ITV viewers have been left horrified by a new documentary about notorious serial killer Peter Sutcliffe and the murders which were linked to him but he was never charged with.
The new two part documentary, which concludes on Thursday night, links more than 20 unsolved murders and attempted murders to Sutcliffe by looking at key evidence and trying to unearth just why he was never a suspect for them, despite his convictions.
Those who tuned into the first episode of Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders on ITV on Wednesday were left shocked by a witness statement from former Coronation Street actor Bruce Jones.
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The man known to millions as Les Battersby, found the brutally murdered body of Jean Jordan, while he was working on an allotment in 1977.
Despite a £5 note, traced back to a company Sutcliffe worked for, being found in Jean's pocket, he was discounted as suspect.
What happened to Peter Sutcliffe?
Despite never being charged with the murders of Jean Jordan and numerous other women, Sutcliffe was found guilty of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980 in 1981.
Two of the killings took place in the Manchester area, with all the others happening in West Yorkshire, hence the Yorkshire Ripper title he was given by the British media at the time.
After being convicted for the murders, Sutcliffe was sentenced to 20 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment, which were then turned into a whole life order in 2010.
He served the early part of his sentence in HMP Parkhurst, where he was seriously assaulted by fellow inmate James Costello, before being transferred to Broadmoor under the mental health act.
Reports claimed that he was attacked by convicted robber Paul Wilson, in 1996 who attempted to strangle Sutcliffe with the cable from a pair of stereo headphones.
A year later, Sutcliffe lost the vision in his left eye after being attacked with a pen by fellow inmate Ian Kay.
Another attack against the Yorkshire Ripper was reported in 2007, when Patrick Sureda lunged at him with a metal cutlery knife.
Nearly a decade later, in 2016, a medical tribunal ruled that Sutcliffe, who latterly used the name Peter Coonan, no longer required treatment for a medical condition and he was moved to HMP Frankland in Durham.
Sutcliffe died at the nearby University Hospital of North Durham on November 13 2020 at the age of 74.
He was taken into the hospital with coronavirus after suffering a suspected heart attack just a few weeks earlier.
A coroner's report concluded he'd died from Sars 2 pneumonia caused by Covid-19, with it later being revealed that he had refused to shield against the virus, despite being recognised as vulnerable.
Frankland has been dubbed the 'house of horrors' after also being home to killers Ian Huntley, Rose West, Levi Bellfield and Michael Stone.
Both episodes of Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders are available to watch on ITV Hub.
