Ripper ‘will never be freed’

THE notorious crimes committed by Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe — who is never to be released — were described as being at the “extreme end of horror” by top judges yesterday.

Ripper ‘will never be freed’

The Lord Chief Justice in Britain, and two other Court of Appeal judges, dismissed an appeal by the serial killer against an order that he must serve a “whole life” term.

Sutcliffe, now 64, received 20 life terms for the murder of 13 women and the attempted murder of others in Yorkshire and Greater Manchester after being convicted at the Old Bailey in 1981.

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