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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.
 
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== Sonia Sutcliffe - Ex-wife of the Yorkshire Ripper ==
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[http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Yorkshire_Ripper%27s_wife_Sonia_Sutcliffe_wins_damages_from_Private_Eye 24/05/1989 Yorkshire Ripper's wife Sonia Sutcliffe wins damages from Private Eye]
  
 
== Victims of the Yorkshire Ripper ==
 
== Victims of the Yorkshire Ripper ==

Revision as of 07:19, 25 October 2018

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.

Sonia Sutcliffe - Ex-wife of the Yorkshire Ripper

24/05/1989 Yorkshire Ripper's wife Sonia Sutcliffe wins damages from Private Eye

Victims of the Yorkshire Ripper

Anna Rogulskyj

Anna Rogulskyj was attacked by the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, in Keighley on the 5th July 1975. Sutcliffe attacked his victim with a hammer in an alleyway in Keighley and left her lying on the ground suffering from very severe head injuries. Sutcliffe also inflicted a number of superficial slash wounds to the body. The crime was investigated by Detective Superintendent Perry of West Yorkshire’s Western Crime Area and an incident room was established in the Keighley Division for the purpose of the inquiry. The crime was not linked with any others, neither was it linked with the Ripper series until June 1978 when the West Yorkshire Police issued a “Special Notice” to all police forces about the murders which had, by then, been committed.

Read more about Anna here

Olive Smelt

On the 15th August 1975, just over a month after the Rogulskyj incident, Sutcliffe, after leaving his friend Trevor Birdsall in his car, attacked Olive Smelt with a hammer in Boothtown, Halifax. Sutcliffe inflicted serious head injuries. Using a knife he also inflicted two slash wounds to her back after first disarranging her clothing. Although the nature of the crime was very similar to the attempted murder of Anna Rogulskyj it was not specifically linked with it in police crime circulations, neither was it linked with the Ripper series until June 1978.

Read more about Olive Smelt here

Wilma McCann

On 30th October 1975 Peter Sutcliffe committed his first known murder. Sutcliffe murdered Wilma McCann, a known prostitute, on the Prince Philip playing fields in Leeds.

In a pattern which was to become all too familiar, Peter Sutcliffe hit Wilma McCann on the head with a hammer. At least one of the blows penetrated the full thickness of the skull.

On this occasion, however, unlike the tentative slashings of the bodies of Anna Rogulskyj and Olive Smelt, Wilma McCann was stabbed once in the neck and 14 times in the chest and abdomen.

Read more about Wilma McCann here


Police

Detective Superintendent Perry

Detective Superintendent Perry was assigned to investigate the brutal attack of Anna Rogulskyj

Detective Superintendent Holland

Detective Superintendent Holland established an incident room at Halifax in order to investigate the brutal attack of Olive Smelt on the 15th August 1975,

Detective Chief Superintendent Hoban

Detective Chief Superintendent Hoban, of West Yorkshire’s Eastern Crime Area, was assigned to investigate the brutal murder of Wilma McCann.

Sir Lawrence Byford

Sir Lawrence Byford report into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper case.

Persons of Interest

Trevor Birdsall

Trevor Birdsall was a friend of Peter Sutcliffe and was left in a car in Boothtown, Halifax, when Sutcliffe left in order to carry out a brutal attack on Olive Smelt.

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.