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  root > 30-07-2019, 08:48 PM

  Tracy Browne - Yorkshire Ripper Victim

  In August 1975 Tracy Browne lived with her parents at Upper Hayhills Farm which was just outside Silsden.
  
  Tracy Browne lived at the farm with her parents Anthony and Nora Browne and three sisters.
  
  On Wednesday, 27 August, 1975, Tracy and her twin sister, Mandy, went into Silsden for a night out.
  
  At 10.30pm they left Silsden to start the long walk up the hill to the farm.  Mandy left Tracy behind on the way home as Tracy said goodbye to friends. About a mile away from the farm Tracy remembers that she sat down on some bricks so that she could remove her platform shoes. As she finished removing her shoes she was in the presence of a man who we would later learn was Peter Sutcliffe.
  
  Tracy described the man as:
  

  • Having a Beard
    
  • Afro-style hair
    
  • Very dark eyes
    
  • Short – somewhere around 5 foot 8 inches
    

  Tracy recalls making small-talk on the way up towards the farm. She felt her companion was ‘charming’ and a ‘nice man’. She recalls him falling back to toes his laces or blow his nose.
  
  At around 50 yards from the farm’s gate Tracy was about to thank the man for his company when she was attacked with a hammer.
  
  Tracy took five brutal blows to the head.
  
  At this time a car started to come up the hill. Sutcliffe threw Mandy over a fence and made off.
  
  Tracy was strong enough to cross a field to a farm worker’s caravan where she raised the alarm.
  
  Tracy was taken to a head injury specialist unit at the Chapel Allerton Hospital in Leeds. Tracy underwent many hours of emergency neurosurgery to remove splinters of bone from her brain.
  
  In 1975 Detective Superintendent Jim Hobson was the Head of CID in Leeds. Hobson took charge of the attempted murder investigation. 
  
  A witness concurred with Tracy’s description of her attacker after seeing him in Silsden. He was also described as being seen near a Ford car.
  
  This is Tracy Browne's identikit picture.  It is astonishing similar to Peter Sutcliffe.
  
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