the Yorkshire Ripper
/ðə ˌjɔːkʃə ˈrɪpə(r)/
/ðə ˌjɔːrkʃər ˈrɪpər/
- the name given by the press to Peter Sutcliffe, an Englishman who murdered thirteen women and tried to kill several more in the north of England in the 1970s, before he was caught in 1981. The name was meant to suggest that his crimes were similar to those of Jack the Ripper.
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the Yorkshire Ripper