Thankfully, there is no reason to think he committed any further murderous assaults within that period. [7] The High Court dismissed an appeal by Sutcliffe in 2010, confirming that he would serve a whole life order and never be released from custody. [135], The song "Night Shift" by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees on their 1981 album Juju is about Sutcliffe.[136]. 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. 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. [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. Warning: This article contains details of violence some readers may find distressing. [69] Byford said: The failure to take advantage of Birdsall's anonymous letter and his visit to the police station was yet again a stark illustration of the progressive decline in the overall efficiency of the major incident room. 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]. The Telegraph reports the murderer claimed he had been "directed by God to kill prostitutes" as reasoning for the grim attacks. The 1982 Byford Report into the investigation concluded: "The ineffectiveness of the major incident room was a serious handicap to the Ripper investigation. 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. On January 2, 1981, the police pulled Sutcliffe over with a young woman in his car. [14] On 5 March 1976, Sutcliffe was dismissed for the theft of used tyres. The Yorkshire Ripper Is Finally Caught. 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. On 1 October 1977 Sutcliffe murdered Jean Jordan, a prostitute from Manchester. Sutcliffe committed his second assault on the night of 5 July 1975 in Keighley. The Netflix series reveals that the serial killer had murdered 13 women and attempted to murder seven more between the years 1975 and 1980. Apart from a terrorist outrage, it is difficult to conceive of circumstances in which one man could account for so many victims. [115], On 17 February 2009, it was reported[116] that Sutcliffe was "fit to leave Broadmoor". [137], The 13 May 2013 episode of Crimes That Shook Britain focused on the case. [105] The Home Office confirmed that it was, indicating that Sutcliffe can be ruled out of unsolved murder cases in which there is existing DNA evidence such as in the Mayo, Stratford and Weedon cases. I see you're having no luck catching me. Sutcliffe spent thirty years at Broadmoor Hospital before being moved to HMP Frankland in County Durham four years ago 2016. While awaiting trial, he killed two more women. Initially, Peter Sutcliffe was only stopped by police in Sheffield because they suspected his car had false number plates. "Everybody wanted him caught . A detailed history, The ending of Sex/Life season 2 explained, 'Hollywood Ripper' murdered Ashton Kutcher's date. Birth City: Bingley, West Yorkshire. For five years, between 1975 to 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper murders cast a dark shadow over the lives of women in the North of England. I'm Jack. He was arrested when they discovered the car had false plates, and brought. Humble was remanded in custody and on 21 March 2006 was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison. The play focuses on the police force hunting Sutcliffe. [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. West Yorkshire Police made it clear that the victims wished to remain anonymous. Sutcliffe struck the back of her skull twice with a hammer, then inflicted "a stab wound to the throat; two stab wounds below the right breast; three stab wounds below the left breast and a series of nine stab wounds around the umbilicus". [86][90] There were also two men on Hellawell's list of possible victims. 2,164. In 1981, Yorkshire lorry driver Paul Sutcliffe was convicted of murder. "[38], On 4 April 1979, Sutcliffe killed Josephine Whitaker, a 19-year-old building society clerk whom he attacked on Savile Park Moor in Halifax as she was walking home. [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 is confirmed to have brutally murdered 13 women between 1975 and 1980 before he was stopped. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, who murdered 13 women and attacked seven others between 1975 and 1980 across West Yorkshire, plus two in Greater Manchester. He then disarranged her clothing and slashed her lower back with a knife. [54], West Yorkshire Police was criticised for being inadequately prepared for an investigation on this scale. It was decided that prosecution for these offences was "not in the public interest". [29] An extensive inquiry, involving 150 officers of the West Yorkshire Police and 11,000 interviews, failed to find the culprit. Weeks later he claimed God had told him to murder the women. Sutcliffe died from diabetes-related complications in hospital, while in prison custody on 13 November 2020, at the age of 74. I have the greatest respect for you George, but Lord! [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. On 16 July 2010, the High Court issued Sutcliffe with a whole life tariff, meaning he was never to be released. Was the Yorkshire Ripper Caught? His 200-strong ripper squad eventually carried out more than 130,000 interviews, visited more than 23,000 homes and checked 150,000 cars. [71] In 1969, Sutcliffe, described in the Byford Report as an "otherwise unremarkable young man", came to the notice of police on two occasions over incidents with prostitutes. After a two-hour representation by the Attorney-General Sir Michael Havers, a ninety-minute lunch break, and another forty minutes of legal discussion, the judge rejected the diminished responsibility plea and the expert testimonies of the psychiatrists, insisting that the case should be dealt with by a jury. [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. 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. The police have always had a poor understanding of what drives violence against women. [86] At the time detectives did not believe Schlessinger's murder was a Ripper killing as she was not a prostitute. After hosting a family party at his new home, he returned to the wasteland behind Manchester's Southern Cemetery, where he had left the body, to retrieve the note but was unable to find it. [32] Sutcliffe hit her on the head with a hammer, dragged her body into a rubbish-strewn yard, then used a sharpened screwdriver to stab her in the neck, chest and abdomen. A report compiled on the visit was lost, despite a "comprehensive search" which took place after Sutcliffe's arrest, according to the report. 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. Attempts to send him to a secure psychiatric unit were blocked. [127] In August 2016, a medical tribunal ruled that he no longer required clinical treatment for his mental condition, and could be returned to prison. Cosmopolitan UK's current issue is out now and you can SUBSCRIBE HERE. 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. Once she was dead, Sutcliffe mutilated her corpse with a knife. The visit led to front-page tabloid headlines. 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. 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. Born and raised in Yorkshire, England, he had mental troubles since childhood. I hasten to add that I feel sure that the senior police officers in the areas concerned are also mindful of this possibility but, in order to ensure full account is taken of all the information available, I have arranged for an effective liaison to take place.[69]. Clark (Holdings) Ltd. on the Canal Road Industrial Estate in Bradford. Her body was dumped at the rear of 13 Ashgrove under a pile of bricks, close to the university and her lodgings. [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. 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. 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. The 2021 podcast Crime Analysis covers Sutcliffe's crimes, focusing on the victims, the investigation and forensics, trial, and aftermath including an interview with the son of victim Wilma McCann. [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. [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. [112] In 2003, it was reported that Sutcliffe had developed diabetes. 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. Peter Sutcliffe died in hospital aged 74 in . Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead The group and other feminists had criticised the police for victim-blaming, especially for the suggestion that women should remain indoors at night. [75], Yallop highlighted that Steel had always protested his innocence and been convicted on weak evidence. 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. [9][pageneeded], The first victim to be killed by Sutcliffe was Wilma McCann on 30 October. [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. [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. Sonia had several miscarriages, and they were informed that she would not be able to have children. The chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Federation responded to this news with a. I have the greatest respect for you, George, but Lord, you're no nearer catching me now than four years ago when I started."[39]. 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. He was the subject of one of the most expensive manhunts in British history, making fools of the West Yorkshire Police. Tyre tracks found at the scene matched those from an earlier attack. He often used the services of sex workers in Leeds and Bradford and targeted them. Sutcliffe was accompanied by four members of the hospital staff. [103], In 2015, authors Chris Clark and Tim Tate published a book claiming links between Sutcliffe and unsolved murders, titled Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders. Now, Netflix is showing a documentary looking into the harrowing crimes the Yorkshire Ripper committed, in a new four part series. 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. [86][88][87] Twelve of these occurred within West Yorkshire, while the others took place in other parts of the country. [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 total, Sutcliffe had been questioned by the police on nine separate occasions in connection with the Ripper enquiry before his eventual arrest and conviction. The police told him he was "very lucky", as the woman did not want anything more to do with the incident. [5] This drew condemnation from the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), who protested outside the Old Bailey. The Yorkshire Ripper began his gruesome crusade of violence against women in 1975, when he killed 28-year-old mother-of-four Wilma McCann, 28 as she walked home from a night out in the early hours of 30 October. [113], Sutcliffe's father died in 2004 and was cremated. [2]:36. The 5 note, hidden in a secret compartment in Jordan's handbag, was traced to branches of the Midland Bank in Shipley and Bingley. Leeds was the epicentre of Ripper activity, with six murders and five attacks in the city. But "for some inexplicable reason", said the Byford Report, the papers remained in a filing tray in the incident room until the murderer's arrest on 2 January [1981], the following year.[69]. This inquiry also looked at the killings of two prostitutes in southern Sweden in 1980. Police were able to trace the note back to the bank, which consequently narrowed their search down to around 8,000 people. [92] Detectives had been able to compare Sutcliffe's DNA with the killer's in order to eliminate him from the inquiry. [139], A three-part series of one-hour episodes, The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story, by filmmaker Liza Williams aired on BBC Four in March 2019. Sutcliffe was charged with multiple counts of murder, and was found guilty at a trial in the Old Bailey later that year. 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". [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. Two of Sutcliffe's murders took place in Manchester; all the others were in West Yorkshire. When she got out of the car to urinate, he hit her from behind with a hammer. Give yourself up before another innocent woman dies". Only days after Sutcliffe's conviction in 1981, crime writer David Yallop asserted that he may have been responsible for the murder of Carol Wilkinson, who was randomly bludgeoned over the head with a stone in Bradford on 10 October 1977, nine days after Sutcliffe's killing of Jean Jordan. [99][92], Other forces across Britain also investigated links between Sutcliffe and unsolved murders in their force area. [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. [13] She required multiple, extensive brain operations and had intermittent blackouts and chronic depression. Over five years, as more women were mutilated and killed, the clues that pointed to Peter Sutcliffe grew within that vast pile of evidence. That month, Sutcliffe killed again. The man who hoaxed detectives by claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper has died, police have confirmed. [43] On 25 November 1980, Trevor Birdsall, an associate of Sutcliffe and the unwitting getaway driver as Sutcliffe fled his first documented assault in 1969, reported him to the police as a suspect. [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. 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. She was suffering from hypothermia when found and was in hospital for nine weeks. McCann, from Scott Hall in Leeds, was a mother of four children between the ages of 2 and 7. But when he was finally caught in 1981 it was for driving with false number plates. . On 1 September, Sutcliffe murdered 20-year-old Barbara Leach, a Bradford University student. [143] To be titled The Long Shadow, it was expected to air in September 2022.[144]. [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. It was one of the largest investigations by a British police force[55] and predated the use of computers. The Yorkshire Post reports a second knife had been hidden in a police station toilet before he was searched. [27], On 5 February, Sutcliffe attacked Irene Richardson, a Chapeltown prostitute, in Roundhay Park. Sign up to our newsletter to get more articles like this delivered straight to your inbox. During his imprisonment, Sutcliffe was noted to show "particular anxiety" at mentions of Wilkinson due to the possible unsoundness of Steel's conviction. [138], On 26 August 2016, the police investigation was the subject of BBC Radio 4's The Reunion. [48][49], Sutcliffe pleaded guilty to seven charges of attempted murder. [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. 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. Learn how and when to remove this template message, List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (1970s), World's End murders of Helen Scott and Christine Eadie, This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, List of serial killers by number of victims, "The Yorkshire Ripper files: Why Chapeltown in Leeds was the 'hunting ground' of Peter Sutcliffe", "The Yorkshire Ripper files review a stunningly mishandled manhunt", "Sir Lawrence Byford: Yorkshire Ripper report author dies", "Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe 'was never mentally ill' claims detective who hunted him", "Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe's brother describes disturbing childhood growing up with notorious serial killer", "Who is the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe? Many people do. [85] In 2022, ITV broadcast a documentary based on Clark and Tate's book which discussed links between Wilkinson's murder and Sutcliffe. At his trial he pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of diminished responsibility, but he was convicted of murder on a majority verdict. [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. By the mid-1970s Wilma, 28, was bringing up four kids on her own in a house with no carpets or heating. [118] The court decided that Sutcliffe would never be released. 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 . 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. Employing the same modus operandi, he briefly engaged Smelt with a commonplace pleasantry about the weather before striking hammer blows to her skull from behind. 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. The identification and subsequent capture of the man labelled 'The Yorkshire Ripper' by the media was actually quite fortuitous. He went on a killing spree and was even a suspect of the cops, but by the time they put 2 and 2.
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