Ripper ‘now transferred to Durham’
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has been moved out of Broadmoor psychiatric hospital and back into jail, according to reports.
Sutcliffe, 70 ,has spent 32 years inside the in Berkshire after murdering 13 women and attempting to kill seven more between 1976 and 1981.
The police investigation into his attacks came toSunderland when John Humble sent detectives tapes claiming to be the murderer between 1978 and 1979.
The Wearside Jack case led to Humble being jailed for eight years in 2006 for perverting the course of justice after he was traced though DNA on the envelopes.
Plans for the transfer of Sutcliffe emerged earlier in August and it has been reported he is now in HMP Frankland, on the outskirts of Durham.
Sutcliffe, who has been in Broadmoor since 1984 after he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia following his life sentence in 1981, will continue to have his mental health assessed in prison and could be returned to a psychiatric hospital if there is a change in his condition.
It has been estimated that the move will save the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Dr Ruth Tully, a consultant forensic psychologist at the University of Nottingham, said cost would not have been a factor in the ruling.
Sutcliffe, a former lorry driver from Bradford, now calls himself Peter Coonan. Most of his victims were prostitutes who were mutilated and beaten to death.
He was given 20 life terms for the murders.
A Prison Services pokeswoman said :“We do not comment on individuals.”
“We do not comment on individuals” PRISON SERVICE