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Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. [2]: 144 He was dubbed in press reports as the Yorkshire Ripper, an allusion to the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper
Peter Sutcliffe (The Yorkshire Ripper) Yorkshire Ripper victim 5 Feb 1977 Irene Richardson [3] Leeds, Yorkshire Hammer blows to head Peter Sutcliffe (The Yorkshire Ripper) Yorkshire Ripper victim 22 March 1977 Barbara Young [15] Doncaster, Yorkshire Blows to the face Believed to be a victim of robbery as handbag was stolen [15] 23 April 1977
Private Eye admitted at the time that it had made two errors in the article, but the plaintiff (Sutcliffe) rejected the offer of a correction. [9] At the end of the trial on 24 May, Sutcliffe was awarded record libel damages against the magazine of £600,000, or £100,000 more than the previous highest amount. [10]
The son of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe’s first victim has said he forgives his mother’s killer following a meeting with Desmond Tutu. Richard McCann was just five when his mother Wilma was ...
These are the 13 victims the Yorkshire Ripper murdered during his five-year killing spree in northern England.
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She was the first of three children born to Wilfred and Irene (née Sutcliffe) MacDonald, with a sister, Debra, born in 1961 and a brother, Ian, born in 1964. MacDonald had two older half-sisters—twins Carole and Janet—from her mother's first marriage. [4] [n 1] Her father worked for British Rail and her mother was a
The moment serial killer Peter Sutcliffe was finally caught by police has been reproduced in the ITV serial drama The Long Shadow. Sutcliffe, who murdered 13 women across Yorkshire over a period ...