NEW AGONY AUNTIE IS... THE RIPPER
He doles out advice in cell
THE Yorkshire Ripper is dishing out relationship advice from his cell to women trapped in abusive partnerships.
Peter Sutcliffe, 74, has been writing scores of letters to “fans” to counsel them on their rocky love lives – despite using knives, hammers and screwdrivers to kill
13 women and attempting to murder seven more.
A collector of the serial killer’s notes and possessions told the Daily Star Sunday that Sutcliffe “loves to give relationship advice, like an agony uncle”.
He tells one of his many penpals that an abusive husband should have been charged with grievous bodily harm for attacking a woman.
The sicko says in the four-page note – marked with the name Peter Coonan, which Sutcliffe also uses: “I’m surprised they didn’t charge him with GBH from your description of her injuries!!
“She obviously hates the guy and she’s a lot better off leaving him! I still believe she has pretty strong feelings for you!”
The letter containing Sutcliffe’s advice was passed on by a Northern Irish collector of serial killer memorabilia – known as “murderabilia”.
He did not want to be named for fear of repercussions about his grim hobby.
But he said he knew of “scores more letters” in which Sutcliffe had dished out relationship advice.
The source added that one of Sutcliffe’s favourite topics was discussing women trapped in abusive relationships.
This was possibly because it allows him to get his kicks from hearing the brutal details of the attacks they suffered.
The collector said: “It’s never been highlighted, but collectors have noticed a trend in Sutcliffe’s letters that shows he loves being in the position of a relationship counsellor.
“He especially loves giving advice on abusive relationships, partly maybe because it gives him kicks to hear about battered women – or maybe because he is trying to make up in some small way for what he did.”
The collector says that along with Sutcliffe’s letters being sold online, there are many more being sold between collectors for tens of thousands of pounds on the “Dark Web”.
Former lorry driver Sutcliffe was handed 20 life sentences at the Old Bailey in
1981 for his horrific reign of terror in Yorkshire and Manchester from 1975 to
1980 that shocked the nation.
He claimed at his trial that he’d been hearing “voices from God” ordering him to kill sex workers.