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EXCLUSIVE: On Friday January 2, 1981, PC Bob Hydes arrested the UK's most wanted criminal, Peter Sutcliffe who, over six years of brutal violence between 1975 and 1981, murdered 13 women.
In the late seventies, Peter Sutcliffe, aka “The Yorkshire Ripper” went on a killing spree, brutally targeting women, and left the police baffled for years before he was finally caught
Bruce Jones became an unlikely suspect during Peter Sutcliffe's savage murdering spree in the 1970s. He spoke about it in last night's Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders on ITV.
The Ripper, originally named Once Upon a Time in Yorkshire, charts the gruesome crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, a lorry driver from Bingley who was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven more between the years 1975 and 1980. Given the brutal nature of the killings, many of which involved a hammer and a knife, the press began referring to him as the "Yorkshire Ripper" on account of the parallels between himself and Jack the Ripper. KeystoneGetty Images Sutcliffe was given 20 life sentences in 1981 and was sent to Parkhurst prison on the Isle of White. Less than three year...