Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe may abandon plan to convert to Islam after being told he’d need to be CIRCUMCISED

THE Yorkshire Ripper is having second thoughts about converting to Islam - because he will have to be circumcised.

Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe was considering changing his religion in a bid to protect himself from daily death threats in jail.

The 70-year-old had been hoping to to enjoy the protection of hardline Islamist lags after being moved to HMP Frankland from Broadmoor Hospital.

But Sutcliffe is now having second thoughts after the Muslim prisoners told him he would have to get the chop.

All Muslim men have the operation within a few weeks of being born but it is not always mandatory for adult converts because the surgery can be extremely painful.

However, the lags want Sutcliffe to show he has properly converted by getting the chop.

The Yorkshire Ripper, who murdered 13 women and tried to kill seven more in the late 70s, has been attending daily Islamic prayer meetings and has been given a copy of the Koran.

The bloated monster has also stopped eating pork in a bid to convince the inmates he is serious about the conversion.

A prison source told the : "He was told by his Muslim brothers he could only show he had properly converted to Islam if he was circumcised.

“When he was told that the operation is incredibly painful he went very quiet and very white.

“Sutcliffe asked if there was any alternative but was told there was none.”

Multiple murderer Sutcliffe has faced daily death threats since moving to the prison - regarded as one of Britain's toughest - in August.

The jail, in Durham, is home to serial killers and some of the country's most violent offenders.

Four years ago, child rapist Mitchell Harrison, 23, was disembowelled by two lags inside the jail.

Sutcliffe was sent to notorious hospital Broadmoor after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1984 but was found to no longer require medical treatment by a tribunal in December.

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