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Peter Sutcliffe to serve whole life sentence

Saturday 12 March 2011 at 9:38 am | In News | Post Comment ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ Peter Sutcliffe has failed in his attempt to have his sentence examined by the Supreme Court.

The killer of 13 women has seen his latest attempt to have his “whole life” tariff overturned was rejected by Court of Appeal judges, he will now serve a “whole life” tariff.

Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice said the Court of Appeal had refused to certify that a point of general public importance was involved in the appeal.

Sutcliffe 64, who is now known as Peter Coonan, a former lorry driver, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, was convicted at the Old Bailey in 1981, he received 20 life terms for the murder of 13 women and the attempted murder of seven others.