![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/inside-yorkshire-rippers-5-year-killing-spree-his-spine-chilling-motive/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/newspress-collage-23962875-1694734507260.jpg&description=IT was by mutilating his 13 victims with a screwdriver, hammer and knife that Peter Sutcliffe became known as the Yorkshire Ripper. Between 1975 and 1980, his slaughter spree plunged police in the North of England into one of the biggest manhunts of the 20th Century. 6 Sutcliffe believed he was on a 'mission from God' to kill prostitutes who were 'littering the streets' across West Yorkshire 6 It was by mutilating his 13 victims with a screwdriver, hammer and knife that Peter Sutcliffe became known as the Yorkshire Ripper Credit: PA 6 Sutcliffe attends a doctor's appointment at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey in 2015 - he died five years later Credit: Ian Whittaker - The Sun Sutcliffe believed he was on a "mission from God" to kill prostitutes who were "littering the streets" across West Yorkshire. Though not all of his victims were sex workers. Confessing to cops after his eventual arrest, Sutcliffe notoriously claimed he was "a beast" driven on "by a devil" inside him. His spree began October 30 1975 with the murder of 28-year-old Wilma McCann. The mum-of-four had kissed her kids goodnight and headed out for drinks in the Chapeltown area of Leeds before stumbling home. Sutcliffe was driving through in his lime-green Ford Capri GT when he saw Wilma trying to hail a lift, he picked her up and they headed for nearby fields where she offered sex. Sutcliffe instead struck her twice with a hammer before stabbing her 15 times in the neck, chest and abdomen. Wilma's son Richard - whose Eldest sister Sonia killed herself over the nightmare - later said "I absolutely forgive" the killer for his mum's murder. "I used to be angry but not any more. It's not there — I let it go", he added. The Ripper's next murder would be 42-year-old Emily Jackson . Around Christmas 1975, she and husband Syndey agreed she would start doing sex work to ease financial pressures. Just a few weeks later on January 20, 1976, she was outside the Gaiety pub in Roundhay Road, Leeds, with her husban){kind=link}
IT was by mutilating his 13 victims with a screwdriver, hammer and knife that Peter Sutcliffe became known as the Yorkshire Ripper.
Between 1975 and 1980, his slaughter spree plunged police in the North of England into one of the biggest manhunts of the 20th Century.
Sutcliffe believed he was on a “mission from God” to kill prostitutes who were “littering the streets” across West Yorkshire.
Though not all of his victims were sex workers.
Confessing to cops after his eventual arrest, Sutcliffe notoriously claimed he was “a beast” driven on “by a devil” inside him.