698
edits
Changes
no edit summary
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.