The Yorkshire Ripper House
He is serving 20 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment which was increased to a whole life order in 2010.
The yorkshire ripper house. Yorkshire ripper peter sutcliffes gruesome murder method and appalling victim injuries barbara leach 20 a student was murdered while walking home from a night out in bradford on september 1 1979. The guardian says that police investigators became convinced that the killer was on a personal crusade against local sex workers and that led to the victims being labeled at the very least of doubtful moral character. Peter sutcliffe 74 the yorkshire ripper is gravely ill after refusing medical treatment at the university hospital of north durham in the wake of heart problems and coronavirus complications. On 22 may 1981 sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others.
This 1978 file photo shows peter william sutcliffe the alleged yorkshire ripper. Dubbed the yorkshire ripper the assailants identity went unknown for years in fact police were totally misled by a hoax which took detectives to sunderland allowing sutcliffe to keep on killing. Over the next six years the man who came to be known as the yorkshire ripper attacked again and again and heres the first of many tragic footnotes to the case. The yorkshire rippers ex wife of 20 years still lives in the house she shared with the serial killer even though she divorced him and remarried.
5 1981 file photo shows peter william sutcliffe 35 under a blanket at right being led from dewsbury magistrates court in dewsbury by police officers. The 68 year old even continued to visit her.