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A new Netflix series revisiting the crimes of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, has outraged viewers who claim it still perpetuates the attitude that some of his victims lives meant less because they were sex workers.  The crimes of the serial killer who murdered 13 women and attempted to kill many others in the 1970s, have been well documented, but a new generation has been left shocked to hear sex workers among Sutcliffes victims referred to as pests, good time girls or having gone down...

Netflix’s The Ripper tells how Peter Sutcliffe could’ve been caught two years earlier The four-part series landed on the streaming service this week and follows the police struggle to capture the Yorkshire Ripper throughout 1970s Britain. Sign up to FREE email alerts from Daily Record - Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. ...

The police search for evidence Credit: Netflix Netflix’s four-part Yorkshire Ripper documentary has been already condemned by families of Peter Sutcliffe’s victims as insensitive and guilty of glorifying his murders. Netflix is, in particular, accused of sensationalism after changing the name of the series from the relatively thoughtful Once Upon a Time in Yorkshire to the more lurid – as the families see it – “The Ripper”. “Please remember that the word “ripper” relates to...