serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper, refused to be shielded in prison in the months before he died from the coronavirus, an inquest has heard. [78], One murder that was linked to Sutcliffe in the book, that of Alison Morris in Ramsey, Essex, on 1 September 1979, took place only six and a half hours before his known killing of Barbara Leach in Bradford, over 200mi (320km) away. [83], In 2003, Steel's conviction was quashed after it was found that his low IQ and mental capabilities made him a vulnerable interviewee, discrediting his supposed "confession" and confirming Yallop's long-standing suspicions that he had been wrongly convicted. A Netflix documentary, The Ripper, looks at Peter Sutcliffe's horrific crimes. On 10 January 1983, he followed Sutcliffe into the recess of F2, the hospital wing at Parkhurst, and plunged a broken coffee jar twice into the left side of Sutcliffe's face, creating four wounds requiring thirty stitches. Sutcliffe hid a second knife in the toilet cistern at the police station when he was permitted to use the toilet. He then disarranged her clothing and slashed her lower back with a knife. While awaiting trial, he killed two more women. While he was awaiting trial, he murdered two more women (Marguerite Walls and Jacqueline. "Everybody wanted him caught . [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. In April 1980, Sutcliffe was arrested for drunk driving. June 26, 1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a . [86][90] There were also two men on Hellawell's list of possible victims. The play was produced by New Diorama.[142]. Sutcliffe was interviewed nine times,[56] but all information the police had about the case was stored in paper form, making cross-referencing difficult, compounded by television appeals for information which generated thousands more documents. Sutcliffe flung himself backwards and the blade missed his right eye, stabbing him in the cheek. [115], On 17 February 2009, it was reported[116] that Sutcliffe was "fit to leave Broadmoor". The police have always had a poor understanding of what drives violence against women. The police obtained a search warrant for his home in Heaton and brought his wife in for questioning. The series was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Serial at the 2001 awards. [92][102] Links were also made between Sutcliffe and the murder of 38-year-old Mary Gregson in Shipley in August 1977, but Sutcliffe was able to be ruled out with DNA after a profile of the killer was extracted in 1999, and in 2000 another man was convicted of the killing. 1". Their father would also whip them with a belt. Information on suspects was stored on handwritten index cards. [92] Because detectives firmly believed (and continue to believe) that McAuley, Cooney and Kenny's murders were committed by the same person, this appeared to also rule out the possibility of Sutcliffe also having committed the murders of Cooney and Kenny. [91][92] These included the murders of prostitute Carol Lannen and trainee nursery nurse Elizabeth McCabe in Dundee in 1979 and 1980 respectively, which together became known as the "Templeton Woods murders" due to their bodies being found only 150 yards apart in Templeton Woods in the city. At the time of this attack, Claxton had been four months pregnant and subsequently miscarried her baby. On 20 October 2005, Humble was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice for sending the hoax letters and tape. He added that he was with Sutcliffe when he got out of a car to pursue a woman with whom he had had a bar room dispute in Halifax on 16 August 1975. [122] Sutcliffe spent the rest of his life in custody. [29] After two days of intensive questioning, on the afternoon of 4 January 1981, Sutcliffe suddenly declared he was the Ripper. Jan 2 1981: the Yorkshire Ripper is caught. Clark (Holdings) Ltd. on the Canal Road Industrial Estate in Bradford. Over three months the police interviewed 5,000 men, including Sutcliffe. [46] At his trial, he pleaded not guilty to thirteen charges of murder, but guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Leeds was the epicentre of Ripper activity, with six murders and five attacks in the city. [84] It alleged that, between 1966 and 1980, Peter Sutcliffe was responsible for at least 22 more murders than he was convicted of. [96][97], Other links made by police between unsolved attacks and Sutcliffe would also be subsequently disproven. Book Description "Ripper Notes: The Legend Continues" looks at the enduring mystery of the Jack the Ripper murders with essays covering the myths from the past that still survive today as well as the way modern enthusiasts keep the case alive. Paul Wilson, a convicted robber, asked to borrow a videotape before attempting to strangle Sutcliffe with the cable from a pair of stereo headphones. [69], Amongst other things, Byford's report asserted that there was a high likelihood of Sutcliffe having claimed more victims both during and before his known killing spree. The man who hoaxed detectives by claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper has died, police have confirmed. The tape contained a man's voice saying, "I'm Jack. [72][69] The report said that it was clear Sutcliffe had on at least one occasion attacked a Bradford prostitute with a cosh. [78] Yallop continued to put forth the theory that Sutcliffe was the real killer. They made the point that women should be able to walk anywhere without restriction and that they should not be blamed for men's violence. When he was caught in 1981, after years of police missteps, lost . [107] He began his sentence at HM Prison Parkhurst on 22 May 1981. [86] Another case was the April 1977 murder of 18-year-old Debbie Schlesinger, who was killed as she walked home one evening in Leeds after a night out. [19], Sutcliffe is also known to have attacked eleven other women:[20] a woman of unknown name (Bradford 1969), Anna Rogulskyj (Keighley 1975), Olive Smelt (Halifax 1975), Tracy Browne (Silsden 1975), Marcella Claxton (Leeds 1976), Maureen Long (Bradford 1977) Marilyn Moore (Leeds 1977), Ann Rooney (Leeds 1979)[21] Upadhya Bandara (Leeds 1980), Mo Lea (Leeds 1980) and Theresa Sykes (Huddersfield 1980). How and where was the Yorkshire Ripper caught? [14] On 5 March 1976, Sutcliffe was dismissed for the theft of used tyres. [90] The other male listed as a possible Sutcliffe victim was John Tomey, who was attacked by a hammer by a man who matched his description in his taxi in 1967. For five years, investigators had pursued every lead in an effort to stop. A new Netflix series, The Ripper, uses archive footage from the 1970s to show detectives in West Yorkshire . History of notorious killer who brutally murdered 13women", "How police caught Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe in Sheffield 37years ago this week", "Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe victims", "Looking back: The Yorkshire Ripper investigation", "Restoring reputations of Yorkshire Ripper's victims after decades of victim-blaming", "Yorkshire Ripper serial killer Peter Sutcliffe dies", "Women who survived Sutcliffe's attacks also had to survive institutional sexism", "The Yorkshire Ripper was not a 'prostitute killer' now his forgotten victims need justice", "Daughter of Ripper victim kills herself", "Yorkshire Ripper: Who were serial killer Peter Sutcliffe's victims? Police were able to trace the note back to the bank, which consequently narrowed their search down to around 8,000 people. [2]:107, Ten days later, he killed Helen Rytka, an 18-year-old prostitute from Huddersfield. Birth Country: England. [31] In dire financial straits, Jackson had been persuaded by her husband to engage in prostitution, using the van of their family roofing business. [2]:36. But the Ripper is now killing innocent girls. Best Known For: Peter Sutcliffe was a British serial killer known as . [79] Like Wilkinson, Pearson was bludgeoned with a heavy stone and was not stabbed, and was initially ruled out as a "Ripper" victim. It resulted in Sutcliffe being at liberty for more than a month when he might conceivably have been in custody. [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. One of his brothers admitted that their father was an abusive alcoholic, stating that he once smashed a beer glass over Sutcliffe's head for sitting in his chair at the Christmas table, after arguing, when the brother was four or five years old. On 6 April 1991, Sutcliffe's father, John Sutcliffe, talked about his son on the television discussion programme After Dark. The basis of his defence was that he claimed to be the tool of God's will. The police found that the alibi given for Sutcliffe's whereabouts was credible; he had indeed spent much of the evening of the killing at a family party. A later inspection back at the site of Sutcliffe's arrest revealed he had discarded a hammer and a knife when he supposedly went to relieve himself behind the building. 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. 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]. [137], The 13 May 2013 episode of Crimes That Shook Britain focused on the case. [113], Sutcliffe's father died in 2004 and was cremated. [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!" The decision to allow the temporary release was initiated by David Blunkett and ratified by Charles Clarke when he became Home Secretary. [76][75] Police eventually admitted in 1979 that the Yorkshire Ripper did not only attack prostitutes, but by this time a local man, Anthony Steel, had already been convicted of Wilkinson's murder. Anna's life. [89], One of the cases investigated was an attack on student teacher Gloria Wood in November 1974, in which Wood was attacked as she walked home one evening in Bradford by a man who had asked if she needed help carrying her bags. [101][92] For many years Sutcliffe was linked in the press to the murder of 42-year-old Marion Spence in Leeds on 10 June 1979, but a man had in fact been convicted of her murder in January 1980. He recommended a minimum term of thirty years to be served before parole could be considered, meaning Sutcliffe would have been unlikely to be freed until at least 2011. 38 Ripper's first victim, attacked with a hammer and knife after a night out. Sutcliffe picked up Jackson, who was soliciting outside the Gaiety pub on Roundhay Road, then drove about half a mile to some derelict buildings on Enfield Terrace in the Manor Industrial Estate. [26] She later said, "I've been afraid to go out much because I feel people are staring and pointing at me. The so-called Yorkshire Ripper is finally caught by British police, ending one of the largest manhunts in history. [100] After his conviction in 1981, South Yorkshire Police interviewed Sutcliffe on the murder of 29-year-old Doncaster prostitute Barbara Young, who had been hit over the head by a "tall, dark haired man" in an alleyway on the evening of 22 March 1977. [78] Even though his confession failed to include any details of the murder, and Ripper detective Jim Hobson testified at trial that he did not find the confession credible, Steel was narrowly convicted.
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