06/03/05 - I've ditched my
love the Ripper
By Simon Wright
Sunday Mirror
YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has been dumped by his
bride-to-be - who cancelled their wedding after pleas
from her worried children.
It has left Sutcliffe, jailed for life in 1984 for
killing 13 women, "in turmoil" because he
convinced himself that marrying Pam Mills would lead
to his release. He has told warders: "I feel betrayed"
and is thought to have had electric shock treatment
for depression.
Grandmother Pam, 54, ended their 15-year romance in
an emotional phone call after her son Darren Platts
and daughter Amanda "persuaded her to see sense".
Darren, 34, said: "Every day we told Mum it would
taint our family forever - she finally told Sutcliffe
she wanted no more to do with him."
Pam, from Leicester, has written the Ripper 3,000 letters
and visited him in Broadmoor since 1990. They got engaged
in December and planned to wed in the chapel there.
A source said: "Sutcliffe's in turmoil. It seems
he has finally realised that he is going to die behind
bars." |
