Yorkshire Ripper: Emily Jackson's family furious as serial killer Peter Sutcliffe gets his DYING WISH

Sutcliffe was found guilty of killing 13 women and attempting to murder 7 others between 1975 and 1980

UPDATED AUG 29, 2022

Portrait of British serial killer Peter Sutcliffe on his wedding day, August 10, 1974 (Express Newspapers/Getty Images)

LANZAROTE, SPAIN: The dying wish of infamous serial killer Peter Sutcliffe has been fulfilled after a female friend, who visited him in prison, reportedly scattered Sutcliffe’s ashes in the sea in Lanzarote. Neil Jackson, a 64-year-old retired roofer and the son of Emily Jackson, who was Sutcliffe’s second murder victim in 1976, said, "It is shocking and disgusting that someone would want to carry out that monster’s dying wishes. His remains should have been chucked down a drain or sent to the local council tip."

Known as the Yorkshire Ripper, Sutcliffe killed 13 women before dying of Covid at 74 in November 2020. According to The Sun, the friend, who wants to stay anonymous, said, “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. He wanted to be in a better and happier place." The women further added, "It was a nice moment and, at the end, I was engulfed by a wave which I felt like was Peter acknowledging it." As per the report, the woman travelled to the Canary Islands to carry out the ritual near Playa de los Pocillos, which is popular with British tourists.

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Six of the young women murdered by Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper. Top left to right; Vera Millward, Jayne MacDonald, Josephine Whittaker and bottom left to right; Jean Royle, Helga Rytka and Barbara Leach. — Six of the young women murdered by Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper: Vera Millward, Jayne MacDonald, Josephine Whittaker, Jean Royle, Helga Rytka and Barbara Leac (Keystone/Getty Images)

Sutcliffe, a former lorry driver from Bradford, was found guilty of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. On May 22, 1981, he was sentenced to 20 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment, which was then converted to a whole-life term in the year 2010, as per RadioTimes.

As per the outlet, after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Sutcliffe was transferred from prison to Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security psychiatric hospital, in March 1984. He spent three decades there before being moved to HMP Frankland in County Durham in 2016. On November 3, 2020, Sutcliffe died from Covid-19 in hospital while in custody.