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 ripping flesh and the repeated use of this phrase is irresponsible, insensitive and insulting to our families and our mothers’ and grandmothers’ legacies,” reads a letter signed by the families of seven of Sutcliffe’s victims and by two survivors of the killer, Marcella Claxton and Mo Lea. Richard McCann, whose mother Wilma was one of Sutcliffe’s first victims, said the Ripper title ran the risk of “possibly inspiring the next serial killer”.