Yorkshire Ripper - The Secret Murders: The True Story of Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe's Reign of Terror

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At his trial he pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of diminished responsibility, but he was convicted of murder on a majority verdict. This investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper and especially focused on the murders and attempted murders that have been linked to him but he has never been charged with. m., she was last seen leaving her council house on Scott Hall Avenue, in the Chapeltown area of Leeds, walking past the nearby Prince Phillip Playing Fields. 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. After leaving Baird Television, Sutcliffe worked nightshifts at the Britannia Works of Anderton International from April 1973.

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The decision to allow the temporary release was initiated by David Blunkett and ratified by Charles Clarke when he became Home Secretary. She was beaten around the head seven times with the handle of a pickaxe, which had caused severe head injuries and fractures to her skull. Because of this occupation, he developed a macabre sense of humour — co-workers reported that Sutcliffe enjoyed his work too much and would even volunteer to do overtime washing the corpses. Amongst other things, the Byford Report asserted that there was a high likelihood of Sutcliffe having claimed more victims both during and before his known killing spree. year-old legal secretary Wendy Sewell was attacked in Bakewell Cemetery at lunchtime on 12 September 1973.Sutcliffe was reported to have been transferred from Broadmoor to HM Prison Frankland in August 2016. While awaiting trial, he killed 47-year-old civil servant Marguerite Walls on the night of 20 August 1980.

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m. leaving a rooming house on Cowper Street, saying she was going to Tiffany's, a pub and disco in the centre of Leeds. 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. She required multiple, extensive brain operations and had intermittent blackouts and chronic depression.On 25 June 1977, 16-year-old Jayne Michelle MacDonald went to meet friends at the Hofbrauhaus, a German-style bierkeller in Leeds. He found Oldfield's focus on the hoax tape wanting, [77] :86–87 [78] and that Oldfield had ignored advice from survivors of Sutcliffe's attacks, from several eminent specialists, from the FBI in the United States, and from dialect analysts [79] Stanley Ellis and Jack Windsor Lewis, [77] :88 that "Wearside Jack" was a hoaxer. Although Sutcliffe was interviewed about the matter, he was not investigated further and was contacted and disregarded by the Ripper Squad on several further occasions. Fortunately serial killers are rare in this country but can we rely on any future cases being investigated in an open minded and thorough way? Sutcliffe was in the area at the time of the attack as his girlfriend, Sonia, was living in Alperton, West London.