The Yorkshire ripper is dead
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Just confirmed https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1359632/peter-su...
I don't think many tears will be shed.
I don't think many tears will be shed.
AngryYorkshireman said:
Evil b@stard.
Still remember the time when he was on the rampage. It was a dark time where we lived.
Was too young to understand what was going on was at infant school. All the mothers were terrified. Then random dads being pulled in by the police for questioning.
We lived in Bradford and my mum worked at St Lukes, where 2 victims were found closeby. I recall it being a virtual curfew for women. The nurses had to be chaperoned from block to block, and to the car park (which was helpfully overgrown and screened behind trees). Still remember the time when he was on the rampage. It was a dark time where we lived.
Was too young to understand what was going on was at infant school. All the mothers were terrified. Then random dads being pulled in by the police for questioning.
If a woman wanted to go out, she went with a man, in the car. This went on for years. Looking back it was like a horror movie - people knew there was something out there and it frightened the s
t out of them.He knew what he was doing alright. It was a time when there was real poverty in these towns, and leaving your kids at home to go on the game to pay the rent was a reality for some women. Sadly, the media and police treated them shabbily - even now, the photos of these women are their police mughots that dehumanise them - splitting them into the good and bad victims.
AngryYorkshireman said:
Evil b@stard.
Still remember the time when he was on the rampage. It was a dark time where we lived.
Was too young to understand what was going on was at infant school. All the mothers were terrified. Then random dads being pulled in by the police for questioning.
You had the bloke who sent in a fake confession tape to the police, claiming to be the ripper himself. Still remember the time when he was on the rampage. It was a dark time where we lived.
Was too young to understand what was going on was at infant school. All the mothers were terrified. Then random dads being pulled in by the police for questioning.
Why did he do it? God knows.
whitesocks said:
AngryYorkshireman said:
Evil b@stard.
Still remember the time when he was on the rampage. It was a dark time where we lived.
Was too young to understand what was going on was at infant school. All the mothers were terrified. Then random dads being pulled in by the police for questioning.
You had the bloke who sent in a fake confession tape to the police, claiming to be the ripper himself. Still remember the time when he was on the rampage. It was a dark time where we lived.
Was too young to understand what was going on was at infant school. All the mothers were terrified. Then random dads being pulled in by the police for questioning.
Why did he do it? God knows.
AngryYorkshireman said:
Evil b@stard.
Still remember the time when he was on the rampage. It was a dark time where we lived.
Was too young to understand what was going on was at infant school. All the mothers were terrified. Then random dads being pulled in by the police for questioning.
I remember driving through Yorkshire (1978) and seeing walls daubed with "HANG THE RIPPER" Still remember the time when he was on the rampage. It was a dark time where we lived.
Was too young to understand what was going on was at infant school. All the mothers were terrified. Then random dads being pulled in by the police for questioning.
Castrol for a knave said:
Sadly, the media and police treated them shabbily - even now, the photos of these women are their police mughots that dehumanise them - splitting them into the good and bad victims.
They've just been discussing this on 5Live's Your Call. A woman on there, didn't catch who she was, said George Oldfield (police guy?) only really took things more seriously when a woman was killed who wasn't a prostitute and the media then went way over the top, treating the latest victim completely different to the ones that had died before.Shocking looking back through 2020 eyes as to how bad the police and media were back then. Some would argue little has changed but I can't see anything that blatant happening now, however bad they can be at times.
Castrol for a knave said:
He knew what he was doing alright. It was a time when there was real poverty in these towns, and leaving your kids at home to go on the game to pay the rent was a reality for some women. Sadly, the media and police treated them shabbily - even now, the photos of these women are their police mughots that dehumanise them - splitting them into the good and bad victims.
I think the police didn't take it too seriously until he started on the "good victims"It was a period of rapid de-industrialisation and massive unemployment and poverty (especially in the north). Like you say, some of the women were "worthless" in the eyes of the police, but were mainly just women trying to feed their kids.
To be fair to the police they pulled all the stops out eventually. Remember no computers in those times, all paper.
Edited by AngryYorkshireman on Friday 13th November 09:51
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