Clark (Holdings) Ltd. on the Canal Road Industrial Estate in Bradford. Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was finally caught in January 1981 with simple old-fashioned police work. [31] In dire financial straits, Jackson had been persuaded by her husband to engage in prostitution, using the van of their family roofing business. But when he was finally caught in 1981 it was for driving with false number plates. And how did he die? [146], In February 2022, Channel 5 released a 60-minute documentary entitled The Ripper Speaks: The Lost Tapes, which recounts interviews and Sutcliffe speaking about life in prison and in Broadmoor Hospital, as well the crimes he had committed but which had not been seen or treated as "a Ripper killing".[147]. [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. 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. Weeks of intense investigations pertaining to the origins of the 5 note led to nothing, leaving police officers frustrated that they collected an important clue but had been unable to trace the actual firm (or employee within the firm) to which or whom the note had been issued. [81] Furthermore, earlier on the day as Wilkinson's murder, Sutcliffe had gone back to mutilate Jordan's body before returning to Bradford, showing he had already gone out to attack victims that day and would have been in Bradford to attack Wilkinson after he come back from mutilating Jordan. A new Netflix series, The Ripper, uses archive footage from the 1970s to show detectives in West Yorkshire . Between 1975 and 1980 Sutcliffe preyed on women across Greater Manchester and Yorkshire. In December 2007, McCann's eldest daughter Sonia Newlands died by suicide, reportedly after years of anguish and depression over the circumstances of her mother's death, and consequences to her and her siblings. During his imprisonment, Sutcliffe was noted to show "particular anxiety" at mentions of Wilkinson due to the possible unsoundness of Steel's conviction. [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). 13 November 2020 . The so-called Yorkshire Ripper is finally caught by British police, ending one of the largest manhunts in history. 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. [33] The police described her as the first "innocent" victim. Apart from a terrorist outrage, it is difficult to conceive of circumstances in which one man could account for so many victims. [79] Like Wilkinson, Pearson was bludgeoned with a heavy stone and was not stabbed, and was initially ruled out as a "Ripper" victim. The murderer continued, going untraced over the next five years despite murdering 12 more women and attempting to kill seven others. The last six attacks were on totally respectable women". . The fronts of the elbows were padded to protect his knees as, presumably, he knelt over his victims' corpses. [54], West Yorkshire Police was criticised for being inadequately prepared for an investigation on this scale. [63], In response to the police reaction to the murders, the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group organised a number of 'Reclaim the Night' marches. This man as [sic] dealings with prostitutes and always had a thing about them His name and address is Peter Sutcliffe, 5 [sic] Garden Lane, Heaton, Bradford Clarkes [sic] Trans. [115], On 17 February 2009, it was reported[116] that Sutcliffe was "fit to leave Broadmoor". [30], Sutcliffe committed his next murder in Leeds on 20 January 1976, when he stabbed 42-year-old Emily Jackson fifty-two times. Sutcliffe died from diabetes-related complications in hospital, while in prison custody on 13 November 2020, at the age of 74. [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. An application by Sutcliffe for a minimum term to be set, offering the possibility of parole after that date if it were thought safe to release him, was heard by the High Court on 16 July 2010. [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. 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. In 1977, the cops finally caught their first break when they found a five-pound banknote in the purse of one of his victims Jean Jordan, a prostitute he mutilated and murdered. The killer was sentenced to 20 concurrent life sentences, and he remained imprisoned until his death this week. Sutcliffe said he had followed a prostitute into a garage and hit her over the head with a stone in a sock. 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"). Cat is Cosmopolitan UK's features editor covering women's issues, health and current affairs. Like Rogulskyj, Smelt subsequently suffered severe emotional and mental trauma. [106] One supposedly "unsolved" murder linked to Sutcliffe in The Secret Murders, that of Marion Spence in Leeds, in 1979, had in fact already been solved in January 1980 when a man was convicted of her murder. Peter Sutcliffe, later dubbed the Yorkshire. The chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Federation responded to this news with a. The police have always had a poor understanding of what drives violence against women. Sutcliffe was transferred from prison to Broadmoor Hospital in March 1984 after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The 1982 Byford Report into the investigation concluded: "The ineffectiveness of the major incident room was a serious handicap to the Ripper investigation. [86] Most notably, Sutcliffe's work record also showed that he was delivering to an engineering plant 100 yards from Schlessinger's home on the day she was killed. [92] Upon Sutcliffe's death in 2020, Clark submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office, asking if Sutcliffe's DNA was on the national DNA database. You have made your point. [44], When Sutcliffe was stripped at the police station he was wearing an inverted V-necked jumper under his trousers. The Yorkshire Ripper case is one of those stories that you eventually just absorb if you're a true crime follower like me. All except two of Sutcliffe's murders took place in West Yorkshire; the others were in Manchester.. But the killer's true name Peter Sutcliffe is now notorious in England. [65], The Inspector of Constabulary Lawrence Byford's 1981 report of an official inquiry into the Ripper case[69] was not released by the Home Office until 1 June 2006. Sutcliffe murdered 13 women and attempted to . That indicates your mental state and that you are in urgent need of medical attention. The tape contained a man's voice saying, "I'm Jack. Sutcliffe had been interviewed on this issue. [143] To be titled The Long Shadow, it was expected to air in September 2022.[144]. [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. His parents were John William Sutcliffe and his wife Kathleen Frances (ne Coonan), a native of Connemara. It resulted in Sutcliffe being at liberty for more than a month when he might conceivably have been in custody. The sexual implications of this outfit were considered obvious but it was not known to the public until published in 2003. 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. [9], Sutcliffe was known to be acquaintances with Wilkinson, and was known to have argued violently with Wilkinson's stepfather over his advances towards her. The BBC reports he refused treatment for COVID-19, and died in hospital in November 2020 as a result. The mysterious 3,700-year-old . He reportedly refused treatment. [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. I'm Jack. [74][75] Wilkinson's murder had initially been considered as a possible "Ripper" killing, but this was quickly ruled out as Wilkinson was not a prostitute. [2]:144 He was sentenced to twenty concurrent sentences of life imprisonment, which were converted to a whole life order in 2010. The letters, signed "Jack the Ripper", claimed responsibility for the murder of 26-year-old Joan Harrison in Preston in November 1975. At his trial he pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of diminished responsibility, but he was convicted of murder on a majority verdict. [107] He began his sentence at HM Prison Parkhurst on 22 May 1981. 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. [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. Despite the false lead, Sutcliffe was interviewed on at least two other occasions in 1979. The Yorkshire Ripper Is Finally Caught. Unlike Jack the Ripper, however, the Yorkshire Ripper was eventually caught by police, unmasked so the whole world would know his name. The sections "Description of suspects, photofits and other assaults" and parts of the section on Sutcliffe's "immediate associates" were not disclosed by the Home Office. Birdsall visited Bradford police station the day after sending the letter to repeat his misgivings about Sutcliffe. He was caught in January 1981 when police found him in his car . Namibia and Iceland caught in jaws of fish scandal. [119][120] Mr Justice Mitting stated: This was a campaign of murder which terrorised the population of a large part of Yorkshire for several years. The only explanation for it, on the jury's verdict, was anger, hatred and obsession. He often used the services of sex workers in Leeds and Bradford and targeted them. [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. Jan 2 1981: the Yorkshire Ripper is caught. 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. Best Known For: Peter Sutcliffe was a British serial killer known as . Cosmopolitan UK's current issue is out now and you can SUBSCRIBE HERE. Anna's life. Her body was found three days later beneath railway arches in Garrards timber-yard to which he had driven her. [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. [72] Later that year, in September 1969,[73] he was arrested in Bradford's red light district for being in possession of a hammer, an offensive weapon, but he was charged with "going equipped for stealing" as it was assumed he was a potential burglar. During a strip search, officers noticed that Sutcliffe was wearing elbow padding, as well as an upside-down V-neck jumper under his trousers, exposing his genitals. Peter Sutcliffe, 74, was known as the 'Yorkshire Ripper' and had been serving a whole-life term for a monstrous spree that terrorised Yorkshire and the north of England throughout the 1970s. [8] Kathleen was a Roman Catholic and John was a member of the choir at the local Anglican church of St Wilfred's; their children were raised in their mother's Catholic faith, and Sutcliffe briefly served as an altar boy. In February 1975, he took redundancy and used half of the 400 pay-off to train as a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driver. That month, Sutcliffe killed again. Sutcliffe flung himself backwards and the blade missed his right eye, stabbing him in the cheek. He left this position when he was asked to go on the road as a salesman. The Yorkshire Ripper's ashes were scattered at a seaside beauty spot, his niece has said as she revealed the terrible impact he had on her life. 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. Yorkshire Ripper's niece says evil uncle's ashes are scattered at . [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. It was pure luck. When two policemen in Sheffield walked past a brown Rover in January 1981, and noticed the car's registration plate did not match the number on the tax disc, they stopped the man at the wheel. Sign up to our newsletter to get more articles like this delivered straight to your inbox. [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. [13] Because of this occupation, he developed a macabre sense of humour. The investigation took a while to get off the ground because, at first, police didn't link the murders. [91] Sinclair also happens to be the prime suspect in the murders of Kenny, McAuley and Cooney, but detectives felt they did not have enough evidence to charge him before his death in prison in 2019. Police visited Sutcliffe's home the next day, as the woman he had attacked had noted Birdsall's vehicle registration plate. [70], The Byford Report's major findings were contained in a summary published by the Home Secretary, William Whitelaw, the first time precise details of the bungled police investigation had been disclosed. The House of Lords held that the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire did not owe a duty of care to the victim due to the lack of proximity, and therefore failing on the second limb of the Caparo test. "Everybody wanted him caught . Despite being found sane at his trial, Sutcliffe was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. [12], Reportedly a loner, Sutcliffe left school at age 15 and had a series of menial jobs, including two stints as a gravedigger in the 1960s. [2]:63, After leaving Baird Television, Sutcliffe worked nightshifts at the Britannia Works of Anderton International from April 1973. [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. [13] She required multiple, extensive brain operations and had intermittent blackouts and chronic depression. Wilma McCann's son Richard, who was just five-years-old at the time of his mother's murder, said the serial killer's death would bring "some kind of closure" for himself and the other family members of his victims. Sutcliffe was accompanied by four members of the hospital staff. Two months later, on 23 April, Sutcliffe killed Patricia "Tina" Atkinson, a prostitute from Bradford, in her flat, where police found a bootprint on the bedclothes. [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. [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. On 6 April 1991, Sutcliffe's father, John Sutcliffe, talked about his son on the television discussion programme After Dark. 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. 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. After allowing Sutcliffe to go to the toilet behind a nearby building, the police sent him to Dewsbury to be interviewed. [90] Witnesses saw a man running from the scene wearing a Donovan hat, and Sutcliffe was known to have owned one, but police never interviewed him at the time. The police obtained a search warrant for his home in Heaton and brought his wife in for questioning. A police check by probationary constable Robert Hydes revealed Sutcliffe's car had false number plates and he was arrested and transferred to Dewsbury Police Station in West Yorkshire. [111] Kay admitted trying to kill Sutcliffe and was ordered to be detained in a secure mental hospital without limit of time. While at Parkhurst he was seriously assaulted by James Costello, a 35-year-old career criminal with several convictions for violence. [9][pageneeded], The first victim to be killed by Sutcliffe was Wilma McCann on 30 October. [92] Barbara Mayo was already ruled out as a Peter Sutcliffe victim by police in 1997, and the DNA sample in her murder case has not been linked by police to that of Weedon or Stratford, showing the murders were committed by different people. [40] The hoaxer appeared to know details of the murders which had not been released to the press, but which in fact he had acquired from pub gossip and his local newspaper. [86][90] There were also two men on Hellawell's list of possible victims. [137], The 13 May 2013 episode of Crimes That Shook Britain focused on the case. Following Sutcliffe's conviction, the government ordered a review of the investigation, conducted by the Inspector of Constabulary Lawrence Byford, known as the "Byford Report". Despite matching several forensic clues and being on the list of 300 names in connection with the 5 note, he was not strongly suspected. Leeds was the epicentre of Ripper activity, with six murders and five attacks in the city. [113], Sutcliffe's father died in 2004 and was cremated. Again he was interrupted and left his victim badly injured but alive. [2]:112 Sutcliffe said of Rytka while in police custody in 1981: "I had the urge to kill any woman. 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". Was the Yorkshire Ripper Caught? [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. Two of Sutcliffe's murders took place in Manchester; all the others were in West Yorkshire. On 9 October, Jordan's body was discovered by local dairy worker and future actor Bruce Jones,[36] who had an allotment on land adjoining the site where the body was found and was searching for house bricks when he made the discovery. Richardson was bludgeoned to death with a hammer. 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. A 1980 BBC segment on the Yorkshire Ripper case, including interviews with relatives of the victims of Peter Sutcliffe. On 1 October 1977 Sutcliffe murdered Jean Jordan, a prostitute from Manchester. [135], The song "Night Shift" by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees on their 1981 album Juju is about Sutcliffe.[136]. Peter Sutcliffe was born to a working-class family in Bingley, West Riding of Yorkshire. [90], Hellewell had also listed the attacks on Tracey Browne in 1975 and Ann Rooney in 1979 as possible Sutcliffe attacks, and it was to him he confessed to these crimes to in 1992, confirming police suspicions that Sutcliffe was responsible for more attacks than those he confessed to at trial. The police then decided to do a . Sutcliffe murdered 47-year-old Marguerite Walls on the night of 20 August 1980, and 20-year-old Jacqueline Hill, a student at Leeds University, on the night of 17 November 1980.
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