Infamous serial killer 'Yorkshire Ripper' useless at 74

Printed Nov 13, 2020 • 1 minute learn

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Peter Sutcliffe, the infamous British serial killer generally known as the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’, has died after contracting COVID-19.

Sutcliffe, who murdered at the very least 13 girls throughout the north of England within the late Nineteen Seventies, died at College Hospital of North Durham, England, a U.Okay. Jail Service spokesman confirmed to Sky Information on Friday.

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The 74-year-old, who additionally had quite a lot of different underlying well being issues, reportedly refused therapy for COVID-19.

Sutcliffe terrorized West Yorkshire and Manchester from 1975, sparking one in all Britain’s greatest manhunts which lastly concluded in 1981 along with his conviction for the murders of 13 girls.

He spent three a long time on the Broadmoor Hospital high-security psychiatric unit earlier than being moved to Her Majesty’s Jail Frankland in County Durham in 2016.

Sutcliffe is understood to have began attacking girls within the late Sixties however his first identified homicide occurred in 1975 when he killed 28-year-old mom of 4 Wilma McCann – and he remained at giant till his arrest in 1980.

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McCann’s son Richard informed Sky Information: “He ruined so many lives. He’ll go down as a type of figures from the 20th century in the identical league I suppose as somebody like Hitler.”

An official reason for dying has but to be confirmed, pending a coroner’s examination.

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