Yorkshire Ripper not mad – brother

THE Yorkshire Ripper has faked madness for decades to avoid being sent to a tough maximum security jail, his brother insisted. He spoke out on Tuesday night after it emerged serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, 69, is to be moved from Broadmoor psychiatric hospital to prison as his treatment for paranoid schizophrenia is finished. Younger brother Carl Sutcliffe, 50, said: “I’ve never believed Peter was mad. He never showed signs of schizophrenia as a child. “I know he’s been trying to get out of Broadmoor for a while. He’s fed up with it, even though it’s fairly cushy.”

He claimed that when the killer was arrested he had planned to “make out he was mad and then he’d get an easy ride”. “He’s wicked. I don’t care if he’s in prison or in Broadmoor, as long as they never let him out.” On Tuesday, there were fears Sutcliffe, who has already squandered hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money on legal bids for freedom, could challenge any ruling in court. This would cost more and put bereaved families and survivors through fresh agony. Sutcliffe got 20 life terms in 1981 for murdering 13 women and trying to kill seven more in Yorkshire and Manchester.