This is a piece I had published on the Hallam FM web pages while I was completing work experience there. Sorry their are no pictures to go with my story.
"The Yorkshire Ripper has been told today that he will spend the rest of his life in custody.
Peter Sutcliffe, who's now known as Peter Coonan was convicted of 13 counts of murder back in 1981.
The former lorry driver received 20 life sentences for murdering 13 women and attempting to murder 7 others across Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. No formal limit on his sentence has ever been set - until the High Court made that call today.
Sarah Robinson, a Yorkshire Psychology expert, said:
"People don’t like the fact that he’s wanting to know these things because it’s almost like an insult. How dare you think that we will even consider this after the things you’ve done."
Sutcliffe has spent all of his years in custody at Broadmoor top security psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed as mentally ill.
He attacked his victims with a hammer, a sharpened screwdriver and a knife which gave him the "Ripper" name. His first murder was on 5 July 1975 and he claimed he was on a mission from God to kill prostitutes, despite not all of them working in the sex industry.
Mr Justice Mitting, said:
"This was a campaign of murder which terrorised the population of a large part of Yorkshire for several years."
He added,
"Apart from a terrorist outrage, it is difficult to conceive of circumstances in which one man could account for so many victims. Those circumstances alone make it appropriate to set a whole life term."
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