This Morning host Holly Willoughby was left uncomfortable with a "chilling" comment made by The Yorkshire Ripper, as heard in a new documentary to air on Tuesday night.
She shared her horror over the remark Peter Sutcliffe had made about a near-victim, as heard for the first time in Channel 5's The Ripper Speaks: The Lost Tapes.
Investigative reporter Mark Williams-Thomas was given access to hours and hours of recordings, featuring the serial killer who murdered 13 women in a six-year killing spree.
In the recordings, which Sutcliffe did not know were being carried out as he opened up about his crimes, he details unsolved crimes he had previously not admitted to - while also claiming some of his victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Sutcliffe died at HMP Frankland from a combination of Covid-19 and heart disease in November 2020.
Speaking on This Morning on Tuesday, Mark revealed there had been hope to air the documentary while he was still alive, after they were given the go ahead by an external council - despite fears from those involved in the project.
But it's something that Mark revealed to hosts Holly and Alison Hammond about the night of Sutcliffe's arrest, that left both of them visibly horrified.
He spoke for the first time about his intentions for Olivia Reivers, a prostitute who was with Sutcliffe at the time he was arrested by police.
Mark revealed the killer "chillingly" admitted that she was "minutes" from death, and that he would have killed her too if it had not been for his arrest.
He explained: "The other thing we get from him is he tells us for the very first time about the day he was arrested, and it’s chilling because what he tells us, and we probably worked this out but we’ve never had it from him, is when he picks up Olivia, the prostitute he gets arrested with, he literally was minutes away from killing her.
"When we ask him about that he very clearly says, 'why else do you think I picked her up?'."
Alison reacted: "Oh my goodness," as Holly added: "That’s horrible."
Alison then asked if he showed any remorse over the murders during his "open" conversations.
Mark told her: "He shows small signs of remorse, and the remorse though is always captured around the fact of what’s the impact on him.
"So this is a man who doesn’t believe he is an offender, [or that] he’s as bad as some others."
He went on: "I've listened to hours and hours of recordings from him, and he talks about other people he’s in jail with being much worse offenders than him and that he’s not that bad.
"He genuinely believed he was going to get out. This was a man who was so deluded that he believed at some stage he would be released back into society."
The Ripper Speaks: The Lost Tapes airs Tuesday at 10pm on Channel 5.
