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Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was suffering Covid-19, diabetes and heart disease when he died, inquest told
direct to your inboxA coroner is awaiting the prison ombudsman’s report into the death of the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, who died from a combination of Covid-19, diabetes and heart disease in November 2020, an inquest hearing was told today.Crispin Oliver, the Assistant Senior Coroner for County Durham and Darlington, held a brief hearing at Crook Civic Centre to give an update into how the inquiry was progressing.Sutcliffe, dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, murdered 13 women and attacked more, terrifying Northern England in the late 1970s until he was finally arrested in 1980.Mr Oliver said the life prisoner changed his surname by deed poll in 2001 and for the purposes of the inquest will be known as Peter William Coonan, previously
