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Inside the Mind of the Yorkshire Ripper

The Final Investigation

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Inside the Mind of the Yorkshire Ripper

By: Chris Clark, Tim Hicks
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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The fullest possible account of the crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, including those he was not charged with and has never previously been connected to.

The police believed Sutcliffe was operating only in the Greater Manchester Police, South Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police force areas, using his car. In fact, Sutcliffe was operating nationally and internationally, using his employer’s lorry to commit attacks. Authors Chris Clark and Tim Hicks have meticulously researched Sutcliffe’s crimes and reveal many of his previously unknown victims for the first time.

The police failed to deliver justice for the victims’ families, and the media has failed to hold the police to account for this failure – both in the original investigation and in subsequent cold-case investigations.

The authors hope that by bringing more of the facts of the case into the public domain and by telling the victims’ stories, they can help to bring closure for friends and relatives of victims of the Yorkshire Ripper.

©2023 Chris Clark and Tim Hicks (P)2023 Boldwood Books Murder True Crime Crime England
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Having read Chris Clark’s earlier work on this investigation, I was eager to read what he had to add further with Tim Hicks. The answer was, not a great deal, but that is by no means a disappointment, as this book presents the information in a different and more enlightening format, detailing the catastrophic failings of the West Yorkshire Police. To be fair, it was an extraordinary case, and it was to be managed with the technology that was available to policing in the UK from the 1960s to the1980s. That mitigation aside, this book highlights the devastating consequences of a terribly managed, misogynistic, presumptuous and out of touch hierarchy of officers who made a catalogue of awful assumptions and terrible decisions leaving the hard-working WYP foot soldiers swamped and in utter disarray and the cowardly villain free to terrorise, severely injure and murder innocent people at his leisure. The failings at high level in the investigation would pretty much ensure that the cowardly perpetrator of these crimes would eventually face justice only for a small number of the actual offences that he committed. Great read, great format, frustrating and enduring case.

A stinging comprehensive exposé of a thoroughly flawed criminal investigation.

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