Families should benefit from Ripper’s estate
SON OF MURDERER SUTCLIFFE’S SECOND VICTIM IN PLEA FOR COMPENSATION
THE Yorkshire Ripper’s estate should go to the grieving families of his victims, says the son of the second woman killed by the late Peter Sutcliffe.
Neil Jackson hit out at Peter Sutcliffe’s ex-wife Sonia for refusing to comment on the families’ plea for compensation.
It is not clear what the contents of Sutcliffe’s will are but he is thought to have owned two plots of land in Scotland that were gifted to him by a female admirer.
The Ripper once boasted that one of the Kray twins – infamous gangsters from London’s East End – had offered to buy the land, reports the Mirror.
Mr Jackson, 62, told The Mirror: “I’d hate to think he had left money and the victims were not compensated.
“I never got a penny after my mum was murdered. Anything that he has should go to families.
“I think somebody high up should be looking into it and get compensation for us.”
Sonia, 70, seen out shopping earlier this month, has been asked about the estate but replied simply: “No comment.”
She was named as Sutcliffe’s next of kin and she still stays in their marital home in Bradford, despite having remarried.
Neil’s mother Emily Jackson, from
Huddersfield, was 42 when Sutcliffe hit her with a hammer and stabbed her 52 times in Leeds in 1976.
Reports claimed he had approached her in the street after she left her husband in a pub to earn as a sex worker.
Builder Neil, now a grandad and living in Leeds, added of Sonia: “I’m glad she can enjoy the shops, many of his victims have spent a lifetime struggling for money. I have had to work seven days a week sometimes just to put food on my table.”
He added of finding his mother had been a sex worker: “It was very hurtful when I found out. I’m led to believe they were struggling for money. It affected my relationship with my dad.”
But Neil remembers his mum as a “wonderful” woman, adding: “If you’d ask anyone she’d give you the last sweet she had.”
Sutcliffe died last year aged 74. In 1981 he was convicted of the murders of 13 women.