what happened to the yorkshire ripper

Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, was convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others; he died in hospital in November 2020 at age 74 while serving a whole-life term.

What happened

• He carried out a series of murders across Yorkshire and north-west England from 1975 to 1980.

• Police questioned him several times during the investigation, but he was not arrested until January 1981, when a routine stop led to his capture.

• He later confessed, and in May 1981 he was sentenced to 20 life terms.

Later years

• Sutcliffe spent many years in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital before being moved to HMP Frankland in 2016.

• In 2018, police said they had no intention of bringing further charges against him.

• He died in 2020 after refusing treatment for Covid-19, according to reports.

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