Yorkshire Ripper Wilma Mccann
He was 74peter sutcliffe was serving a life sentence for the killings of 13 women in yorkshire and northwest england between 1975 and 1980.
Yorkshire ripper wilma mccann. British media reported that he had refused. Image caption the son of sutcliffes first victim wilma mccann had appealed for an apology. Wilma mccann a sex worker was also attacked with a hammer and then stabbed two months later becoming the victim of sutcliffes first known slaying on oct. Sutcliffe kills wilma mccann in leeds his first murder.
Peter william sutcliffe born 2 june 1946 also known as peter william coonan is an english serial killer who was dubbed the yorkshire ripper by the press. Sutcliffe went on to murder 12 more women over a. Yorkshire ripper peter sutcliffe dies. He confesses to being the ripper.
Wilma mccann was the first known victim of the yorkshire ripper. He is serving 20 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment which was increased to a whole life order in 2010. Son of victim recalls beautiful moment he learned of serial killers death. She was the first publicly acknowledged victim of the ripper who was to be branded as such after the linked murder of emily jackson in leeds on the 20th january 1976 some 11 weeks later.
London ap the british serial killer known as the yorkshire ripper died friday reviving unsettling memories of a killing spree that bred fear across northern england in the late 1970s. Richard mccanns mother wilma mccann 28 was murdered 45 years ago today friday on playing fields in chapeltown leeds just yards from her home. Her strawberry blonde hair was matted with blood and she had been stabbed in the lower abdomen chest and neck. Wilma mccann worked as a prostitute in leeds.
Sutcliffe is arrested by police in sheffield. A sex worker and mother of four sutcliffe battered wilma mccann to death with a hammer and stabbed her in the neck chest and stomach after. Wilma mccann was the first known murder victim of the man who would soon be known as the yorkshire ripper.