Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has died aged 74 after being diagnosed with coronavirus. The notorious serial killer murdered 13 women during the 1970s and 1980s before his arrest in 1981.
He is also known to have attacked at least nine other women. Sutcliffe had refused treatment for Covid-19 at the University Hospital of North Durham, three miles from the maximum security Frankland jail where he was an inmate.
Two weeks ago, the serial killer was treated at the same hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack. He went back to prison but was taken back to hospital after developing coronavirus.
A Prison Service spokesman said: "HMP Frankland prisoner Peter Coonan (born Sutcliffe) died in hospital on 13 November. The Prisons and
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