28/01/98 - I wanted to kill
Ripper, says patient
Michael Fleet
The Daily Telegraph
A MURDERER who stabbed the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe,
in the eyes with a pen said afterwards that he had wanted
to kill him, a court was told yesterday.
Ian Kay, who became known as the Woolworths killer after
stabbing a shop assistant to death, attacked Sutcliffe
at Broadmoor Hospital within days of being put on the
same ward.
He left Sutcliffe blind in one eye but said later that
one of his plans had been to slit Sutcliffe's throat
with a razor embedded in a toothbrush. Kay added in
a police interview: "He killed 13 women and deserves
what happened to him."
It is thought that Kay, 30, launched the attack because
he wanted to become notorious among other patients and
be respected and feared.
He pleaded guilty at Reading Crown Court to attempting
to murder Sutcliffe in March last year and was ordered
to continue to be detained at Broadmoor.
After the attack, Kay was seen covered in blood and
was restrained by several nurses. Other staff went to
Sutcliffe's room and he cried: "I can't see, I
think I'm blind."
The court was told that Sutcliffe had maintained limited
sight in his right eye, but was blind in his left.
Kay told police: "Killing has always been in my mind.
I should have strangled him with my bare hands."
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