Yorkshire Ripper Police Investigation
Families of yorkshire ripper victims receive police apology for language used during investigation it was only when some so called respectable women got killed that they began to pay attention.
Yorkshire ripper police investigation. The ineffectiveness of the major incident room was a serious handicap to the ripper investigation. The hunt for the yorkshire ripper became the biggest manhunt britain had ever known. The police mistakes that allowed peter sutcliffe to kill three more women.
But despite the 25 million police man hours expended on catching him peter sutcliffe was allowed to continue. The ripper investigation was one of the largest ever undertaken by a british police force and with it pre dating computers there was an avalanche of paperwork and filing systems officers had to sort through. The investigation was derailed by letters and tapes received by police purporting to be from the yorkshire ripper who became known as wearside jack in 1979.
West yorkshire police has offered a heartfelt apology to the surviving victims and families of peter sutcliffe the serial killer known as the yorkshire ripper who has died. He left school at 15 and worked a series of odd jobs. Police investigators not too many policemen would let the ripper get away after what he did.
Peter william sutcliffe who also used the surname coonan was born on june 2 1946 in west yorkshire according to the byford report. With no money or rape the motive is unclear. But these policemen all did just that and covered it up.