The Yorkshire Ripper Has Died

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Good fucking riddance
"The serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper has died.

Peter Sutcliffe, 74, was one of the UK's most notorious prisoners, having murdered at least 13 women across the north of England in the late 1970s."

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"It is understood Sutcliffe had refused treatment after contracting coronavirus at HMP Frankland in County Durham."
news.sky.com/story/yorkshire-ripper-serial-killer-peter-sutcliffe-has-died-sky-news-understands-12131042?utm_source=upday&utm_medium=referral

Friend of mine who was a student at Leeds at the time phoned in tears of strange relief and sorrow at the news. Sorrow for the victims and families and that although much has changed women still deal with Male violence and cjs discrimination. The fight continues. Support all.

I'm Yorkshire born and was in the area at the time. I remember the absolute fear my mum and aunties had. Incidentally in a previous role I worked at broadmoor and another high security prison. If the general public ever knew the full extent of how prisoners in high security are treated there'd be a scandal. It is a life of luxury, of being waited on hand and foot, day trips to scenic places, lovely food on demand, access to immediate healthcare - no waiting lists, all mod cons, all demands met and believe me the demands of these vile men never stopped. It was so shocking and disgusting that I left the career as I couldn't face pandering to the whims of men who had rallied and murdered women and children. I don't believe all of them were schizophrenic, it was often suggested in medical circles that PS was not but played up on it so he'd be in high security rather than a real prison. Hope he suffered.

Ignoring victims of crime is not 'a mistake'.

Which crimes were ignored or not investigated? It took time for the police to link the crimes. Especially in an area where violent crime was common place

WY was/is a high crime area. PS was not the only man murdering, maiming or attacking women in the area at the time

I'm quite aware of West Yorkshire, it's where I spent the first years of my life and where I have visited relatives frequently.

My comments on the area are more for the benefit of everyone.

I watched documentary a few years ago, maybe 5 years ago, the senior officers being interviewed were still talking about 'innocent' victims.

The Ripper Files?
The programme I thought was balanced and yes it did show one former police officer, or was it a prosecutor, who made a poor remark but it also showed a number former police officers who had worked on the investigation who didn't and had worked hard on the case and who did sympathise with all the victims. It also showed former female detectives who had too.

Oh and they were offered the use of a computer.

Did they take up the offer? But how much use a computer of the time would have been is anyones guess. The paper data that would have had to be put into the system, a computer system with every limited primtive capacity, would have been vast, and very time consuming

Sutcliffe had been arrested by the time I was born in the mid 1980s so I have no memories of what that time was like and have only just become aware of the affect it had on women all over the country. Julie Bindel has an excellent BBC article on this (I think from 2015) that I read this morning.
The Spectator also has an excellent article on the legacy of Sutcliffe and the men like him. The way misogyny allows the horrific details of these crimes to be reported so salaciously; to diminish the women who were raped, murdered and defiled to props in the sadistic actions of men. They also suggest that the failure of wider society to take action on hardcore violent pornography and the “sex game gone wrong” defence allows men like Sutcliffe in the 21st century to continue to abuse women in plain site.

I was fifteen when he was arrested. I've only just started wondering if that fear of walking alone on the streets was because of PS or whether it was there before.

They shouldn't look into his background to try and find an answer to why he killed women. What they should do, is look into how men who hate women and want to kill us are produced and what we as a society can and should do to stop producing these fuckers.

I am sick and tired of media reports of various woman-killers talking about their childhood, problematic relationship with their mother/ ex girlfriend/ wife etc. and studiously ignoring the misogyny that is part and parcel of our society.