Ripper victim’s son calls for probe into killer’s cash
He says estate should go to bereft families
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THE son of a Yorkshire Ripper victim is calling for a probe into the killer’s finances, saying his estate should go to grieving families.
Neil Jackson, whose mum Emily was the late serial killer’s second victim, hit out at Peter Sutcliffe’s ex-wife Sonia for refusing to comment on the families’ plea for compensation.
The contents of Sutcliffe’s will are unclear but it was claimed he owned two plots of land in Scotland.
He had boasted that one of the Kray twins offered to buy the land, gifted to him by a female admirer.
Mr Jackson, 62, from Leeds, 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 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, 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.
“I pass the spot where she was killed in Roundhay in Leeds quite a lot and the hairs go up on the back of my head. It’s derelict now.”
But Neil remembers his mum as a “wonderful” woman, adding: “If you’d ask anyone she’d give you the last sweet she had.”
Sutclifffe died last year aged 74. In 1981 he was convicted of the murders of 13 women.
I’d hate to think he had money left and the victims were not compensated
NEIL JACKSON SON OF RIPPER MURDER VICTIM EMILY JACKSON