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<\/p>\nPETER Sutcliffe\u2019s heinous crimes made him one of the most notorious serial killers in the UK.<\/p>\n
Between 1975 and 1980, Sutcliffe,\u00a0dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, murdered 13 women and attacked many more in in a horrifying crime spree.<\/p>\n
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WARNING: The below contains graphic content which some readers may find upsetting.<\/strong><\/p>\n In May, 1981, Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others.<\/p>\n His killing spree lasted from 1975 until 1980 and left many unable to leave their homes for fear of being his next victim.<\/p>\n Sutcliffe was serving 20 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment, which was increased to a whole-life order in 2010.<\/p>\n The serial killer refused to confess to every attack and died in prison aged 74 on November 13, 2020.<\/p>\n Here we take a look at those who survived the Yorkshire Ripper.<\/p>\n After returning home in July 1975 from a night out in Bradford, Anna Rogulskyj, a 34-year-old who had moved to Yorkshire a few years earlier, went to see her boyfriend in the early hours.<\/p>\n Unbeknown to Anna, Peter Sutcliffe was roaming the nearby streets.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n He attacked her from behind, hitting her over the head three times with a hammer before slashing at her abdomen with a knife.<\/p>\n Anna survived thanks to 12 hours of surgery in which a metal plate was fitted to her skull.<\/p>\n She passed away peacefully in 2008, aged 75.<\/p>\n Olive Smelt was a 46-year-old cleaner and mother of three when she was attacked by Sutcliffe following a night out with a friend in Halifax.<\/p>\n As she walked home alone, Sutcliffe passed her and said: \u201cWeather\u2019s letting us down, isn\u2019t it?\u201d before attacking her from behind with a hammer.<\/p>\n Olive suffered two depressed skull fractures but her life was saved.<\/p>\n She passed away in 2011, aged 82.<\/p>\n Tracy Browne was 14 years old when she was assaulted by Sutcliffe as she walked along a country lane in Silsden, Bradford.<\/p>\n She recalls being hit five times and thrown into a ditch.<\/p>\n In 2017, Tracy spoke out after The Sun on Sunday revealed a chilling tape of Sutcliffe confessing to the attack on her.<\/p>\n In the recording, Sutcliffe dismissively tells how he hit Tracy with a branch and heard voices telling him to stop the attack on a cold country lane.<\/p>\n He also claimed he apologised to Tracy after the assault \u2013 and targeted her because he mistook her for a prostitute and was \u201call dressed up\u201d.<\/p>\n Tracy said: \u2018\u2019I remember him throwing me over a fence while this car came down the road and that was it.<\/p>\n \u201cHe certainly didn\u2019t apologise.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s just making it sound less serious than it was and less serious than what he did.<\/p>\n \u201cHe says he thought I was dressed up but I wasn\u2019t. I had a jumper on \u2013 my God.<\/p>\n \u201cFor someone trying to be clever, he\u2019s not being very clever at all.''<\/p>\n Two months after the August 1975 attack on Tracy, Sutcliffe killed his first known murder victim, Wilma McCann in Leeds.<\/p>\n Peter Sutcliffe had already murdered two women and attacked at least four others when he came across Marcella in Leeds in May 1976.<\/p>\n Marcella was making her way home from a party when a driver pulled up and asked if she wanted a lift – oblivious to his murderous intent, she accepted the offer.<\/p>\n It was then in his company that serial killer Sutcliffe hit her over the head with a heavy spanner and left her.<\/p>\n In September 2023, the brave survivor told of how she still suffers crippling, daily headaches and also suffers from blackouts – which have led to falls that landed her in hospital and forced her to quit her job.<\/p>\n Describing the real-life torment that his surviving victims have to endure, Marcella said: \u2018\u2019Peter Sutcliffe ruined my life \u2014 I can never escape what he did to me. I suffer pain every day, exactly where he hit me.<\/p>\n \u201cI have headaches and blackouts, daily reminders of what happened.<\/p>\n \u201cThe pain is really sharp \u2014 it goes all along the top of my head, from the front to the back.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes it feels like my head\u2019s going to burst open. One time it was that bad, I put my head in the freezer.\u201d<\/p>\n Maureen Long was spotted by Sutcliffe as she left a nightclub and was offered a lift home.<\/p>\n As she left the vehicle to urinate, Sutcliffe struck her on the back of the head and stabbed her all over her upper body.<\/p>\n Miraculously, the mother-of-three was discovered alive several hours later by two women walking nearby.<\/p>\n Mo Lea barely escaped with her life when she was attacked in 1980.<\/p>\n It happened as she was walking home in Leeds after meeting with friends at the pub to discuss plans for her upcoming 21st birthday.<\/p>\n She left at about 10pm \u2013 later than she'd planned to stay out \u2013 to walk home alone.<\/p>\n Mo's injuries weren't just bad \u2013 they were so severe that, when her parents came to visit, they walked past the foot of her bed because they didn't recognise her.<\/p>\n "My jaw was broken so my face was really swollen. I had two black eyes and I could hardly speak," Mo said.<\/p>\n "He'd hit me over the head a number of times with a hammer and also pierced underneath my skull with a sharpened screwdriver which just missed my spinal cord by millimetres."<\/p>\n A couple spotted Mo's assailant standing over her unconscious body and ran over to help, scaring him off.<\/p>\n No one was ever convicted of Mo's attack, and when Sutcliffe died in November he took any possibility of a confession to his grave, leaving Mo without justice.<\/p>\n Marylin Moore was 25 years old when she was attacked by Sutcliffe in the back of his car.<\/p>\n She was assaulted on a waste ground in Scott Hall, Leeds before her screams and a barking dog convinced Sutcliffe to flee the scene.<\/p>\n In September 1980, Peter Sutcliffe followed Upadhya Bandara, who was then a 34-year-old doctor from Singapore.<\/p>\n She was hit on the head, rendering her unconscious, before being dragged along the street by a rope.<\/p>\n However, a neighbour investigating the noise called the police, causing Sutcliffe to flee.<\/p>\n On November 5, 1980, Theresa Sykes, then aged 16, had left the house she shared with her boyfriend and six-month-old-baby to go to an off-licence.<\/p>\n On her return, she realised someone was behind her and headed for the safety of the closest house.\u00a0<\/p>\n Before she reached it Sutcliffe hit her with a hammer.<\/p>\n Her boyfriend had been looking out of the window for her return and saw what he thought was a fight between two boys.\u00a0<\/p>\nWho survived the Yorkshire Ripper?<\/h2>\n
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