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Sutcliffe in prison van on way to the Old Bailey in London, May 1981 (left). The Ripper has reportedly asked a Frankland governor to persuade Sonia to visit as prisoners are banned from making video calls to potential visitors. ‘But it is a wonder than she is in touch with him at all, or in fact that anyone is’, the source added. Sources said he ‘tends to mope around and complain’ about the potential of never seeing his ex-wife before he dies. He had told his friends about the ‘Sonia problem’, a source told the Sun on Sunday, as he ‘desperately tried to find a way through’ missing Sonia. In February Sutcliffe asked prison bosses to set up a video call to remarried Sonia at HMP Frankland in County Durham. In 2015, Sutcliffe complained that he missed ‘his Sonia’ and claimed her new husband was ‘jealous’ of their friendship and preventing her from visiting him behind bars.Įarlier this year, Sutcliffe ‘sent a Valentine’s card to Sonia and asked if she would visit him in prison’ because he was ‘in bits’ that he may never see her again. Sutcliffe was the newly-married former grave digger whose brutal reign of terror instilled unshakeable worry in the North of England as police failed to pick up the clues in their pursuit of the notorious murderer known as the Yorkshire Ripper He then began a detailed confession lasting 24 hours, and asked for Sonia to be brought in so he could tell her personally that he was the Ripper. When the net closed in on Sutcliffe and he confessed, he calmly told Detective Inspector John Boyle, who was interviewing him : ‘It’s all right, I know what you’re leading up to. The 28-year-old sex worker and mother-of-four was battered to death in the early hours of October 30 1975.
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Less than a year later, the lorry driver picked up a hammer and began attacking women, two in Keighley and one in Halifax.Īll three survived and police did not notice the similarities between the attacks. The pair patched things up and on August 10 1974, Sutcliffe married Sonia. The year after Sonia and Peter got engaged, Sutcliffe’s brother spotted her being driven by an Italian businessman in a white Triumph Spitfire.Īfter a furious argument, Sutcliffe picked up a prostitute that evening in Bradford in a bid to cheat on his then-wife.ĭespite changing his mind at the last minute, he went on the claim the woman swindled him out of £5 – triggering a bitter hatred for the sex workers he then went on to murder. Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe (pictured) has died at the age of 74 after contracting coronavirus