Outrage as Ripper ‘jumps the queue to have eye op on NHS’
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YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has had an eye operation on the NHS, it was revealed yesterday amid reports that he had jumped the queue.
“It’s a disgrace, they should let him go blind,” said Neil Jackson, whose mother Emily was killed by Sutcliffe.
The serial killer – who murdered 13 women in Leeds, Bradford and Manchester between 1975 and 1980 – reportedly had cataract surgery in Sunderland where patients face a wait of more than 13 weeks.
Some hospitals are even restricting access to the treatment due to the X FACTOR star Nicole Scherzinger shows she definitely has the Sex Factor.
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The sheer black fishtail gown by Michael Costello with black hot pants won her plaudits from admirers.
The former Pussycat Dolls singer was at the star-studded event at the weekend.
Cheered
She was there alongside folk-rock singing legend Joni Mitchell who made a rare appearance after suffering a stroke and a brain aneurysm.
Mitchell was given a standing ovation and the crowd cheered on hearing the 73-year-old Big Yellow Taxi singer was at the event.
She returned the compliment with a smile.
Nineties’ pop princess Britney Spears was also at the glittering occasion, along with Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond and Jennifer Hudson.
Actor Jeremy Renner and TV presenter Ryan Seacrest took their seats on the night with leading executives from the music industry. NHS financial crisis. Sutcliffe, 70, was chained to five guards as he was taken from Frankland jail, near Durham, to Sunderland Eye Infirmary for the operation.
Alec Shelbrooke, MP for Elmet and Rothwell in Yorkshire, said the decision to operate was morally bankrupt.
“He has put his victim’s families through a life sentence – they will never recover from the loss of their loved ones. We have people who are working all the hours under the sun and pay their taxes but are waiting for these operations. I think he should be at the back of the line.”
The operation involves removing the eye’s defective lens and replacing it with a clear, artificial one.
Sutcliffe left the hospital wearing an eye patch. He reportedly told a friend: “My sight has really improved. Now I will be able to see the TV, read and write letters.”
The killer is blind in his left eye after being attacked at Broadmoor Hospital in 1997.
John O’Connell, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “Treatment should be available for all but when law-abiding taxpayers wait for months, or even years, for their treatment, this will stick in the craw.”
Sutcliffe was jailed in May 1981 after being found guilty of 13 counts of murder. He claimed to have heard voices in his head telling him to attack prostitutes although not all of them were.
He was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1984 but a tribunal ruled in August that Sutcliffe no longer needs treatment for mental disorders. The Ministry of Justice said: “We don’t comment on individual prisoners.”