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The Yorkshire Ripper
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Overview
Peter Sutcliffe was born at Shipley, West Yorkshire, on 2nd June 1946.
During the period in which his admitted crimes were committed he was employed as a tyre fitter, and subsequently, following qualification as a heavy goods vehicle driver, as a lorry driver for the Bradford engineering and transport company, T. & W.H. Clark (Holdings) Ltd.
On the 10th April 1974 he married Sonia Szurma.
Initially Sutcliffe lived in Clayton with Sonia's parents. From September 1977, they moved to a detached house which he bought in the Heaton district of Bradford.
Sir Lawrence Byford
Sir Lawrence Byford report into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper case.
Cars known to be owned by Peter Sutcliffe
EUA 831K - At the time of his marriage to Sonia Szurma Peter Sutcliffe owned a lime green Ford Capri with the registered number EUA 831K.