09/03/03 - RIPPER 'BAD NOT
MAD'
Sky News
The Government has come under pressure to move the Yorkshire
Ripper out of Broadmoor high-security hospital and into
a prison because of claims he is not insane - and may
have murdered men as well as women.
A Labour MP said there was evidence Peter Sutcliffe -
jailed for life after being convicted of murdering 13
women - fooled psychiatrists into believing he was mad.
And if he is "bad rather than mad", he must
be treated like any other prisoner and moved from Broadmoor,
Fabian Hamilton MP said in a letter to Home Secretary
David Blunkett.
Mr Hamilton said new evidence had emerged in a book about
the police investigation that Sutcliffe hoodwinked psychiatrists
before his trial. And evidence that Sutcliffe might have
killed men as well as women is said to undermine the diagnosis
of insanity.
Mr Hamilton said fresh evidence suggests Sutcliffe attacked
and might have murdered a number of men in Yorkshire in
the 1960s, before what is known as the Ripper killings
took place.
Mr Hamilton, who represents the constituency in Leeds
where the Ripper's last victim was murdered, suggested
this proves that Sutcliffe's claim to have been directed
by voices was false. |
