The Yorkshire Ripper was made to before his eventual death from coronavirus – with several inmates and Broadmoor patients going after him during his incarceration.
From 1975- 1980, serial killer Peter Sutcliffe stabbed and bludgeoned at least 20 women and girls, killing 13 of them.
He wasn't caught until 1981, and began his life sentence at HMP Parkhurst.
Though he was considered sane during his trial, Sutcliffe was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and transferred to Broadmoor Hospital, before moving to HMP Frankland.
During his time inside, he was seriously assaulted several times and suffered a range of injuries.
Here, the Daily Star examines some of the more disturbing attacks.
Glassed with coffee jar
In 1983, career criminal James Costello stabbed Sutcliffe twice in the face with a broken coffee jar at HMP Parkhurst.
The ripper required 30 stitches and an operation to repair muscle damage.
Costello, from Glasgow, was later convicted of wounding with intent at Isle of Wight Crown Court.
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Former journalist Judy Marriott came face to face with the ripper in the courtroom.
She told the Isle of Wight County Press: "You could see the slash on his face.
“There was a sense of menace about him and everyone in the courtroom felt it.”
Strangled with headphones cable
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In 1996, Sutcliffe was targeted in his Broadmoor room by convicted robber Paul Wilson.
He asked to borrow a videotape before attempting to strangle him with a headphones cable.
He was saved after serial killer Kenneth Erskine intervened.
None of them were afterwards charged.
Stabbed and blinded in the eye
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The next year, killer Ian Kay attacked Sutcliffe with a pen at Broadmoor Hospital.
Kay, 30 at the time, pinned Sutcliffe to the floor after asking to borrow an envelope and stabbed him 10 times in both eyes.
He blinded him in one and severely damaged the other during the 15-minute assault.
Kay asked another patient to put on some loud music before he launched the attack, the BBC reported.
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Sutcliffe was found leaning over a sink screaming: “I can’t see. I think I’m blind.”
Kay was originally given a life sentence for murdering 21-year-old John Penfold, a Woolworth’s shop assistant, before being transferred to Broadmoor.
He admitted attempting to murder Sutcliffe and was ordered to be stained in a secure mental hospital without time limit.
Lunged at with knife
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In 2009, Sutcliffe was stabbed in the face by killer Patrick Sureda in another brutal attack at Broadmoor.
The then-43-year-old yelled “I’ll teach you, you bastard, for killing all those women” before getting Sutcliffe in a headlock.
He attempted to blind the ripper and stabbed him just below the right eye with a cutlery knife.
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Nurses and other patients at the hospital then intervened and snatched the knife away from Sureda, who originally was convicted of killing his own mother.
Broadmoor assistant Roy Woodhouse told Reading Crown Court: “He was gripping a metal dinner knife and made four or five cutting motions. I could hear thuds with each contact.”
Sureda was found guilty of wounding with intent and detained further under the Mental Health Act.
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