Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, 72, ‘is taken to hospital amid rumours over the serial killer’s failing health’
- Serial killer is serving 20 life sentences inside HMP Frankland in County Durham
- He was reportedly rushed to Sunderland Royal Hospital late on Sunday evening
- Patients at the hospital claim to have seen Sutcliffe surrounded by prison guards
Alexander Robertson For Mailonline
Peter Sutcliffe (pictured) has been rushed to hospital amid rumours over his ill health
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has been rushed to hospital amid rumours over his ill health, it has been claimed.
The 72-year-old serial killer, who is serving 20 life sentences at HMP Frankland, was reportedly taken to Sunderland Royal Hospital late on Sunday evening.
Other patients at the hospital in County Durham claim to have seen Sutcliffe surrounded by prison officers while waiting at one of the wards.
His health has been deteriorating for years, with reports earlier this year that he is completely blind due to damage to his eyesight caused by diabetes.
After losing the sight in his left eye when another inmate attacked in him in 1997, an attempt to improve vision in his right eye this year left him without vision in either.
Sutcliffe murdered 13 women in the UK and attempted to murder seven others.
The former Bradford lorry driver attacked and murdered women between 1976 and 1981 using knives, hammers and screwdrivers.
Most of his victims were women working as prostitutes.
But last year he confessed on tape to a savage attack on a 14-year-old schoolgirl because he wrongly thought she was a prostitute.
Police officers are pictured at the scene of the murder of Yorkshire Ripper victim Irene Richardson in 1977
The first murder victim of Sutcliffe was Wilma McCann (left) in 1975, followed by the stabbing to death of Emily Jackson (right) in 1976
Sutcliffe admitted hitting Tracy Browne with a branch before throwing her over a wall.
Despite having suffered two fractures to her skull Tracy managed to stagger to a farmworker’s caravan and he raised the alarm.
Sutcliffe confessed to being the Yorkshire Ripper in 1981 after police apprehended him with a prostitute.
He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia following his life sentence but was moved to Frankland Prison in Durham from Broadmoor psychiatric hospital last year after a ruling that he was sane enough to be transferred.
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