Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe to go back to prison after 32 years in Broadmoor

Transferring the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, from Broadmoor psychiatric hospital to jail will save the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Ruth Tully, a consultant forensic psychologist at the University of Nottingham, said cost would not have been a factor in the ruling to transfer the serial killer.

Sutcliffe, 70, who has spent 32 years in the high-security institution, in Berkshire, after murdering 13 women and attempting to kill seven, between 1976 and 1981, will also face a much tougher regime in prison, Dr Tully said.