Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe in hospital after suspected heart attack, say reports

The Yorkshire Ripper is in hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack, according to newspaper reports.

Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe feared he might contract coronavirus in prison before he was rushed to the Accident and Emergency department, The Sun reported.

The 74-year-old is being treated at the University Hospital of North Durham, which is near the maximum-security Frankland Prison.

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The news comes 45 years to the day since his first murder, of Wilma McCann, from Scott Hall in Leeds.

The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is reportedly in hospital after suffering a heart attackThe Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is reportedly in hospital after suffering a heart attack
The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is reportedly in hospital after suffering a heart attack

According to the newspaper, he has been handcuffed to a bed in a private room and is being treated in a cardiology ward away from other patients.

The Ripper, who is serving life for the murder of 13 women across Yorkshire and the North West between 1975 and 1980, has struggled to breathe in the last week and has slept badly, the report said.

He was taken to hospital on Wednesday evening.

Sutcliffe was jailed for life in 1981 and, after a long spell in Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire, he was transferred to HMP Frankland in 2016 after being deemed stable enough to serve time in prison.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “We don’t comment on individual prisoners.”