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Death of Yorkshire Ripper who 'left 26 orphans' brings coward's reign of fear to end
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mirror.co.ukThe judge who caged him branded him “cowardly” but right up to his death, Peter Sutcliffe’s name sent shivers down spines. The fiend – who claimed God had told him to murder prostitutes – was locked up for nearly 40 years.
He killed 13 of the 20 women he attacked and his sickening crimes cast a shadow of fear across West Yorkshire and Manchester, sparking the biggest police manhunt Britain had known.
But the Yorkshire Ripper’s agonising death from Covid-19 is unlikely to bring comfort to the families of victims. Harry Smelt, husband of survivor Olive, once said a death sentence was too good. “He left 26 orphans,” he said. “How can anyone be punished for that adequately?” Sutcliffe was born in Bingley, West Yorks, in 1946.
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