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Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said there were "no circumstances" in which Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe would be released from prison. | Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said there were "no circumstances" in which Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe would be released from prison. |
He was answering a question in the Commons from Tory MP Julie Kirkbride on behalf of one of her constituents who was one of Sutcliffe's victims. | He was answering a question in the Commons from Tory MP Julie Kirkbride on behalf of one of her constituents who was one of Sutcliffe's victims. |
He said that based on the evidence he had seen "there are no circumstances in which this man will be released". | He said that based on the evidence he had seen "there are no circumstances in which this man will be released". |
Sutcliffe, 63, has begun a legal process to limit his time in jail. | Sutcliffe, 63, has begun a legal process to limit his time in jail. |
Paranoid schizophrenia | |
He was given 20 life terms in 1981 for murdering 13 women and attacking seven others in Yorkshire and Lancashire. | |
Sutcliffe, who is now known as Peter Coonan, is being held in Broadmoor top security psychiatric hospital. | |
He was transferred there from prison in 1984 after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. | |
Mr Straw said: "I would like to provide that reassurance... ultimately that decision would be a matter for the parole board and the courts and maybe for mental health tribunals. | |
"But I say to you, and through you to your constituent, that all the evidence that I have seen on this case, and it's a great deal, suggests to me that there are no circumstances in which this man will be released." |