Peter Sutcliffe is an English serial killer, better known globallyas 'The Yorkshire Ripper'. who was convicted in 1981 for the murder of13 women and attacks on several others. Sutcliffe was in June 1946 inBingley, West Yorkshire, the son of John and Kathleen Sutcliffe. Aloner at school, Sutcliffe left at the age of 15, taking jobs includingthat of a grave digger during the 1960s. He is also known to haveworked at the Baird Television factory between November 1971 and April1973, leaving after the company asked him to join the sales team;subsequent jobs included a stint as an HGV driver. Sutcliffe was afrequent user of prostitutes during his youth and is believed to havehad a bad experience with one, during which he was conned out money; anincident which may have helped fuel his violent hatred towards women.
Peter Sutcliffe was a married man at the time of his arrest in 1981,having been married to Czech born Sonia Szurma on 10th August 1974. Hiswife suffered a series of miscarriages over the next few years and weresubsequently informed that they would not be able to have children. Asa result, Szurma returned to a teacher training course and beganteaching in 1977; the couple used the additional money to buy theirfirst house in Bradford in the same year. The couple were still livingin this house in 1981 when Sutcliffe was arrested for the murders.
Sutcliffe's first known serious assault came in July 1975, when heattacked 36 year old Anna Rogulskyj by striking her with a hammer andslashing her stomach with a knife as she walked alone in Keighley. Heleft without killing her after being disturbed by somebody, shesurvived the attack after extensive medical treatment but was leftseverely traumatised by the events. In the following month, August1975, hr attacked 46 year old Olive Smelt in Halifax using the samemethod by striking her from behind with a hammer and slicing herbuttocks with a knife, his victim was badly injured but survived;albeit also severely traumatised. In the same month, on 27th August, heattacked Terry Browne a 14 year old in Silsden; this time he struck thegirl some five times with a hammer. Miraculously Browne survived totell the tale, and Sutcliffe admitted this crime in 1992. Peter Sutcliffe's first murder soon followed on 30th October 1975,the victim being 28 year old Wilma McCann from Chapeltown in Leeds.Sutcliffe struck the mother of four twice with a hammer before stabbingher some 15 times in the neck, abdomen and chest. It is believed thatshe may also have been **ually assaulted as traces of semen were foundon the back of her underwear. A huge police investigation wasundertaken involving 150 police officers and 11,000 interviews, but thepolice failed to uncover Sutcliffe. One of McCann's daughters committedsuicide in December 2007 following years of struggle in coming to termswith the event.
It was just a few months before Sutcliffe killed again, this time hekilled 42 year old Emily Jackson, a married woman from Leeds infinancial difficulties; Jackson had been using her families van to makecash giving **ual favours. Sutcliffe used his usual technique ofhitting his victim on the head with a hammer before stabbing her 51times in the neck, chest and abdomen with a sharpened screwdriver. Healso stamped on her thigh, leaving behind an impression of his bootwhich would further tease officers who were desperate to catch theunknown psychopath. Four months went by before his next attack, thistime it was 20 year old Marcella Claxton who had been offered a lifthome by Sutcliffe after he saw her walking home from a party. WhenClaxton got out of his car to urinate, he hit her with a hammer frombehind. Claxton survived the attack and would later testify againstSutcliffe at his trial.
It is believed that Sutcliffe had a significant gap betweenkillings, with the next known murder taking place in February 1977 whenhe attacked 28 year old Chapeltown prostitute Irene Richardson inRoundhay Park. Again he used a hammer, hitting her repeatedly with itbefore mutilating her dead body with a knife. Police were given afurther clue, this time it was tyre tracks near the scene whichprovided a huge list of possible vehicles. It was just two months laterthat he would kill again, this time another prostitute on 23rd April1977, this time it was 32 year old Patricia Atkinson who was killed inher flat. police found a boot print on the bedclothes.
It was just two months until his next murder in June 1977, again inChapeltown. a 16 year old named Jayne MacDonald. MacDonald was not aprostitute and it was this murder that showed the women of Yorkshirethat anybody could be a victim of this type of crime. In July,Sutcliffe attempted to murder 42 year old Maureen Long before he wasinterrupted by a passer by and fled. The witness identified the make ofhis car, but police could still not find Sutcliffe despite the numberof policemen on the case being doubled to 300 and a further 12,500statements being taken.
Peter Sutcliffe's next venture took him outside of Yorkshire, thistime it was 20 year old Manchester prostitute Jean Jordan who waskilled on 9th October. Police did not find her body for 10 days, butthey noted that it had been moved several days after the killing.Sutcliffe later confessed that he realised that he was traceable to anew bank note that he had given her and so he returned to the body. Hewas unable to find her handbag so instead he tried to remove her headwith a hacksaw and a large pane of broken glass to try and disguise thedeath as a trademark ripper attack. The police later recovered thehandbag and £5 note, which was traced back to branches of the MidlandBank in either Shipley or Bingley - both towns close to Sutcliffeshome. Extensive police investigations into the banking process narrowedthe possible recipients down to just 8000 local employees who were paidtheir wages through the banks. Police interviewed 5000 men over thefollowing three month period, including Sutcliffe, but did not connecthim with the murders. Sutcliffe went on to attack another prostitute,25 year old Marilyn Moore, on 14th December. Moore survived and wasable to provide police with a description of the attacker; police werealso able to identify more tyre tracks which matched those previouslyfound,
In January 1978 police ended their search for the recipient of the£5 note, with Sutcliffe being interviewed and disregarded several timesby the Ripper squad. In that same month he was to kill again, attackinganother Bradford prostitute - 21 year old Yvonne Pearson - hiding thebody under an old discarded sofa; the body was not uncovered untilMarch. He killed again at the very end of the same month, on 31stJanuary, this time it was Helen Rytka an 18 year old Huddersfieldprostitute. After a few months of inactivity, Sutcliffe was to kill yetagain. 40 year old Vera Millward died in the car park of the ManchesterRoyal Infirmary on 16th May. It was almost a year before he killedagain, when he killed 19 year old bank clerk Josephine Whitaker inHalifax after assaulted her as she walked home from work, Police gainednew forensic evidence but were thrown off of the scent by a series ofhoax taped messages from a man with a Wearside accent claiming to bethe killer.
The search became focused on the Castletown area of Sunderland. Thehoaxer, who had been dubbed 'Wearside Jack' had sent two letters to thepolice in 1978 boasting of his crimes; both of which had been signed'Jack The Ripper' and claimed responsibility for a murder which PeterSutcliffe did not actually commit. It should perhaps be noted that JohnSamuel Humble was charged in 2005 of attempting to pervert the courseof justice. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison on 21st March 2006.Sutcliffe's next murder victim was to be 20 year old Barbara Leach, aBradford University Student, who was murdered close to her universitylodgings. Whilst the media was pushing a wearside connection, Sutcliffewas actually interviewed again on at least two separate occasions in1979. By this point he was still on a narrowed down list of just 300possible recipients of the £5 note, and even matched certain forensicevidence, yet was still not strongly suspected by the police. Sutcliffewas interviewed on a total of nine occasions in relation to the crimes.
Sutcliffe was arrested in April 1980 of drink driving, and killedtwo more women whilst awaiting a trial on this charge, 47 year oldMarguerite Walls and 20 year old Jacqueline Hill a student at theUniversity of Leeds. He is also known to have attacked at least twoother women, both of whom survived. He was reported in November 1980 asa suspect by one of his closest friends, however police were swampedwith accusations from a worried public and this lead was lost amidst asea of information. It was assumed by his friend that the police hadfollowed up on the lead and cleared him of any involvement.
Sutcliffe was finally arrested on 2nd January 1981, after beingfound by police to have 24 year old prostitute Olivia Reivers in hiscar in the Broomhill area of Sheffield. He was arrested on the groundsof having false number plates on his car and was transferred toDewsbury police station to be investigated for this offence. Officersat Dewsbury noticed that he met many of the characteristics of theYorkshire Ripper and questioned him in relation to the case. The nextday, the police found a knife, a hammer and a rope at the site of hisarrest in Sheffield. They later found a second knife in the toiletcistern at the police station after telling officers that he needed touse the toilet. When Sutcliffe was strip searched at the policestation, they found that he had been wearing a 'V neck' sweat top underhis trousers with his groin exposed at the 'V' and with padded elbowsto protect his knees - presumably because he knelt over the corpses ofhis victims. It was not until 2003 that the public were informed of thesweater, and the obvious **ual implications, in a book by MichaelBilton titled 'Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper'. Aftertwo days of questioning, Sutcliffe admitted that he was the YorkshireRipper on 4th January 1981, he said that he was told to murder by God;he was charged on the next day 5th January 1981.
Sutcliffe pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of murder, insteadpleading manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility; thebasis of the claim centered around his belief that god had told him tomurder prostitutes whilst he was working as a gravedigger. Theprosecution intended to accept a plea of manslaughter on the basis offour psychiatrists diagnosing him as a paranoid schizophrenic, howeverthe trial judge rejected the plea and insisted that the case be decidedby jury. In the subsequent two week trial he was found guilty of allcounts of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment; he is entitled toapply for parole in 2011 at which time he will be 65 years old andwould have served 30 years in prison.
Sutcliffe began his sentence at HMP Parkhurst on 22nd May 1981 andwas soon diagnosed with schizophrenia, however attempts to transfer himto a secure psychiatric units were repeatedly blocked. He was attackedseveral times at Parkhurst and eventually sent to Broadmoor Hospital inMarch 1984. He has been attacked several times, and there have beenattempts on his life on numerous occasions; including one incidentwhere he lost the site in one of his eyes. He narrowly avoided losingthe site in his remaining eye after an attempt by a fellow prisoner toblind him. It was reported on 17th February 2009 that Sutcliffe was fitto leave Broadmoor, leaving the Ministry of Justice to decide whetheror not he can be moved to a medium-secure unit to continue hisrehabilitation.
Yorkshire Ripper locations within West Yorkshire (Victims 6 & 9 are off this map to the south west.)Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering the following 13 victims:
30 October 1975 Wilma McCann 28 Prince Phillip Playing Fields, Leeds[3]
20 January 1976 Emily Jackson 42 Manor Street, Sheepscar, Leeds[4]
5 February 1977 Irene Richardson 28 Roundhay Park, Leeds[5]
23 April 1977 Patricia Atkinson 32 Flat 3, 9 Oak Avenue, Bradford[6]
26 June 1977 Jayne MacDonald 16 Adventure playground, Reginald Street, Leeds[7]
1 October 1977 Jean Jordan 20 Allotments next to Southern Cemetery, Manchester
21 January 1978 Yvonne Pearson 21 Under a discarded sofa on waste ground off Arthington Street, Bradford[9]
31 January 1978 Helen Rytka 18 Timber yard in Great Northern Street, Huddersfield
16 May 1978 Vera Millward 40 Grounds of Manchester Royal Infirmary
4 April 1979 Josephine Whitaker 19 Savile Park, Halifax
2 September 1979 Barbara Leach 20 Back of 13 Ashgrove, Bradford 20 August 1980 Marguerite Walls 47 Garden of a house called "Claremont", New Street, Farsley, Leeds[
17 November 1980 Jacqueline Hill 20 Waste ground off Alma Road, Headingley, Leeds
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