Yorkshire Ripper
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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.
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.
Police
Detective Superintendent Perry was assigned to investigate the brutal attack of Anna Rogulskyj
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.
