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A friend of the serial killer brought his urn to the Canary Island two years after he died of Covid
A long-time friend of the Yorkshire Ripper has flown to the Canary Island of Lanzarote this week to scatter the serial killer’s ashes off the Atlantic coast, fulfilling his dying wish.
The Ripper, whose real name was Peter Sutcliffe, died of Covid in November 2020 at the age of 74. During his infamous rampage, Sutcliffe murdered 13 women and attempted to kill another seven before he was eventually captured in January 1981 and sentenced to life in prison.
The friend, who had been visiting the Ripper for years while he was incarcerated, said that she had made a promise to scatter his remains somewhere “warm,” and the ashes were laid to rest in a rocky cove popular with British tourists near Playa de los Pocillos on the southern coast of the island.
His unidentified friend told the press: “I made a promise to Peter to scatter his ashes somewhere nice and sunny while I was on my travels.
"I know people will think it is appalling, but as far as I'm concerned I was carrying out the wishes of a dying old man… It was a nice moment and, at the end, I was engulfed by a wave which I felt like was Peter acknowledging it.”
Not everyone is impressed with the woman’s deathbed gesture, however, and the son of Emily Jackson, who was murdered by the Ripper in 1976, called the memorial “shocking and disgusting.”
“His remains should have been chucked down a drain or sent to the local council tip,” Neil Jackson said.
Peter William Sutcliffe worked as an undertaker in the town of Bingley in Yorkshire and mostly targeted sex workers in Leeds and Bradford during a five-year killing spree between 1975 and 1980.
The chilling story of his murders is told in a four-part documentary on Netflix called “The Ripper.”
Image: Dewsbury Police Station
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