The building is in disrepair BRADFORD, UK. STEP INSIDE the apartment where the Yorkshire Ripper killed his fourth victim Patricia Atkinson and was occ
The building is in disrepair BRADFORD, UK. STEP INSIDE the apartment where the Yorkshire Ripper killed his fourth victim Patricia Atkinson and was occupied by homeless people until it was eventually abandoned after a rescue operation in 2010. Images show the apartment covered in black mold, with vintage posters eroding into the walls and rather callously someone has painted ?DIE? in red paint on the walls. Number Nine Oak Avenue, Bradford, UK was also the scene of notorious serial killer Peter Sutcliffe's fourth murder, 32-year-old mother-of-three Patricia Atkinson. Known as Tina, she had been out in local pubs when Sutcliffe picked her up while kerb-crawling on April 23, 1977. He then went back to her flat and savagely attacked her. Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. On January 2, 1981, Sutcliffe was stopped by the police with 24-year-old prostitute Olivia Reivers in the driveway of Light Trades House on Melbourne Avenue, Broomhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. A police check by probationary constable Robert Hydes revealed that Sutcliffe's car had false number plates; he was arrested and transferred to Dewsbury police station in West Yorkshire. At Dewsbury, Sutcliffe was questioned in relation to the Ripper case as he matched many of the known physical characteristics. The police obtained a search warrant for his home in Heaton and brought his wife in for questioning. When Sutcliffe was stripped at Dewsbury police station he was wearing an inverted V-necked jumper under his trousers. The sleeves had been pulled over his legs and the V-neck exposed his genital area. The fronts of the elbows were padded to protect his knees as, presumably, he knelt over his victims' corpses. The sexual implications of this outfit were considered obvious but it was not known to the public until being published in 2003. After two days of intensive questioning, on the afternoon of January 4, 1981, Sutc
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