The Yorkshire Ripper’s funeral cost taxpayers thousands of pounds. The Prison Service spent £3,000 on Peter Sutcliffe’s secret cremation after he died aged 74 last November, the Ministry of Justice confirmed.
The serial killer was reported to have had an interest in half of the house he bought with ex-wife Sonia, which is now said to be worth £250,000.
However, rules state that prisons must help towards “reasonable” funeral expenses when an inmate dies in custody if the family has no plans in place.
The controversial payment is designed to cover burial costs of inmates who are penniless or estranged from their families. It can pay for a funeral director, hearse, simple coffin, and burial or cremation but not a headstone, flowers, obituary
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