The Yorkshire Ripper serial killer has died in hospital, the Prison Servicehas confirmed.
Peter Sutcliffe had reportedly refused treatment at UniversityHospital of North Durham after being transferred there from maximum securityHMP Frankland, where he was an inmate.
Sutcliffe, 74, had tested positive forCovid-19 and was suffering from underlying health conditions.
He was serving awhole life term for murdering 13 women across Yorkshire and the North Westbetween 1975 and 1980.
Crime correspondent Martin Brunt looks back on the investigation into Peter Sutcliffe and how it changed policing.
The serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper has died. Peter Sutcliffe, 74, murdered at least 13 women in the late 1970s.
Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, has died aged 74. Sutcliffewas convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to..
