‘Sane’ Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe should be in prison

The Yorkshire Ripper should be returned to prison after psychiatrists said he is no longer mentally ill, according to the son of the first woman killed by Peter Sutcliffe.

Richard McCann was commenting on a recommendation from doctors that Sutcliffe, 69, is taken out of Broadmoor Hospital, the high-security psychiatric centre in Berkshire where he has been held for 31 years, and moved into a specialist prison unit.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said the final decision on whether Sutcliffe will be moved would be made by Justice Secretary Michael Gove.