The Yorkshire ripper, who was found guilty of murdering 13 women on what he described as a ‘mission from God’ to ‘kill prostitutes’, ashes have been scattered at a seaside beauty spot that ‘meant a lot to his family’.
October 1975 – Wilma McCannm, 26, from Chapeltown, Leeds, was hit twice with a hammer and stabbed 15 times in the neck, stomach and abdomen. Her body was discovered in playing fields a few hundred yards from her home.
April 1977 – Patricia Atkinson, 32, was picked up at The Carlisle Pub in Bradford. Sutcliffe went back to her flat and attacked her with a hammer as she walked through the door, leaving a bootprint on a blood stained sheet. January 1978 – Yvonne Pearson, 21, was picked up by Sutcliffe in Bradford and taken to a piece of waste ground behind an industrial site. He hit her over the head several times with a hammer as she got out of the car. As another car pulled in, Sutcliffe dragged her to an old sofa, pulled our horse hairs from it and stuffed them down her throat to stop her screaming. After she stopped breathing he made a makeshift grave with soil and rubble and covered it with the sofa.
April 1979 – Building society clerk Josephine Whitaker, 19, was on her way home alone in Halifax when Sutcliffe started chatting to her and walked with her. As they cut through some playing fields he attacked her with a hammer and stabbed her with a screwdriver, 21 times in the chest and stomach and six times in the right leg.
November 1980 – Jacqueline Hill, 20, was returning to her student halls in Leeds when Sutcliffe got out of his car and began following her. He hit her on the head and dragged her to some spare land and stabbed her in the chest and eye with a screwdriver.
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