On this day - 5 January

Peter Sutcliffe was known in the media as the Yorkshire Ripper and was a serial killer convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder a further 7 women. He claimed God had told him to murder prostitutes which is why he had done it.

On January 5th 1981 Peter Sutcliffe was charged with murder. At his trial, he claimed he was not guilty due to diminished capacity but despite this a jury found him guilty. Sutcliffe was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. While in prison, he experienced multiple attacks from other inmates leading to injury including the loss of vision in his left eye after an assault with a pen. He died in 2020 due to Covid 19 and diabetic complications.