This dehumanization contributed to and enabled the perpetrator to evade capture for so many years. On January 2, , the police pulled Sutcliffe over with a young woman in his car. He was arrested when they discovered the car had false plates, and brought in for questioning about the murders, as he matched many of the descriptions given by survivors of previous attacks.
Two days after the arrest, Sutcliffe admitted he was the Ripper, and detailed many of his crimes to the police. Peter William Sutcliffe was sentenced to 20 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment. His wife, Sonia Szurma, obtained a separation from him in and a divorce in July of Although he was found sane at his trial, Sutcliffe was transferred to a high-security psychiatric hospital in March of after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Sutcliffe became eligible for parole after 30 years in prison, but in received a whole life tariff when he applied, meaning he would never be released. In August , it was ruled that he was mentally fit to be returned to prison, and was transferred to a prison in Durham, England. The title of the Netflix series has sparked controversy among its participants. Sutcliffe was transferred from prison to a high-security psychiatric hospital in March after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
He was then transferred back to HMP Frankland in after being found fit enough, and he died in November of this year aged Although Sutcliffe was arrested on 2 January it was several days before the driver was revealed to be the deadly serial killer.
He was found in a car in the tree-lined Melbourne Avenue in Sheffield with year-old prostitute Olivia Reivers. At the time, the area was a known as being a red light district. Sutcliffe was arrested after a check found his car had false number plates, and he eventually transferred to Dewsbury Police Station, where he was questioned in relation to the Yorkshire Ripper case. He had also hidden a second knife in the toilet cistern at the police station.
After searching his home on Garden Lane in Heaton, Bradford, police brought his wife in for questioning. This came after a five-year bungling police investigation that made repeated mistakes and followed misleading hoaxes. They had all the facts. Over the following hours, Sutcliffe described his many attacks.
But how did they finally discover who he was, after so many years falling under the radar? The identification and subsequent capture of the man labelled 'The Yorkshire Ripper' by the media was actually quite fortuitous.
Initially, Peter Sutcliffe was only stopped by police in Sheffield because they suspected his car had false number plates. The investigation took a while to get off the ground because, at first, police didn't link the murders.
The attacks took place across Leeds, Bradford, Manchester, Huddersfield and Halifax, which meant officers were thrown off the scent of a serial killer being to blame. But after a pattern began to emerge with all the killings - victims were all struck over the head with a hammer before being stabbed with a knife or screwdriver - it was clear they were after one man. When two policemen in Sheffield walked past a brown Rover in January , and noticed the car's registration plate did not match the number on the tax disc, they stopped the man at the wheel.
Peter Sutcliffe was sitting inside the vehicle with a sex worker, and instantly came to the officers' attention because he fit the description of the Yorkshire Ripper. After allowing Sutcliffe to go to the toilet behind a nearby building, the police sent him to Dewsbury to be interviewed. There, officers searched his car and discovered screwdrivers in the glove compartment. A later inspection back at the site of Sutcliffe's arrest revealed he had discarded a hammer and a knife when he supposedly went to relieve himself behind the building.
The Yorkshire Post reports a second knife had been hidden in a police station toilet before he was searched. During a strip search, officers noticed that Sutcliffe was wearing elbow padding, as well as an upside-down V-neck jumper under his trousers, exposing his genitals.
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