Yorkshire Ripper to be booted out of Broadmoor and moved to tough prison after doctors rule he is NOT insane
Mental health tribunal says the serial killer, who murdered 13 women between 1975 and 1980, is fit to return to jail after costing taxpayers £11million
THE Yorkshire Ripper is being booted out of Broadmoor and back into jail after docs ruled he was “bad not mad”.
A mental health tribunal today told Peter Sutcliffe, 70, that his 32 years inside the psychiatric hospital — costing taxpayers £11 million — were sufficient.
Pampered Sutcliffe, who murdered 13 women and tried to kill seven more, will move to a tough category A jail within weeks.
The panel, which met last month, must have concluded his paranoid schizophrenia was successfully treated and he no longer needed specialist care.
But because he is on a “whole life tariff” he will never be released and must die behind bars.
Sutcliffe — who now calls himself Peter Coonan after his mother’s maiden name — was given 20 life terms in 1981 for 13 murders and seven attempted murders.
He served three years in top-security Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight before being sent to Broadmoor in Berkshire in March 1984.
One likely venue is Durham’s Frankland jail, which already holds Soham monster Ian Huntley.
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Another is Woodhill prison, near Milton Keynes, where child killer Jon Venables was once kept.
Wherever Sutcliffe is sent he is certain to be a top target for other cons looking for a prize “scalp”.
Treatment there costs around £325,000 a year, dwarfing the £45,000 for a category A prisoner.
His 32-year stay has therefore cost taxpayers £10.4 million — with legal appeals another £500,000.
We revealed last year how he was put on suicide watch after learning he faced a move back to jail, sparking a visit from ex-wife Sonia, 65.
The decision on where exactly he will go has yet to be made but it is unlikely to be in Yorkshire.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “Decisions over whether prisoners are to be sent back to prison from secure hospitals are based on clinical assessments made by independent medical staff.
“The High Court ordered in 2010 that Peter Coonan should never be released.
"This was upheld by the Court of Appeal.
"Our thoughts are with Coonan’s victims and their families.”
Sutcliffe was convicted at the Old Bailey in 1981.
He told the court voices from God had made him murder 13 women and attempt to murder seven more across Yorkshire and Gtr Manchester between 1975 and 1980.
In March 1984 he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and moved to Broadmoor.
For nine years, he refused any treatment but in 1993 the Mental Health Commission ordered he should be forcibly treated.
During his time at Broadmoor he has been attacked three times, including a 1997 assault where he lost his right eye.
In 2010, Sutcliffe went to the Court of Appeal in a bid to overturn his whole life tariff but lost.
Two years later, the monster was convinced he was set to move to a medium-secure unit, but the switch was blocked by his psychiatrists.
In October last year, The Sun published the first photo of Sutcliffe in public since his 1981 trial.
It was taken as he visited nearby Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey for £5,000 of eye treatment.
A month later, doctors then warned him they felt treatment had worked and his case was likely to be reviewed.
The murderer has since spent months on suicide watch, nervously waiting for the tribunal hearing.
Earlier this year it emerged cops had launched a cold case review into his links to 13 unsolved killings and violent assaults dating back more than 40 years.
’HE DESERVES IT’
By ROBIN PERRIE
A SON of the Ripper’s second murder victim last night welcomed the news of his forthcoming transfer — and said it should have happened years ago.
Roofer Neil Jackson, 58, whose mum Emily, 42, was killed in 1976 in Leeds, said: “I’m glad he is finally losing his cushy lifestyle but it’s not a moment too soon.
“He gets better fed in Broadmoor than I do and I work six days a week.
“Life has been far too easy for him up to now but he is in for a rude awakening.
“Category A prisons are tough places and there will be no end of people lining up to finally deliver the ultimate justice that the evil monster deserves.”
Neil went on: “I can’t believe for one moment they would dare send him to Wakefield.
“But if they did he would only last two minutes so I guess that would be a blessing.”
'I'LL KILL MYSELF' Whining Yorkshire Ripper worried he'll lose his cushy perks after being sent back to prison and warns he'll commit suicide
WHINING Peter Sutcliffe has told pals he is terrified of losing his cushy perks after being sent back to prison, warning them: “I’ll kill myself.”
For 30 years he has had his own room in high-security Broadmoor’s Sandhurst ward, a specialist rehabilitation unit.
The serial killer, sent to prison when he was first convicted, has enjoyed a stack of perks but within weeks he will be forced to earn “privileges” such as a £1-a-week TV just like any other con.
Sutcliffe, 70, bleated to a pal: “If they send me back to prison, I’d have no reason to live.
“I feel like I’ve lost all hope.
“Category A prisons are a pit of black despair and hopelessness.
“I’ll spend the rest of my days there.
“Why should I carry on?
“There is a higher risk of attack in prison but the people in charge don’t give a damn.
“It’s all violence, weapons and drugs.
“It will be so depressing."
My mental health would suffer, I don't belong in jail
Sutcliffe will see his life of luxury quickly brought to an end.
He has a TV and DVD player, complete with Freeview, and a desk to reply to the 30 weekly letters he gets from warped fans.
He has been able to receive emails and even download music to an MP3 player and gets four face-to-face visits each week.
He has also been able to associate with evil pals, like Robert Napper who killed Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in South West London in 1992.
But Sutcliffe will lose access to the internet and email and his freedom to mix will be slashed.
He added: “You can’t write as many letters as in Broadmoor.
“It will be a disaster for me.
“You don’t get any mental health help.
“It’s a shambles, the staff have no control.”
Sutcliffe, whose weight ballooned to 19st in Broadmoor, is most worried about prison grub.
He said: “I couldn’t eat half the food in prison.
“I lost weight when I first got sent to prison.
“Everything’s terrible about prison.
“It makes me angry they are sending me there because I’ve got all these things wrong with me.
“I’ve got loads of illnesses and I’m going blind.”
Sutcliffe has diabetes, suffered a heart attack in 2013 and had an angina attack on his way to a Bible class last year.
The Jehovah’s Witness also moaned: “I can keep in touch with my friends while I am here but that wouldn’t be the same.
“I couldn’t afford to do that in prison.
“That helps to keep my head above water but I would lose that.
“My mental health would suffer.
“I belong in hospital not prison.”
When his move back to prison was first mooted, Sutcliffe convinced himself he would be heading to HMP Wakefield.
In West Yorkshire he would be closer to his family but a move back to the area he terrorised is unlikely to be sanctioned.
Sutcliffe is more likely to be transferred to Britain’s biggest top security nick, HMP Frankland in Co Durham, where Soham killer Ian Huntley has been for years.
In 2010 Huntley had his neck slashed by armed robber Damien Fowkes, 36, who asked an officer: “Is he dead?
“I hope so.”
In 2011 inmates Nathan Mann, 34, and Michael Parr, 25, got life for luring child rapist Mitchell Harrison, 23, into a cell and disembowelling him.
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Sutcliffe would be under 24-hour suicide watch and his cell would be stripped so nothing could be torn apart to harm himself.
Breakfast is a pack of cereal given out the night before.
Lunch is at noon and consists of a sandwich and crisps, and dinner, a choice of hot meals, is at 5pm.
The beast’s transfer still has to be rubber-stamped by new Justice Secretary Liz Truss.
And because of the appalling scale of Sutcliffe’s crimes, Prime Minister Theresa May will also
certainly be briefed.
Last October then Justice Secretary Michael Gove blocked M25 killer Kenneth Noye’s bid to move to a cushy open prison.
But a source told The Sun: “It would be extraordinary if this finding were overturned.
“The Prison Service is more than used to dealing with high risk, whole-life tariff prisoners and Sutcliffe will be treated no differently.”
Sutcliffe was given 20 life sentences at the Old Bailey in 1981.
He told the court voices from God had made him murder 13 women and attempt to murder seven more across Yorkshire and Gtr Manchester between 1975 and 1980.
His last spell in prison came at Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight, where he was often attacked.
In March 1984 he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and moved to Broadmoor.
For nine years, he refused any treatment but in 1993 the Mental Health Commission ordered he should be forcibly treated.
During his time at Broadmoor he has been attacked three times, including a 1997 assault where he lost his right eye.
In 2010, Sutcliffe went to the Court of Appeal in a bid to overturn his whole life tariff but lost.
Two years later, the monster was convinced he was set to move to a medium-secure unit, but the switch was blocked by his psychiatrists.
In October last year, The Sun published the first photo of Sutcliffe in public since his 1981 trial.
It was taken as he visited nearby Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey for £5,000 of eye treatment.
A month later, doctors then warned him they felt treatment had worked and his case was likely to be reviewed.
The murderer has since spent months on suicide watch, nervously waiting for the tribunal hearing.
Earlier this year it emerged cops had launched a cold case review into his links to 13 unsolved killings and violent assaults dating back more than 40 years.
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