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On the l0th July 1977, Peter Sutcliffe attacked Maureen Long on spare ground a short distance from her estranged husband’s home in Bradford. 

Maureen Long, who admitted that she had acted as a prostitute, received serious injuries to her head from hammer blows and stab wounds to her abdomen and back, but fortunately recovered. 

Maureen’s ability to describe her attacker was made difficult because she was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the attack. She thought she had obtained a lift in a car from a large man of about 35 years of  age who  had light brown shoulder length hair. She was not able to give a description of the car which was involved although a nightwatchman saw a car draw away from the scene and described it as a white Mark II Ford Cortina.

The attempted murder of  Maureen  Long was  investigated  by  Assistant  Chief  Constable Oldfield from an incident  room  established  in  Bradford.