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'''Peter William Sutcliffe''' (2{{nbs}}June 1946 – 13{{nbs}}November 2020), also known as '''Peter Coonan''', was an English [[serial killer]] who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980.<ref name=Cross-1981>{{cite book |last=Cross |first=Roger |title=The Yorkshire Ripper: The in-depth study of a mass killer and his methods |year=1981 |publisher=Harper Collins |place=UK |isbn=978-0-586-05526-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/yorkshireripper00cros}}</ref>{{rp|page=[https://archive.org/details/yorkshireripper00cros/page/144 144]}} He was dubbed in press reports as the '''Yorkshire Ripper''', an allusion to the Victorian serial killer [[Jack the Ripper]]. He was sentenced to twenty concurrent sentences of [[Life imprisonment in England and Wales|life imprisonment]], which were converted to a [[whole life order]] in 2010. Two of Sutcliffe's murders took place in [[Manchester]]; all the others were in [[West Yorkshire]]. [[Criminal psychologist]]
Sutcliffe initially attacked women and girls in residential areas, but appears to have shifted his focus to [[red-light district]]s because he was attracted by the vulnerability of prostitutes and the perceived ambivalent attitude of police to prostitutes' safety.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=The Yorkshire Ripper files: A very British crime story |publisher=BBC TV |medium=TV documentary}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Yorkshire Ripper files: Why Chapeltown in Leeds was the 'hunting ground' of Peter Sutcliffe |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/the-yorkshire-ripper-files-why-chapeltown-in-leeds-was-the-hunting-ground-of-peter-sutcliffe-1-9673863 |newspaper=[[The Yorkshire Post]] |date=27 March 2019 |access-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> After his arrest in [[Sheffield]] by [[South Yorkshire Police]] for driving with false number plates in January 1981, he was transferred to the custody of [[West Yorkshire Police]], who questioned him about the killings. Sutcliffe confessed to being the perpetrator, saying that the [[voice of God]] had sent him on a mission to kill prostitutes. At his trial he pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of [[diminished responsibility]], but he was convicted of murder on a majority verdict. Following his conviction, Sutcliffe began using his mother's maiden name of Coonan.
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