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Let fiend go blind

EXCLUSIVE: Victim’s son slams cushy NHS treatment

THE son of one of Peter Sutcliffe’s victims yesterday blasted his trip to a hospital eye unit and said: “They should let him go blind.”

Neil Jackson, 57, was horrified after seeing our exclusive pictures of the Yorkshire Ripper strolling in the sun without handcuffs on.

Yesterday Neil, whose mum Emily was killed by Sutcliffe, said: “He murdered 13 women, including my mum and destroyed our family.

“Yet now he’s walking around without a care in the world in nice clothes, eating what he wants. It is disgusting.

“He’s one of Britain’s most dangerous men, what were they thinking?


Ripper’s out: Killer wears no cuffs for NHS trip


“It’s beggars belief that they would let him out without handcuffs.

“If it was down to me he would have a ball and chain on.

“They shouldn’t have treated him at all. He lost the right to be cared for when he went round killing people. He gets better fed than me and I work six or seven days a week.

“If they have to treat him make him wait until the end of the day when everyone else had been seen. The whole thing stinks.”

Women he slaughtered ... Ripper's 13 victims

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Neil’s mum Emily, 42, was Sutcliffe’s second murder victim when he smashed her over the head with a hammer and stabbed her 51 times with a sharpened screwdriver.

The family had fallen on hard times and Emily was soliciting on the streets of Chapeltown, Leeds, when she was picked up by the beast in January 1976. Neil remembers the day two police officers called at the family home in Churwell, Leeds, as if it was yesterday.

He said: “I was getting ready to go to work in the family roofing business when there was a knock on the door. The officers broke the news to my dad then he came through and just told me: ‘Your mum’s died’.

“It was devastating. I was in shock. But at first I just thought it was some sort of accident.

“It was only later in the day that it sank in that she had been murdered which made it even worse.

“I went to identify her body with my dad which is something no son should ever have to do. She had died from terrible injuries, truly awful. It is still beyond me how anyone could do that to another human being.

“I was closer to my mum than dad so it hit me really hard. I felt so helpless that I wasn’t there to protect her when she needed me most.”

Neil was shocked to discover his mother had turned to vice, like many of Sutcliffe’s victims.

He said: “It took me nearly ten years to accept that my mum had been earning money like that.

“But no woman would choose that path unless it was absolutely necessary. We were so poor we had rabbit for Christmas dinner, we couldn’t afford turkey.”

Sutcliffe went on to kill 11 more women before his arrest in Sheffield in January 1981. Neil said: “When I heard I thought about bloody time. It had been an awful few years.

“I was glad he got a life sentence but he should have been hanged. Why should hard-working taxpayers, including many of his victim’s relatives, have to pay for his upkeep?

“He lives a life of luxury better than many people who’ve never committed a crime in their lives.”

Emily’s picture takes pride of place in Neil’s living room in Armley, Leeds, and he “talks” to her every day. He said: “When I go out I say: ‘I’m off mum’ and when I return I say: ‘I’m back mum’. People might think I’m demented but it’s my way of her keeping her memory alive.

“It will be 40 years next January since she was taken from us.

Monster through the years

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“I normally go out and get drunk on the anniversary to numb the pain but this time I’m going to go away to try to escape the bad memories.”

Divorced Neil, who has a son and a grandson, reads books about Sutcliffe and watches every documentary he can find on him. He said: “It’s just in the hope of finding out something new. To try and understand what he did.

“My mum would help anybody. She was a generous, caring woman who was loved by everyone.

“At the other end of the spectrum is Sutcliffe. He might be fatter and older but he’s still pure evil.”

The first picture of Sutcliffe in 20 years, showing his bloated features and greying beard, was revealed by The Sun on Sunday in February. He still bears the scars of jail attacks.

Last night MPs and justice campaigners told of their disgust at Sutcliffe’s treatment. Victims’ rights campaigner Norman Brennan said: “With the NHS in crisis and many law-abiding members of the public kept waiting for an infinite amount of time, questions have to be asked. It would have incurred great expense carrying him to hospital and back.

“And God forbid that one of his surviving victims had inadvertently been at the hospital, as seeing him would have been unforgivable.”

Fabian Hamilton, Labour MP for Leeds North East, where first victim Wilma McCann, 28, was killed, said: “We have a duty to treat prisoners humanely. I am just surprised they couldn’t treat him at Broadmoor, which is after all, a hospital. The damage he did to so many lives can never be forgiven.

A small number of people in this world should not be allowed into normal society.”

Yorkshire Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke said: “To use the scarce resources of the NHS on a mass murderer is very difficult to comprehend.”

Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of The TaxPayers’ Alliance, added: “Many taxpayers will resent handing over so much of their hard-earned cash to this individual.”

Sick toll of worst murder monster


JUNE 1946: Born in Bingley, West Yorks.

AUG 1974: Marries Sonia Szurma.

JULY 1975: Attacks Anna Rogulskyj in Keighley, West Yorks.

OCT 1975: Kills first victim Wilma McCann in Leeds.

JAN 1976: Emily Jackson becomes second victim.

1975 to 1980: Total of 13 women killed and seven attacked in Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.

NOV 1980: Leeds University student Jacqueline Hill is his last murder victim, stabbed with a screwdriver near Headingley’s Arndale shopping centre.

JAN 1981: Stopped by police in Sheffield in a car with false plates. He dramatically confesses.

Lorry driver ... Sutcliffe

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MAY 1981: Old Bailey trial: Pleads not guilty to murder but guilty to 13 counts of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

MAY 1981: Given 20 life sentences, and must serve at least 30 years. Sent to Parkhurst, Isle of Wight.

JAN 1983: Attacked by James Costello with broken coffee jar.

MARCH 1984: Sent to Broadmoor under the Mental Health Act after being diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic.

MARCH 1997: Loses sight in right eye after inmate Ian Kay stabs him.

JAN 2005: Allowed “compassionate” trip to site of father’s ashes.

At court ... Isle of Wight

M and Y Portsmouth
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DEC 2007: Suffers scarring under his right eye in attack by psychopath Patrick Sureda.

OCT 2014: Turned down for move to hospital in Wakefield, West Yorks.

NOV 2014: We reveal Sutcliffe has had a heart attack and is suffering severe health problems.

JAN 2015: Is told sight in right eye is deteriorating and he could go blind.

MAY 2015: Told he could be returned to jail. Tells Broadmoor bosses he is hearing “voices” again.

AUG 2015: Treatment in a bid to save eyesight.

SEPT 26, 2015: Pictured outside Frimley Park Hospital’s eye unit.


Look out for more amazing pictures tomorrow