Savile, Sutcliffe and the Yorkshire Ripper(s)

This was a billboard poster - with retrospect, I can't imagine how WYMP took over half a decade of such tactics to NOT track down the Yorkshire Ripper(s).

Clearly, they were doing everything in their power that whole time...

Programmed To Kill Satanic Cover-Up Part 71 (Peter Sutcliffe - The Yorkshire Ripper ) from Spike1138 on Vimeo.

Ah, the Daily Express..... Richard Desmond is indeed barking mad and almost totally devoid of any journalistic standards of ethics.....

But he has no fear of libel law or writ neither and apparently, he clearly hates pædos and apparently, he isn't a Freemason.

And on the strength of this, he also has some exceptionally brave and courageous journalists who are prepared to write for his papers.

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The disgraced DJ, who died in 2011, had his details taken during the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, but police confirm there is no evidence to suggest he was ever a murder suspect.

Questions were raised about Savile's relationship with the Ripper investigation last year when a retired senior officer claimed he was a suspect in the case more than 30 years ago.

A report published today into West Yorkshire Police's relationship with Savile said: "Searches of the paperwork relating to the investigation have identified four index cards relating to Savile.

[Police index cards] contain scant information and do not indicate whether Savile was a 'person of interest' to the enquiry team.

Report into Jimmy Savile's relationship to the Yorkshire Ripper investigation

"One card does make reference to Savile offering his services as an intermediary for the police, should the 'Ripper' wish to make contact."

"They contain scant information and do not indicate whether Savile was a 'person of interest' to the enquiry team.

"The information held was his name, date of birth, home address and various reference numbers.

"It was not possible to establish the relevance of the reference numbers as a large proportion of the investigation paperwork had been destroyed in the 1980s."

The report was launched after West Yorkshire Police detective John Stainthorpe said police approached the Leeds-born presenter after an anonymous tip-off.

Mr Stainthorpe, who spent 40 years in the force, told ITV's Calendar News: "When the Ripper was really active, one of the suspects put forward by the public was, in fact, Jimmy Savile.

"Obviously, it was not he, but he was interviewed along with many others."

Investigators working on the report, which was published today, spoke to a retired senior officer who worked on the investigation.

He remembered the entertainer's name being mentioned during a meeting with fellow senior officers, but the report said: "He was unable to provide any more detail as to why he was mentioned and what links if any Savile had to the Ripper enquiry.

"The enquiry team spoke to several other officers who were part of the Ripper enquiry team, including those officers that worked on the Leeds side of the investigation and they had no knowledge of Savile being part of that enquiry."

Peter Sutcliffe, pictured here on in his wedding day in 1974, was convicted of 13 murders in 1981

Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of the Yorkshire Ripper killings in 1981, and was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 13 woman between 1975 and 1980.

When Savile was linked to the investigation in November last year, Sutcliffe jumped to his defence.

He said: "People are just getting carried away. He visited a lot. He’d always come and chat with me on visits and I would introduce him to my visitors.

"Several times he left £500 for charities I was supporting."

Sutcliffe is held at Broadmoor and has been told he will never be freed.