EVIL YORKSHIRE RIPPER HAUNTS HOMES UNDER THE HAMMER!
IF you thought the death of the Yorkshire Ripper meant we could draw a veil over the sordid serial killer, think again.
Because the GHOST of the monster has popped up on daytime TV.
And with almost unbelievable irony, the spectre of the monster appeared on an edition of Homes Under the HAMMER!
A Sunday Sport reader, who asked not to be named for fear of appearing ghoulish, contacted us to say he’d spotted Peter Sutcliffe’s face on Tuesday’s edition of the top rated house buying show.
Sure enough, there was Sutcliffe’s eerie image in a hedge behind presenters Martin Roberts, Dion Dublin and Martel Maxwell.
Our source said: “I’d had quite a lot of ciders the night before and a few more that morning to take the edge off, so naturally I thought I was seeing things.
“So when the show came on iPlayer, I looked again, just to make sure. And yes, there he was.
“It chilled my very soul to think that the black soul of Peter Sutcliffe is haunting a TV programme.
“It could be worse, of course. It could have been Jimmy Savile haunting Children in Need.”
Last night a BBC source said the image of Sutcliffe on Homes Under the Hammer was “troubling” but that any investigation would have to wait “until we’ve covered up this stuff about Princess Di being tricked into the Panorama interview.” Sutcliffe’s spooky appearance on Homes Under the Hammer is not the only way the killer – who murdered his victims with a ball pein hammer – has extended his tentacles from the “other side”.
A four- part Netflix series, which starts on December 16, looks at how Sutcliffe terrorised the streets of Britain from 1975 to 1980.
A trailer for The Ripper released by the streaming giant last week shows its look back at his murders will be unflinching.
It’s billed as a careful examination of the impact on Sutcliffe’s victims and the issues of the time – including police mishandling of the case, which hampered the investigation.
Sutcliffe died of the COVID on November 16 in HM Prison Frankland, Durham, aged 74.
The murders whipped up national hysteria, with a long line of women in the north of England butchered and police seemingly at a loss.
Sutcliffe was caged for life after being convicted of 13 murders.
A Netflix source said: “Sutcliffe dying just before the release is good news for ratings.
“You make your own luck in this game.”