Was Sutcliffe behind these attacks too?

DEBRA SCHLESINGER: Murdered in Leeds in April 1977, the 18-yearold has long been suspected of being another of Sutcliffe’s victims.

She was stabbed through the heart as she walked down the garden path of her home after a night out.

Witnesses recalled seeing a dark, bearded man near the scene. Two days later Sutcliffe murdered Patricia Atkinson in Bradford. MAUREEN LEA: The 20-year-old art student survived an attack on an October night in 1980. As she walked through the grounds of Leeds University she was grabbed from behind – like many Ripper victims – and repeatedly hit about the head, leaving her with many injuries.

The attack took place close to where Sutcliffe murdered Upadhya Bandara the previous month and Jacqueline Hill weeks later. GLORIA WOOD: Miss Wood, then aged 28, was attacked while walking across a school playing field in Bradford in November 1974.

She was hit several times over the head with a hammer by a man who offered to carry her bags. She suffered terrible injuries but survived.

Her description of the attacker was strikingly similar to the appearance of Sutcliffe, who lived nearby.

FRED CRAVEN: In April 1966, almost a decade before Sutcliffe’s first official attack, bookmaker Fred Craven was smashed over the head at his shop in Bingley, West Yorkshire, by robbers who stole £200.

Police arrested Michael Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper’s younger brother, but they failed to interview Peter Sutcliffe, who had repeatedly pestered Mr Craven’s daughter to go out with him. At the time, the two families lived near each other. The murder remains unsolved. ROSEMARY STEAD: The 18-yearold shop assistant was followed down the side of a field in Queensbury, Bradford, in January 1976. She was hit from behind and suffered serious head injuries. Her attacker resembled Sutcliffe.