1980s news clips - Yorkshire Ripper arrest

Title

1980s news clips - Yorkshire Ripper arrest

Genre

Press conference

TX Date

Jan 1981

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:00:30

Description

Press statement by Ronald Gregory, Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, on the arrest of a man in connection with the Yorkshire Ripper murders (04/01/81). Includes recording of an angry crowd. The man was later identified as Peter Sutcliffe. From a series of news clips from the 1980s used in a retrospective compilation at the end of the decade.

Contributors

Ronald Gregory

Keywords

Yorkshire; Women; Homicide; Murderers; Yorkshire Ripper; Peter Sutcliffe; Leeds; Arrests

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