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Detective Chief Superintendent Hobson, who had replaced [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Detective_Chief_Superintendent_Hoban Chief Superintendent Hoban] in the Eastern Crime Area, investigated the murder of [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Irene_Richardson_-_Yorkshire_Ripper_Victim Irene Richardson].

The incident room was established at [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Millgarth_Police_Station,_Leeds Millgarth Police Station, Leeds].

On the 20th August 1980 [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Marguerite_Walls_-_Yorkshire_Ripper_Victim Marguerite Walls], a 47 year old civil servant, was murdered by Peter Sutcliffe as she walked home in Leeds. She was struck on the head, knocked down and then strangled with a piece of cord. Her body was stripped, indecently assaulted  and  hidden  under a pile of grass cuttings in the grounds of a large house. This case was not initially linked to Peter Sutcliffe.

Detective Chief Superintendent Hobson assumed responsibility for the inquiry and set up an incident room at Pudsey Police Station.