Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe finally back in jail after spending 32 years in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital
THE Yorkshire Ripper was back in jail last night for the first time in 32 years.
Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe left Broadmoor psychiatric hospital in a top-secret operation late yesterday.
Only a tiny number of staff and officials knew in advance.
Sutcliffe, 70, was told at the last minute.
The move ends a three-decade spell inside Broadmoor that has cost taxpayers an estimated £11million.
It is thought Sutcliffe — given 20 life terms in 1981 for murdering 13 women and trying to kill seven more — was taken to grim Category A Frankland jail in Durham.
The Sun revealed this month how the killer, now using his mum’s maiden surname Coonan, was ruled fit to return to jail after a tribunal decided his paranoid schizophrenia had been successfully treated.
He last saw the inside of a prison cell at Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, before moving to Broadmoor in 1984.
Because he is one of about 50 “whole life” tariff prisoners in Britain, Sutcliffe will never be released.
The prison move is said to have sent him spiralling into depression.
A source said: “Peter has said he’s contemplating suicide.
“He doesn’t want to be in a Category A jail and says they are places without hope — full of violence and despair.
“He’s anxious about being attacked and has literally been sick with fear.”