Peter Sutcliffe has died

[Ginfordinner]

I was a student in Leeds during his reign of terror. I won't mourn his death.

I'm glad he is dead. I am not glad that we know his name. I find it so upsetting that we know the names of these animals but not necessarily the names of the victims. Inadequate men like him want the recognition. The police have already learned from this case so the best thing now is to completely forget him and concentrate on the victims and their families.

He lived far longer than he ever should have done.

@WildRosie he had stolen number plates on his car.

@WildRosie

Good riddance to bad rubbish. I remember very clearly when he claimed his last victim and when South Yorkshire Police arrested him for the final time - over a traffic offence, I think.

I think it was Wearside Jack who was caught in that way. He misdirected the investigation to the North East with hoax phone calls which caused the deaths of more women in time/resources lost.

@InsanityOf2020

Is cheering the wrong reaction to this news?

Nope.

I too hope it was painful and miserable for him.

Thinking of his victims, their families and grown up children.

I am glad that although there is still huge progress to be made, when watching the 3 part doc, the attitudes, what was written in the media and the police approach to the victims now looks pretty shocking instead of still being acceptable. Those women deserved much better.

What shame...never mind 🤷🏻‍♀️

A colleague who was at Leeds a few years after he was caught said she never felt comfortable in her room which was near the old room of one of his victim and used as a storeroom.

Just a little thing - but it struck me at the time, the way the poison just went on and on.

I hope it hurt.

He should have been hung. Pure evil man who not only murdered 13 women and suspected of murdering 22 more but also guilty of attemped murfer of a few survivors of his gruesome attacks. He made orphans of so many children. The tax payers money should not have been wasted keeping this scum alive. He terrorised a nation for several years. I'm glad he is dead I hope it was long and painful.

Hopefully they couldn't find the key to the cupboard with the pain relief.

Good. Is it wrong I'm just as angry with the police and the media as I am with him? He did kill them, but he was insane. The way they behaved, I just can't get over it. They're attitude to the women who were killed was almost like they took his side. They were worthless and deserved what they got. I hope everyone one of them were racked with guilt.

@Amortentia

Good. Is it wrong I'm just as angry with the police and the media as I am with him? He did kill them, but he was insane. The way they behaved, I just can't get over it. They're attitude to the women who were killed was almost like they took his side. They were worthless and deserved what they got. I hope everyone one of them were racked with guilt.

There was a 3 part documentary not that long ago that looked into the police investigation.

The shift in attitude (and not just the police ) when "nice" girls were killed was sickening.

Yes, Sutcliffe is dead. Sadly the society that bred him isn't. That's when I'll cheer.

That's the society that thinks it's perfectly acceptable to trawl through the vicitms life to excuse their rapist. Not gone away, and since I've been waiting since the 70s, not going anywhere anytime soon either.

@GreyBow thank you.

@SerendipityJane

I read an interview by Wilma McCanns son and it was so sad. It was only written in October and it was about how Yorkshire police still haven't apologised about how they spoke about the women or their investigation. I can't imagine having your mum murdered and the police bungling the investigation AND making public derogatory comments about her.

Good. I was 16 at the time he was on the loose. I remember looking at every man on the bus and thinking ‘could you be who’s doing this. I’d just started work and remember feeling petrified in winter when I got off the bus in the dark and had to walk the rest of the way home. The world is a much better place without that depraved bastard in it.

@GreyBow excellent post. Say their names.

@theotherfossilsister yes, tweet. I have too. We should all be saying their names.

I read an interview by Wilma McCanns son and it was so sad. It was only written in October and it was about how Yorkshire police still haven't apologised about how they spoke about the women or their investigation. I can't imagine having your mum murdered and the police bungling the investigation AND making public derogatory comments about her.

"Bungling" is far too generous. It was criminally mismanaged and women lost their lives as a result.

The documentary I mentioned had interviews with some of the children of the victims. Very tough viewing.

I live in Sheffield where he was caught, I can remember hearing on the radio on a Sunday night that he had been caught. My cousin adopted the child of the prostitute he was with when he was caught.

made my day.

I was going out with a student in Leeds. One night I was in the pub when the police came in and played the Wearside Jack tape. I wanted to throw up. It didn't stop me doing things, but it taught me to suspect every man.

@Redshoeblueshoe

I was going out with a student in Leeds. One night I was in the pub when the police came in and played the Wearside Jack tape. I wanted to throw up. It didn't stop me doing things, but it taught me to suspect every man.

Part of the criminal bungling. Not only was Wearside Jack not Sutcliffe (so you all wasted that chance to catch him). The police were told it wasn't - and why - by a US expert in serial killers whose advice they asked .

They finally caught that bastard too.

I do think his family also deserve some compassion.

@YouCantBeSadHoldingACupcake

I seriously hope the bastard suffered horribly first

This is what I thought, too. After the first thing I thought, which was Good.

My only worry is if there are any unsolved murders, etc, that he committed and which may now not be solved.