Andy-Hughes: Get your facts straight; Peter Suttcliffe was NOT considered to have 'psychiatric problems' the jury & the judge found him to be wicked, cruel sadistic b strd (my words)
Quote: The serial killer had told psychiatrists he heard voices telling him to kill, and that it was God’s will.
For that reason, the prosecution said they would accept his not guilty pleas to murder, but admission of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
But the judge disagreed, explaining that those medics had formed their views on the basis of what Sutcliffe had told them, and it differed from what he had told police after he was arrested and interviewed.
The judge was sure it was a matter for the jury to decide, and after some days adjournment, the attorney-general had to then prove the case that Sutcliffe did indeed know precisely what he was doing when he attacked and mutilated his victims.
After a 15-day trial the jury took almost six hours to reach their verdicts.
Mr Justice Boreham told the killer: “Peter William Sutcliffe, the jury have found you guilty of 13 charges of murder and, if I may say so, murder of a very cowardly quality.
“It is difficult to find words that are adequate in my judgment to describe the brutality and the gravity of these offences and I say at once I am not going to pause to seek those words.
“I am prepared to let the catalogue of your crimes speak for itself.”
He sentenced him to life with a minimum term of 30 years, and expressed the hope that Sutcliffe would never be released. unquote