This morning, Yorkshire ripper Peter Sutcliffe ,one of the most prominent serial killers in British history, died in jail ,on Friday, aged 74, after refusing to receive treatment for coronavirus.
Sutcliffe was serving his life sentence, when he died in North Durham University Hospital after becoming a victim of Coronavirus pandemic.
Sutcliffe refused to receive treatment after contracting the Coronavirus, two weeks after he had a heart attack. He also had several health problems, including diabetes and heart disease.
He became famous at the end of the seventies when he terrified Britain, after carrying out a series of murders, which claimed the lives of 13 women in northern England, while 9 others were injured, between 1975 and 1980.
The "Yorkshire Ripper" confessed to cops after his eventual arrest, claiming that he was a “beast" driven on "by a devil" inside him.
Sources described the ripper’s final moments, "No tears were shed. His death was as pitiful as the vile life he had lived."
One of the victims’ son expressed his immense happiness as he thanked the disease for snatching the life of that monster.
"Good riddance. Who’d have thought that coronavirus could produce at least one happy ending?” he told The Sun.
"I'm surprised how I feel this morning,” Richard McCann, the son of Sutcliffe's first recognized victim, Wilma McCann, told BBC Breakfast. “It brings me some degree of closure, not that I wished him dead, far from it.”
"Every time we hear a news story about him, and my mum's photo is often shown, it's just another reminder of what he did,” McCann added. "One positive to come from this is that we'll hear much less about him and no more reminders about what happened all those years ago."
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