The Yorkshire Ripper serial killer Peter Sutcliffe has died in hospital - the Prison Service has confirmed.
The 74-year-old had reportedly refused treatment at University Hospital of North Durham after being transferred there from maximum security HMP Frankland, where he was an inmate.
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Sutcliffe had tested positive for Covid-19 and was suffering from underlying health conditions.
He was serving a whole life term for murdering 13 women across Yorkshire and the North West between 1975 and 1980.
He was convicted in 1981 and, after a long spell in Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire, he was transferred to HMP Frankland in 2016 after being deemed stable enough to serve time in prison.
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What have the Prison Service said?
A Prison Service spokesman said: “HMP Frankland prisoner Peter Coonan (born Sutcliffe) died in hospital on November 13. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has been informed.”
Sutcliffe had reportedly suffered from a range of conditions before his death including heart trouble, diabetes and obesity.
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