The Yorkshire Ripper handcuffed to hospital bed after suspected heart attack

The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, has been rushed to hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack.
By Leanne Clarke
Published 30th Oct 2020, 10:14 GMT
Updated 30th Oct 2020, 10:18 GMT
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The 74-year-old serial killer feared he might contract coronavirus in prison before he was rushed to A&E at University Hospital in North Durham, The Sun newspaper reported.

According to reports, Sutcliffe has been handcuffed to a bed in a private room and is being treated away from other patients at the hospital.

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He was convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others.across Yorkshire and the North West between 1975 and 1980.

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The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, has been rushed to hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack.The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, has been rushed to hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack.
The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, has been rushed to hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack.

He is serving 20 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment, which was increased to a whole life order in 2010. After a long spell in Broadmoor Hospital, he was transferred to maximum security prison HMP Frankland in 2016.

He was taken to hospital on Wednesday (October 28).

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