Yorkshire ripper has died after contracting COVID

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Every cloud...

1 good thing to come out of all this then

Excellent news. Friday the 13th too. Very fitting

Covid has done something good for the world

Bit weird too that the BBC have a brief clip of a work colleague. Apparently they all knew and joked about it.

(That he was the Yorkshire ripper, not his death from covid-19)

Would wish a COVID death on very, very few people. He is one of them. I hope it was very painful. Can't imagine what his victims went through and their families. I was a teen at that time living in a town it was thought might be next on his list. And I went to a uni interview and had to walk past the chalk outline of his latest victim. Was very scared until he was caught.

I was at Uni in Bradford in the Yorkshire Ripper days, one of our students was murdered, horrific times.

I’m annoyed that his death his headline news this morning. Annoyed that every morning programme is about him. When a person who has committed abhorrent crimes like he has dies, only silence should follow his death. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Just forgotten about. Now they analysing his crimes on Jeremy Vine, describing how he murdered his victims etc etc as if he is some kind of celebrity. How is this useful for his victims? I believe his victims should have been informed of his death and nothing more.

It's not about him being a celebrity, it's a reminder that women are second class citizens still. Any good that comes out of this is women waking up to how we are treated in society and stopping accepting the norms

Glad he's gone, angry that he didn't have the decency to tell us the rest of it before he did. Those poor families.

I cheered when I heard this news. I was in secondary school in Manchester when he was murdering these women and remember the police searching the fields next to my school. It was a terrifying time. At least Covid was good for something.

A truly awful man.

I saw him on a trip to Broadmoor when I was a psychology student. He was outside wandering around the grounds in a dressing gown and slippers feeding the birds. We were all told not to make eye contact with him as we walked past. I found him chilling even though I was in a small group of people and “safe”.

Not getting at you at all OP but his name was Peter Sutcliffe. I feel that ‘the Yorkshire Ripper’ gives him a sort of notoriety and interest that I should imagine that he revelled in. He was just Peter. Boring, cowardly Peter. I’m glad he’s dead and I hope it gives his victims’ families some peace.

Some people don't deserve life, he was one of them.

Bit weird too that the BBC have a brief clip of a work colleague. Apparently they all knew and joked about it.
They did not know. They joked about him being the ripper because he was taken in for questioning so many times and released. The interviewee even said something at the end like 'and look at him now'. They were shocked as it was a joke that turned out to be the truth.

The world is a slightly better place today.

I read an article that he was refusing treatment for covid and actively wanted to die from it. He’s been living in a pretty poor state of health and in a fairly hostile environment for many years by all accounts.

I’m pretty neutral about his death - it’s neither a good thing or a bad thing. It doesn’t erase the pain and suffering he caused in the world, it’s at most an ending to his part on the planet.

Finally some good news!

@Ragwort

I was at Uni in Bradford in the Yorkshire Ripper days, one of our students was murdered, horrific times.

Sadly this was probably the chalk outline I saw x

Great news.

This added to Cummings' departure and Trump's downfall shows that every vile creature out there eventually get their comeuppance ...

I think what he did was absolutely appalling but I still can't be pleased that anyone has suffered the horrible death that Covid-19 causes.

I was surprised to read that his dad described him as a mummy's boy as a child as he clung to his mum. His dad said he seemed detached from other children. He was a loner, introverted and had difficulty forming relationships and he used to stand in a little corner of the schoolyard where he stayed for the whole of the play hour. When he was a teenager he was an oddball who had difficulty holding a conversation unless it was about motorbikes or cars which he was obsessed with. It makes me wonder whether, had he been born in recent times, his behaviour would have been picked up on at a earlier stage. Perhaps he could have been helped so that he didn't go on to commit these horrendous crimes.

I feel for his victims and their families who have suffered for so long. Richard McCann, son of the apparent first victim, speaking in BBC Breakfast today gave a truly horrific insight into how he felt at the time. He also said that he wasn't glad that Peter Sutcliffe was dead and "far from it".

Hope the cunt suffered.

I still can't be pleased that anyone has suffered the horrible death that Covid-19 causes.

'Kin hell

I hope as well that the hospital staff found a way to degrade him in his last weeks.

@Aoki I agree with you, the media are beside themselves aren’t they? Not just that, but why has BoJo released a statement? Talk about add fuel to the fire. We should be asking ourselves if that much has really changed for women in the years that have passed instead.