Its taken three decades but Yorkshire Ripper heading back to jail is an expensive wrong that has been righted
Rip him out
IT’S taken three decades but finally an expensive, historic wrong will be righted.
Thirty-two years after being declared insane and moved to cushy Broadmoor Hospital, vile serial killer Peter Sutcliffe is being packed off to a maximum security prison.
A mental health tribunal has at last said what most knew already.
That the Yorkshire Ripper isn’t mad — he is just an evil murderer who should be spending the rest of his life behind bars.
He’s cost UK taxpayers £325,000 a year — more than £10million in total.
He has enjoyed access to Broadmoor’s celebrated supermarket, attended ceramics and Bible classes — and spent his evenings watching reality television.
Regular cons would give their right arm for Sutcliffe’s cosy set-up.
Sutcliffe has been allowed to live in taxpayer-funded luxury in Broadmoor, costing over six times more than the average prisoner
This despite serving 20 life sentences for butchering 13 women — the youngest, Jayne MacDonald, just 16 when he took her life in 1977.
To some he might look like a bloated 70-year-old who is scarred and blind in one eye after being attacked by fellow cons.
But his terrible legacy will never be forgotten — least of all by the loved ones of his victims whose lives have been irreparably destroyed by his evil crimes.
The judge who turned down his ludicrous 2010 appeal for early release compared Sutcliffe’s murder spree to an act of terrorism.
Yet he’s been allowed to live in taxpayer-funded luxury in Broadmoor, costing over six times more than the average prisoner.
With budgets stretched and hospitals making life-or-death decisions on funding operations, spending a penny on a murdering psychopath like Sutcliffe is outrageous — let alone £10million.
We hope he now receives the barest minimum as he lives out the rest of his miserable life in a proper jail.
No justice
SURELY no one can begrudge Judge Patricia Lynch QC calling a racist thug a “c**t” after he’d thrown the same insult at her?
We certainly can’t.
So it beggars belief that the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office has said it is looking into Judge Lynch’s comments.
The odious John Hennigan, in court for breaking his Asbo for the ninth time after insulting a Caribbean mum and her kids, performed a Nazi salute and twice shouted “Sieg Heil” as well as hurling abuse at the judge.
Judge Lynch should be allowed to give as good as she gets, especially from a man as vile and foul-mouthed as Hennigan.
And if you don’t like our take on it?
You can p**s off.