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Neighbours of Peter Sutcliffe on his arrest (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with David and Barbara Bowman, neighbours of Peter Sutcliffe, after Sutcliffe’s arrest. Mr Bowman says he thought Sutcliffe had a Bradford accent, unlike that of the man on the widely-publicised...
Peter Sutcliffe trial - press contempt of court (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Solicitor James McGovern(?) on contempt of court and the problems posed by press reporting of the arrest and trial of Peter Sutcliffe, suspected of being the so-called Yorkshire Ripper. Interview followed by...
Robert Ring and Robert Hydes on arresting Peter Sutcliffe (1981)
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- Interview
Sergeant Robert Ring and PC Robert Hydes of South Yorkshire Police describe how they came to arrest Peter Sutcliffe in Sheffield. Sutcliffe was arrested and taken to Hammerton Road police station before...
William Clark on his former employee, Peter Sutcliffe (1981)
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- Interview; News report
Report on Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe’s employer, Clark’s Haulage Company, based in Shipley. Includes excerpt of interview with managing director William Clark, who says Sutcliffe was a reliable...
Prostitute on Peter Sutcliffe following his arrest (1981)
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- Interview
Following the arrest of Peter Sutcliffe, an unnamed female prostitute tells how she was approached by Sutcliffe in Sheffield on the evening he was arrested and later ended up sharing a room with him in the...
James Hobson on Yorkshire Ripper investigation (1981)
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- Interview
Detective Chief Superintendent James Hobson of West Yorkshire Police says the Yorkshire Ripper investigation was the largest murder inquiry conducted in the history of the British police. Male interviewer...
Attack survivor on Peter Sutcliffe arrest (1981)
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- Interview
An unidentified female survivor of an attack by Peter Sutcliffe (poss. Olive Smelt) says she cannot remember what happened between speaking to her attacker and waking up in Halifax Infirmary but says her...
William Clark on arrest of employee Peter Sutcliffe (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Peter Sutcliffe’s employer, William Clark of Clark’s Haulage Company, is interviewed following Sutcliffe’s arrest. He says everyone in the company had been interviewed 18 months previously after a...
Stanley Ellis and Jack Windsor Lewis on Yorkshire Ripper hoax tapes (1981)
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- Interview
Stanley Ellis, Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Leeds, and Jack Windsor Lewis, of the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Leeds, talk about their involvement...
Yorkshire Ripper case - prostitute on her work (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
An unidentified female prostitute, working in the Leeds area, says she has begun working alongside another girl and is moving from town to town to find work. In the context of attacks by the so-called...