Ripper link to Sweden kills

YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is being investigated over the murders of two women in Sweden.

The serial killer was named by British police to their foreign counterparts as a possible suspect, Swedish tabloid Kvallsposten reported.

Detectives were said to have inquired about the murders of two women, aged 31 and 26, found dead on Swedish building sites in 1980.

An active investigation was said to be under way after it emerged a single hair found on the body of one of the victims had been preserved and could provide hard DNA proof of the killer’s identity.