105-527: Ian David Hislop (born 13 July 1960) is a British journalist, satirist, and television personality. He is the editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye , a position he has held since 1986. He has appeared on many radio and television programmes and has been a team captain on the BBC satirical quiz show Have I Got News for You since its inception in 1990. Hislop has frequently been involved in legal battles, as Private Eye has often been sued for libel over
210-485: A Yorkshire accent , but this information was ignored, as was the fact that neither she nor Rogulskyj were in towns with a red-light area. On 27 August, Sutcliffe targeted 14-year-old Tracy Browne in Silsden , attacking her from behind and hitting her on the head five times while she was walking along a country lane. He ran off when he saw the lights of a passing car, leaving his victim requiring brain surgery. Sutcliffe
315-554: A 25-year-old prostitute, in the back of his car on wasteland in Scott Hall. Sutcliffe lost his balance whilst delivering a blow to Moore with a hammer, allowing Moore to escape with severe head injuries. Tyre tracks found at the scene matched those from an earlier attack. The resulting photofit bore a strong resemblance to Sutcliffe, as had those from other survivors, and Moore provided a good description of Sutcliffe's black Sunbeam Rapier , which had been seen in red-light areas. Sutcliffe
420-514: A Chapeltown prostitute, in Roundhay Park. Richardson was last seen at 11:15 p.m. leaving a rooming house on Cowper Street, saying she was going to Tiffany's, a pub and disco in the centre of Leeds. Richardson was bludgeoned to death with a hammer, and stabbed in the neck and throat and three times in the stomach. Once she was dead, Sutcliffe mutilated her corpse with a knife and then arranged her body by neatly placing her knee-length boots over
525-461: A commonplace pleasantry about the weather before striking hammer blows to her skull from behind. He then disarranged Smelt's clothing and slashed her lower back with a knife. Again Sutcliffe was interrupted and left his victim badly injured but alive. Like Rogulskyj, Smelt subsequently suffered severe emotional and mental trauma. She later told Detective Superintendent Dick Holland that her attacker had
630-433: A driveway. In order to move her twenty yards from the place of the attack up the driveway and into a high-walled garden, Sutcliffe first tied a length of rope around Walls' neck and tightened it. There he suffocated her and removed almost every piece of clothing save for her tights. He partially covered the body with grass and leaves before he left. On 24 September, a 34-year-old doctor from Singapore, Upadhya Bandara,
735-621: A fence and stabbed her repeatedly with a knife. On the evening of 2 March 1979, 22-year-old Irish student Ann Rooney was attacked from behind at Horsforth College in Horsforth . She was struck three times on the head, probably with a hammer, according to Professor David Gee, who examined her at Leeds General Infirmary . Rooney's description of her attacker and his car closely matched that of Sutcliffe and his Sunbeam Rapier, which had been flagged by police numerous times in red-light areas in both Leeds and Bradford. In 1992, Sutcliffe confessed to
840-455: A journalist who had many conversations with Sonia, described her as "the most irritating, strangest and coldest person I've ever met. She's so incredibly prickly and demanding." Sonia had several miscarriages after marrying Sutcliffe, and the couple were informed that she would not be able to have children. Sonia eventually resumed her teacher training course, during which time she had an affair with an ice-cream van driver. When she completed
945-400: A local hotel, taking along Sutcliffe and two of his siblings to witness him expose her infidelity . When Sutcliffe's mother arrived, his father pulled out a negligee from her purse as her children watched. In his late- adolescence , Sutcliffe developed a growing obsession with voyeurism and spent much time spying on prostitutes and their male clients. Reportedly a loner, he left school at
1050-453: A number of other unsolved crimes. Sutcliffe was transferred from prison to Broadmoor Hospital in March 1984 after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia . The High Court dismissed an appeal by Sutcliffe in 2010, confirming that he would serve a whole life order and never be released from custody. In August 2016, it was ruled that Sutcliffe was mentally fit to be returned to prison, and he
1155-479: A packaging line. He left this position when he was asked to go on the road as a salesman. After leaving Baird Television, Sutcliffe worked night shifts at the Britannia Works of Anderton International from April 1973. In February 1975, he took redundancy and used half of the £400 pay-off to train as a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driver. On 5 March 1976, Sutcliffe was dismissed from this employment for
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#17328525431491260-499: A party, Claxton accepted an offer of a lift from Sutcliffe. When she got out of the car to urinate, he hit her from behind with a hammer. Claxton survived and testified against Sutcliffe at his trial. At the time of this attack, Claxton had been four months pregnant and subsequently miscarried her baby. She required multiple, extensive brain operations and suffered from intermittent blackouts and chronic depression . On 5 February, Sutcliffe attacked 28-year-old Irene Richardson,
1365-451: A sheet of asbestos , beneath the railway arches of the timber yard. Sutcliffe said of Rytka while in police custody in 1981: "I had the urge to kill any woman. The urge inside me to kill girls was now practically uncontrollable." Vera Evelyn Millward was a 40-year-old prostitute and mother of seven who left her council flat in Hulme at 10:00 p.m. on 16 May 1978, telling her boyfriend that she
1470-535: A submitted manuscript will be published. This decision is made by the editor-in-chief after seeking input from reviewers selected on the basis of relevant expertise. For larger journals, the decision is often upon the recommendation of one of several associate editors who each have responsibility for a fraction of the submitted manuscripts. Typical responsibilities of editors-in-chief include: Peter Sutcliffe Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan ,
1575-554: A three-part Channel 4 study on the history of British education; an edition of the BBC 's Who Do You Think You Are? , in which he attempted to trace his ancestry, and Not Forgotten , a four-part series on Channel 4 detailing the impact on British society of the First World War . A further programme, Not Forgotten: Shot at Dawn , was broadcast in January 2007, and a sixth episode, Not Forgotten: The Men Who Wouldn't Fight , featuring
1680-460: A vote in which viewers chose the confrontation as the best moment in the programme's history; it won 51% of the votes, double the number for the second-placed entry. In another episode he criticised the premise of capital punishment, something which had been advocated by Conservative panel member Priti Patel , and more recently has discussed Britain's vote to leave the European Union . In 2003 he
1785-464: Is also an Ambassador for The Scout Association ). He has also written and presented factual programmes for Radio 4 about such subjects as tax rebellions, female hymn composers, scouting and patron saints of Britain and Ireland. In 2007 he became the only person to make a second guest appearance on Room 101 . He has also been a screenwriter for comedian Harry Enfield . Hislop has presented several programmes for BBC Four , dealing with topics such as
1890-474: Is the bringing to ridicule of vice, folly and humbug. All the negatives imply a set of positives. Certainly in this country, you only go round saying, 'That's wrong, that's corrupt' if you have some feeling that it should be better than that. People say, 'You satirists attack everything.' Well, we don't, actually. That's the whole point." In April 2017, Hislop won the London Press Club 's print journalist of
1995-494: Is unsure whether to feel relieved at the sense of déjà vu or worried about the possibility of history repeating itself, not as farce, but as tragedy again ". A variety of dahlia , first bred in 2010, is named "Ian Hislop" after him. Editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief ( EIC ), also known as lead editor or chief editor , is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of
2100-462: The 2007–2008 financial crisis , and expressed support for the Liberal Democrats, jocularly stating "I'm standing for them". In a 2009 "Five minutes with" interview with Matthew Stadlen for BBC News , Hislop stated that if he were required, "at the point of a gun", to stand in an election for any British political party, he would stand for the fictional "Vince Cable for Treasurer Party". After
2205-722: The Beeching Axe and the role of the Poet Laureate . The former, Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails , about the Beeching Report and its impact on the British railway network, was first aired on 2 October 2008, and achieved the second-highest audience to date for any BBC Four programme (and the highest for a documentary) with 1.3 million viewers. The latter, Ian Hislop's Changing of the Bard , launched
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#17328525431492310-537: The British Museum , called I Object: Ian Hislop's Search for Dissent, which was presented from 6 September 2018 to 20 January 2019. As the editor of Private Eye , Hislop has received an award for Outstanding Contribution to British Media at the Campaign British Media Awards 2019. Hislop has also been recognised for his broadcasting career, having produced TV and radio documentaries on immigration and
2415-660: The Castletown area of Sunderland , Tyne and Wear . The hoaxer, dubbed " Wearside Jack ", sent two letters to police and the Daily Mirror in March 1978 boasting of his crimes. The letters, signed " Jack the Ripper ", claimed responsibility for the November 1975 murder of 26-year-old Joan Harrison in Preston . The hoaxer case was re-opened in 2005, and DNA taken from envelopes was entered into
2520-745: The Chapeltown area of Leeds, walking past the nearby Prince Philip Playing Fields. Like with the earlier attacks, Sutcliffe approached her from behind and struck the back of her skull twice with a hammer. An extensive inquiry, involving 150 officers of the West Yorkshire Police and 11,000 interviews, failed to identify Sutcliffe. Sutcliffe committed his next murder in Leeds on 20 January 1976, when he stabbed 42-year-old Emily Monica Jackson fifty-two times. In dire financial straits, Jackson had been persuaded by her husband to engage in prostitution, using
2625-525: The FBI in the United States and from dialect analysts Stanley Ellis and Jack Windsor Lewis , that "Wearside Jack" was a hoaxer. Indeed, the investigation had used the hoax tape as a point of elimination, rather than as a line of enquiry, allowing Sutcliffe to avoid scrutiny as he did not fit the profile of the sender of the tape or letters. The hoaxer was given unusual credibility when analysis of saliva on
2730-494: The High Court issued Sutcliffe with a whole life tariff , meaning he was never to be released. After his trial, Sutcliffe admitted to two other attacks although he was not prosecuted for the offences. West Yorkshire Police were criticised for being inadequately prepared for an investigation on this scale. It was one of the largest investigations by a British police force and predated the use of computers. Information on suspects
2835-496: The House of Commons' Standards Committee . Hislop is credited as the author of the recent Private Eye annuals. Hislop's television debut was on the short-lived Channel 4 chat show Loose Talk in 1983, an experience he disliked so much that he included it on his list of most hated items when he first appeared on the BBC show Room 101 . Hislop, usually in partnership with Nick Newman ,
2940-622: The Rothschilds , the Gurneys and the Lloyds , as well as 19th-century philanthropists and reformers such as Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Fry . He has also appeared on Question Time . In one edition he made an open attack on Jeffrey Archer , who had been imprisoned for perjury , when his wife, Mary Archer , was a fellow panellist. She was noticeably angry that the matter had been raised. In 2004, Question Time' s 25th anniversary celebrations included
3045-427: The dirty protest decorating his cell in "fetching brown". Hislop joined the publication immediately after leaving Oxford, and became editor in 1986 following Ingrams's departure. This met opposition from Eye journalists Peter McKay and Nigel Dempster , who attempted a revolt against Hislop with the former taking Peter Cook out for lunch in an attempt to dissuade him from appointing Hislop. Cook, reportedly drunk after
3150-513: The "Ripper." Following Sutcliffe's conviction, the government ordered a review of the Ripper investigation, conducted by the Inspector of Constabulary Lawrence Byford , known as the "Byford Report." The findings were made fully public in 2006, and confirmed the validity of the criticism of the force. The report led to changes to investigative procedures that were adopted across British police forces . Since his conviction, Sutcliffe has been linked to
3255-475: The European Union , Hislop said on Question Time that "after an election or a referendum, even if you lose the vote, you are entitled to go on making the argument". A joke on the front of Private Eye titled "BREXIT LATEST" mocking the reaction to Brexit received "fifty or so" letters of complaint in the next issue. Hislop mocked this, saying that "There was one [letter] from a vicar, too, who told me that it
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3360-923: The First World War. Hislop married author Victoria Hamson in 1988; they have two children, Emily and Will . They live in Sissinghurst in Kent. In 2010, Hislop played a small role in the Greek television series The Island , which was based on his wife's bestselling novel . The series premiered on 11 October 2010 on Greece's Mega television channel. His son Will Hislop is an actor, writer and stand-up comedian. In Caroline Chartres's book Why I Am Still an Anglican , Hislop opens his chapter by saying "I've tried atheism and I can't stick at it: I keep having doubts. That probably sums up my position." In 1996, Hislop presented an award-winning documentary series for Channel 4 about
3465-628: The May 2009 BBC Four Poetry season, and Hislop recounted the history of the post from the first official holder, John Dryden , to the then recently announced first female, first Scot and first openly bisexual laureate, Carol Ann Duffy . His series on Victorian social reformers, Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders , aired on BBC Two beginning on 29 November 2010. His programme on the history of banks, When Bankers were Good , first aired on BBC Two in November 2011, and dealt with famous bankers from history, such as
3570-533: 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 4 January, Sutcliffe suddenly admitted that he was the Yorkshire Ripper. Over
3675-484: The West Yorkshire Police, who was leading the Yorkshire Ripper investigation. The tape contained a man's voice saying, "I'm Jack. I see you're having no luck catching me. I have the greatest respect for you, George, but Lord, you're no nearer catching me now than four years ago when I started." Based on the recorded message, police began searching for a man with a Wearside accent, which linguists narrowed down to
3780-484: The age of 15 and had a series of menial jobs, including two stints as a gravedigger at Bingley Cemetery in the 1960s. Because of this occupation, Sutcliffe developed a macabre sense of humour — co-workers reported that Sutcliffe enjoyed his work too much and would even volunteer to do overtime washing corpses. Between November 1971 and April 1973, Sutcliffe worked at the Baird Television factory on
3885-621: The attack on Rooney, as well as the 1975 attack on Browne. Barbara Mills , QC , the Director of Public Prosecutions, decided at the time that it wasn't in the public's interest to add any additional charges against Sutcliffe for the attacks on Browne and Rooney. At 11:55 p.m. on 4 April 1979, Sutcliffe killed Josephine Anne Whitaker, a 19-year-old clerk, as she was walking home on Savile Park Moor in Halifax. Sutcliffe hit Whitaker from behind with his ball-peen hammer and hit her again as she lay on
3990-469: The back of her thighs. Tyre tracks left near the murder scene resulted in a long list of possible suspect vehicles. Two months later, on 23 April, Sutcliffe killed 32-year-old prostitute Patricia "Tina" Atkinson-Mitra in her Bradford flat, where police found a bootprint on the bedclothes. According to Sutcliffe, he picked Atkinson up in Manningham before driving to her residence. There he hit her on
4095-555: The back of the head four times to incapacitate her, then down her jeans and pants and exposed her breasts. Sutcliffe then stabbed her six times in the stomach with a knife. On 25 June 1977, 16-year-old Jayne Michelle MacDonald went to meet friends at the Hofbrauhaus, a German-style bierkeller in Leeds. She missed the last bus home and went back to a friend's house to wait for his sister to bring her home. After approximately forty-five minutes, MacDonald decided to walk home. During
4200-419: The backyard of 13 Back Ash Grove, behind a low wall into an area where dustbins were kept, before pulling up her shirt and bra to expose her breasts and unfastening her jeans and partially pulling them down. He then stabbed her with the same screwdriver that he had used to kill Whitaker. Sutcliffe covered Leach's body with an old piece of carpet and placed stones on top of it. The second murder of another woman who
4305-725: The body, but was unable to find the note. On 9 October, Jordan's body was discovered by local dairy worker and future actor Bruce Jones , who had an allotment on land adjoining the site and was searching for house bricks when he made the discovery. The five-pound note, hidden in a secret compartment in Jordan's handbag, was traced to branches of the Midland Bank in Bingley and Shipley . Police analysis of bank operations allowed them to narrow their field of inquiry to 8,000 employees who could have received it in their wage packet. Over three months,
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4410-505: The case should be dealt with by a jury. The trial proper was set to commence on 5 May 1981. Sutcliffe's trial lasted two weeks, and despite the efforts of his counsel, James Chadwin QC, Sutcliffe was found guilty of murder on all counts and was sentenced to twenty concurrent sentences of life imprisonment . The jury rejected the evidence of four psychiatrists who gave testimony that Sutcliffe had paranoid schizophrenia, possibly influenced by
4515-594: The course in 1977 and began teaching, she and Sutcliffe used her salary to buy a house at 6 Garden Lane in Heaton , into which they moved on 26 September 1977, and where they were living at the time of Sutcliffe's arrest in 1980. Sutcliffe's first documented assault was of a female prostitute, who he had met while searching for another woman who had tricked him out of money. Sutcliffe left his friend Trevor Birdsall's minivan and walked up St. Paul's Road in Bradford until he
4620-611: The early nineties for the Dawn French vehicle Murder Most Horrid . Hislop and Newman wrote the Radio 4 series The News at Bedtime , a satire on fairy tales which aired over the 2009 Christmas season. The series starred Jack Dee as 'John Tweedledum' and Peter Capaldi as 'Jim Tweedledee'; the two present the "news of the day" in the world of fairy tales, while arguing with each other as did their namesakes . Hislop has presented serious television programmes. These include School Rules ,
4725-442: The evidence of a prison officer who heard him say to his wife that if he convinced people he was mad, he might get ten years in a "loony bin." Justice Boreham stated that Sutcliffe was beyond redemption and hoped he would never leave prison. He recommended a minimum term of thirty years to be served before parole could be considered, meaning Sutcliffe would have been unlikely to be freed until at least 2011. On 16 July 2010,
4830-464: The formation of the coalition government in 2010 , Hislop remarked in an interview, "I like the idea of this coalition neutralising the loonies on both sides". He has also been highly critical of the leadership of the European Union , calling for a referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in a 2003 recording of Have I Got News for You . However, referring to Britain's vote to leave
4935-451: The ground. He then proceeded to stab her with a screwdriver twenty-one times in the chest and stomach and six times in the right leg before also thrusting the screwdriver into her vagina . Whitaker's skull was fractured from ear to ear. Despite forensic evidence , police efforts were diverted for several months following the receipt of a taped message purporting to be from the murderer, taunting Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield of
5040-539: The grounds of diminished responsibility . The basis of his defence was that he claimed to be the tool of God 's will. Sutcliffe said he had heard voices that ordered him to kill prostitutes while working as a gravedigger, which he claimed originated from the headstone of a Polish man, Bronisław Zapolski, and that the voices were that of God. Sutcliffe pleaded guilty to seven charges of attempted murder . The prosecution intended to accept his plea after four psychiatrists diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia , but
5145-493: The head with a ball-peen hammer , then jumped on her chest before stuffing horsehair into her mouth from a discarded sofa, under which he hid her body near Lumb Lane. Ten days later, on 31 January, Sutcliffe killed Elena "Helen" Rytka, an 18-year-old prostitute from Huddersfield , striking her on the head five times as she exited his vehicle at Garrards timber yard before stripping most of her clothes, although her bra and polo-neck jumper were positioned above her breasts. Rytka
5250-468: The head, knocking her out. Long was suffering from hypothermia when found and was hospitalized for nine weeks. A witness misidentified the make of Sutcliffe's car, resulting in more than 300 police officers checking thousands of cars without success. On 1 October 1977, Sutcliffe murdered 20-year-old Jean Bernadette Jordan, a prostitute and mother of two from Manchester known to friends as "Scottish Jean." Shortly after 9:00 p.m., Sutcliffe
5355-715: The history of the Church of England , called Canterbury Tales . His other works include the four-part BBC Radio 4 series The Real Patron Saints . On 4 September 2009, Hislop appeared at "The Gathering", organised by the Archbishop of Canterbury , Rowan Williams , at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society and journalism, among other issues, in front of an audience of about 1,000. Hislop has mocked all major British political parties during his career. Appearing on Question Time on 18 September 2008, he praised Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable for his analysis of
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#17328525431495460-447: The hoax letters and tape. He was remanded in custody and on 21 March 2006 was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison. Humble died on 30 July 2019, aged 63. At approximately 1:00 a.m. on 1 September, Sutcliffe murdered 20-year-old Barbara Janine Leach, a Bradford University social psychology student who had earlier left a pub. Leach was attacked with a hammer after walking past Sutcliffe. He dragged her to
5565-422: The investigation concluded: "The ineffectiveness of the major incident room was a serious handicap to the Ripper investigation. While it should have been the effective nerve centre of the whole police operation, the backlog of unprocessed information resulted in the failure to connect vital pieces of related information. This serious fault in the central index system allowed Peter Sutcliffe to continually slip through
5670-586: The journey she was attacked by Sutcliffe in Reginald Street at around 2:00 a.m. MacDonald's body was discovered the following morning at 9:45 a.m. by children in the playground between Reginald Terrace and Reginald Street in Chapeltown. A post mortem was carried out by the Home Office pathologist Professor David Gee. The extent of her injuries was not revealed at the time by police, although it
5775-453: The killing of Joan Harrison, which he vehemently denied having carried out. Harrison's murder had been linked to the Ripper killings by "Wearside Jack," but in 2011 DNA evidence revealed the crime had actually been committed by convicted sex offender Christopher Smith, who had died in 2008. Sutcliffe was charged on 5 January 1981. At his trial that May, he pleaded not guilty to thirteen charges of murder, but guilty to manslaughter on
5880-462: The lunch, instead announced Hislop was "welcome aboard". The new editor, dismissive of society gossip, sacked both McKay and Dempster from the magazine without hesitation. As editor of Private Eye , Ian Hislop is reputedly the most sued man in English legal history, although he is not involved in as many libel actions as he once was. A libel case was brought against Private Eye and Hislop in 1986 by
5985-506: The national database. The DNA matched that of John Samuel Humble, an unemployed alcoholic and longtime resident of the Ford Estate in Sunderland — a few miles from Castletown — whose DNA had been taken following a drunk and disorderly offence in 2001. On 20 October 2005, Humble was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice for sending
6090-484: The net." The choice by Chief Constable Ronald Gregory of Oldfield to lead the inquiry was criticised by Byford: "The temptation to appoint a 'senior man' on age or service grounds should be resisted. What is needed is an officer of sound professional competence who will inspire confidence and loyalty". Byford found Oldfield's focus on the hoax tape wanting, and that Oldfield had ignored advice from survivors of Sutcliffe's attacks, from several eminent specialists, from
6195-402: The next day, he calmly described his many attacks. Several weeks later he claimed God had told him to murder his victims. "The women I killed were filth," he told police. "Bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit." Sutcliffe displayed regret only when talking of his youngest murder victim, Jayne MacDonald, and showed emotion when questioned about
6300-410: The organization and is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members and managing them. The term is often used at newspapers , magazines , yearbooks , and television news programs. The editor-in-chief is commonly the link between the publisher or proprietor and the editorial staff. The term is also applied to academic journals , where the editor-in-chief gives the ultimate decision whether
6405-665: The others took place in West Yorkshire . Criminal psychologist David Holmes characterised Sutcliffe as being an "extremely callous, sexually sadistic serial killer." Sutcliffe initially attacked women and girls in residential areas, but appears to have shifted his focus to red-light districts because he was attracted by the vulnerability of prostitutes and the perceived ambivalent attitude of police to prostitutes' safety. After his arrest in Sheffield by South Yorkshire Police for driving with false number plates in January 1981, he
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#17328525431496510-588: The personal and creative story behind the symphony . Later in the same year, Hislop gave the prestigious George Orwell Lecture at London's UCL . The following year, he fronted the BBC Two documentary Who Should We Let In? Ian Hislop on the First Great Immigration Row . The programme examined attitudes to immigration from the Victorian era to the First World War . Hislop has also curated an exhibition for
6615-434: The police interviewed 5,000 men, including Sutcliffe. The police found that Sutcliffe's alibi , the family party, was credible. Weeks of intense investigations pertaining to the origins of the note led to nothing, leaving investigators frustrated that they collected an important clue but had been unable to trace the actual firm to which or whom the note had been issued. On 14 December, Sutcliffe attacked Marilyn Moore,
6720-457: The publisher Robert Maxwell after the magazine accused him of funding Labour leader Neil Kinnock 's travel expenses as a means of gaining a peerage. After the case Hislop quipped: "I've just given a fat cheque to a fat Czech". After his death in 1991, Maxwell was revealed to be an extensive fraudster, illegally drawing on his companies' pension funds; his last writ for libel against the Eye and Hislop
6825-491: The services of prostitutes but note that he nonetheless developed an obsession with them, including "watching them soliciting on the streets of Leeds and Bradford." On 14 February 1967, Sutcliffe met 16-year-old Sonia Szurma , the daughter of Ukrainian and Polish refugees from Czechoslovakia , at the Royal Standard pub on Manningham Lane in Bradford's red-light district ; they married on 10 August 1974. Sonia
6930-509: The seventh series in spite of suffering from appendicitis , when he had discharged himself from hospital immediately before the show. With regular writing partner Nick Newman, Hislop wrote the BBC Radio 4 series Gush , a satire based on the first Gulf War , in the style of Jeffrey Archer . With Newman he also wrote the family-friendly satirical sitcom My Dad's the Prime Minister and in
7035-507: The stories of conscientious objectors such as Ronald Skirth , was aired on 10 November 2008. He also presented one episode of the BBC's Great Railway Journeys , in which he travelled in India ("India East to West" from Calcutta to Rajasthan). In May 2007 he presented a programme on BBC Four, Ian Hislop's Scouting for Boys , celebrating Robert Baden-Powell 's book which inspired the Scout movement (he
7140-586: The theft of used tyres. He was unemployed until October 1976, when he found a job as an HGV driver for T. & W.H. Clark Holdings Ltd. on the Canal Road Industrial Estate in Bradford . Sutcliffe reportedly hired prostitutes as a young man, and it has been speculated that he had a bad experience during which he was conned out of money by a prostitute and her pimp . Other analyses of Sutcliffe's actions have not found evidence that he actually sought
7245-461: The trial judge, Justice Sir Leslie Boreham , demanded an unusually detailed explanation of the prosecution's reasoning. After a two-hour representation by the Attorney-General , Sir Michael Havers , a ninety-minute lunch break and another forty minutes of legal discussion, Justice Boreham rejected the diminished responsibility plea and the expert testimonies of the psychiatrists, insisting that
7350-592: The unwitting getaway driver in his first documented assault in 1969, reported him to the police as a suspect. In total, Sutcliffe had been questioned by the police on nine separate occasions in connection with the Ripper enquiry before his eventual arrest and conviction. On 2 January 1981, Sutcliffe was stopped by 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
7455-755: The van of their family roofing business. Sutcliffe picked up Jackson, who was soliciting outside the Gaiety pub on Roundhay Road, then drove about half a mile to some derelict buildings on Enfield Terrace in the Manor Industrial Estate. Sutcliffe hit Jackson on the head with a hammer, dragged her body into a rubbish-strewn yard, then used a sharpened screwdriver to stab her in the neck, chest and abdomen. He stamped on her thigh, leaving behind an impression of his boot. Sutcliffe attacked 20-year-old Marcella Claxton in Roundhay Park on 9 May. Walking home from
7560-428: The year award; in his acceptance speech he said that Private Eye obtaining its best ABC sales figures since the magazine's launch 55 years earlier proved that "journalism is A, worth doing, and B, worth paying for both in terms of paying journalists and the public paying up for it". In January 2022, Hislop alongside fellow Eye journalists Richard Brooks and Solomon Hughes presented evidence on MPs ' conduct to
7665-542: The years. Despite these challenges, Hislop has remained a key figure in British satire and journalism. Hislop was born on 13 July 1960 in Mumbles , Swansea, to a Scottish father, David Hislop, from Ayrshire , and a Channel Islander mother born in Jersey , Helen Rosemarie Hislop (née Beddows), who left for Wales in her late teens. Hislop did not know his grandparents. His paternal grandfather, David Murdoch Hislop, died just before he
7770-460: Was Catholic while his father was a member of the choir at the local Anglican church of St Wilfred's; their children were raised in their mother's Catholic faith, and Sutcliffe briefly served as an altar boy. Sutcliffe's mother was the victim of domestic abuse by his father, making it likely she struggled through her pregnancy under great emotional stress . Sutcliffe was born premature , having to spend two weeks in hospital. Sutcliffe's father
7875-452: Was psychologically traumatised by the attack. She later said: "I've been afraid to go out much because I feel people are staring and pointing at me. The whole thing is making my life a misery. I sometimes wish I had died in the attack." On the night of 15 August, Sutcliffe attacked 46-year-old Olive Smelt in Halifax . Employing the same modus operandi , he briefly engaged Smelt with
7980-473: Was "bursting for a pee." Sutcliffe hid a second knife in the toilet cistern at Dewsbury police station when he was permitted to use the toilet. 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 found to be wearing an inverted V-necked jumper under his trousers. The sleeves had been pulled over his legs, and
8085-715: Was 12 years old his father died; his mother died when he was 32. On his return to Britain he was educated at Ardingly College , an independent boarding school, where he became head boy , and began his satirical career directing and appearing in revues alongside Nick Newman . Hislop's and Newman's association continued when they attended Oxford University together; later they worked together at Private Eye and on comedy scriptwriting jobs. Hislop applied to read philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, but changed to English literature before arriving at Magdalen College . His Oxford tutors included Bernard O'Donoghue , John Fuller and David Norbrook . While at university, Hislop
8190-407: Was a heavy drinker who once smashed a beer glass over Sutcliffe's head for sitting in his chair at Christmas dinner. He also hated Sutcliffe's mother: "She was a bitch and the least said about her, the better." Sutcliffe's father would frequently dismiss his slightly built son as "a wimp, always hanging from his mother's apron, a mummy's boy." Sutcliffe's mother often lavished attention on her son and
8295-472: Was a scriptwriter on the 1980s political satire series Spitting Image , in which puppets were used to depict well-known figures, mostly politicians. He even had a puppet of himself, which sometimes appeared as a background character in sketches. Hislop has been a team captain on Have I Got News for You , against the team led by Paul Merton , since it began in 1990. He is the only person to have appeared in every episode of its run, even filming an episode in
8400-506: Was about this "malicious" and "mendacious" claim. Another libel case in May 1989 threatened the magazine's existence when it was ordered to pay £600,000 in damages following an action for libel by Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe . Hislop told reporters waiting outside the High Court : "If that's justice, then I'm a banana." The award was dropped to £60,000 on appeal. In an interview with Third Way Magazine in 1995 he explained his intentions in his work: "Satire
8505-534: Was actively involved in student journalism; he relaunched and edited the satirical magazine Passing Wind . He graduated with a 2:1 in 1981. At Oxford, Hislop revived and edited the magazine Passing Wind , for which he interviewed Richard Ingrams , who was then editor of Private Eye , and Peter Cook , then the majority shareholder. Hislop's first article in the Eye appeared in 1980 before he sat his university finals. A parody of The Observer magazine's "Room of My Own" feature, it described an IRA prisoner on
8610-606: Was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. He was dubbed in press reports as the Yorkshire Ripper , an allusion to the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper . Sutcliffe was sentenced to twenty concurrent sentences of life imprisonment , which were converted to a whole life order in 2010. Two of his murders took place in Manchester ; all
8715-513: Was arrested and transferred to Dewsbury police station in West Yorkshire. There, Sutcliffe was questioned in relation to the Ripper case as he matched many of the known physical characteristics. The next day, Sergeant Robert Ring decided on a "hunch" to return to the scene of Sutcliffe's arrest, where he discovered a knife, hammer and rope that Sutcliffe had discarded behind an oil storage tank when he briefly slipped away after telling police he
8820-448: Was arrested. Whilst awaiting trial for this, due in mid-January 1981, he killed 47-year-old civil servant Marguerite Walls on the night of 20 August. Walls left her office between 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. to walk to her home in Farsley . Sutcliffe incapacitated her with a hammer blow to the back of her head as he continued to strike her while yelling "filthy prostitute" beside
8925-621: Was attacked as she hurried down a dark street to catch the bus home. She suffered from significant wounds when she awoke in the hospital, including a puncture hole to the back of her skull, a fractured skull, a fractured cheekbone, a broken jaw and numerous scratches and bruises. Theresa Sykes, aged 16, was attacked in Huddersfield on the night of 5 November. Sykes was going to a shop in Oakes when Sutcliffe hit her from behind. Her boyfriend heard her screams and ran out, scaring off Sutcliffe. Sykes
9030-556: Was born. His maternal grandfather, William Beddows, was originally from Lancashire . When he was five months old, Hislop's family began to travel around the world because of his father's job as a civil engineer. During his infant years, Hislop lived in Nigeria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Hong Kong. Hislop has said he possibly went to school with Osama bin Laden while in Saudi Arabia. When Hislop
9135-490: Was cruising the area of Moss Side when he picked up Jordan. After they arrived in Princess Road near Southern Cemetery , he hit her once in the head before proceeding to hit her ten more times. In a later confession, Sutcliffe admitted he had realised the new five-pound note he had given to Jordan was traceable. After hosting a family party at his home, he returned to the wasteland behind Southern Cemetery, where he had left
9240-539: Was going out to buy cigarettes. Sutcliffe picked up Millward and drove her to the parking compound of the Manchester Royal Infirmary in Chorlton-on-Medlock . After she got out of his car, Sutcliffe attacked Millward with a hammer. She was also slashed across the stomach and stabbed repeatedly with a screwdriver through the same wound in her back. After she died, Sutcliffe dragged Millward's body against
9345-457: Was interviewed on this issue. Police discontinued the search for the person who received the five-pound note in January 1978. Although Sutcliffe was interviewed about the matter, he was not investigated further and was contacted and disregarded by the Ripper investigation on several further occasions. That month, Sutcliffe killed Yvonne Ann Pearson, a 21-year-old prostitute from Bradford, on 21 January 1978. He repeatedly bludgeoned her about
9450-513: Was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip - An Emotional History of Britain , about how a meme for repression of emotions spread through British culture, began on 2 October 2012 and ran for three episodes on BBC Two . Beginning on 9 April 2014, Hislop presented a three-part BBC Two series Ian Hislop's Olden Days . In 2016, he presented The Secret of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony ,
9555-500: Was not a prostitute alarmed the public and prompted an expensive publicity campaign emphasising the Wearside connection. Despite the false lead, Sutcliffe was interviewed on at least two other occasions in 1979. Despite matching several forensic clues and being on the list of 300 names in connection with the five-pound note, he was not strongly suspected. On 26 June, Sutcliffe was stopped while driving, tested positive for drink driving and
9660-478: Was not convicted of the attack but confessed in 1992. Browne later said that she had been charmed by Sutcliffe at first: "We had walked together for almost a mile – for about 30 minutes and I never once felt intimidated or in danger." The first victim to be killed by Sutcliffe was 28-year-old Wilma Mary McCann, a mother of four from Scott Hall , on 30 October. McCann was last seen alive at 7:30 p.m. when she left her council house on Scott Hall Avenue, in
9765-438: Was one of the largest and most expensive manhunts in British history. West Yorkshire Police faced heavy and sustained criticism for their failure to catch Sutcliffe despite having interviewed him nine times in the course of their five-year investigation. Owing to the sensational nature of the case, investigators handled an exceptional amount of information, some of it misleading including hoax correspondence purporting to be from
9870-417: Was out of sight. When he returned, Sutcliffe was out of breath, as if he had been running; he told Birdsall to drive off quickly. Sutcliffe said he had followed a prostitute into a garage and hit her over the head with a stone in a sock. Police visited Sutcliffe's home the next day, as the woman he had attacked had noted Birdsall's vehicle registration plate . Sutcliffe admitted he had hit her, but claimed it
9975-516: Was recovering from brain surgery when Sutcliffe was arrested. Jacqueline Hill, a 20-year-old student at Leeds University, was murdered on the night of 17 November. Hill was returning home to her students' hall of residence in Headingley when Sutcliffe delivered a blow to her head before removing her clothes and stabbing her repeatedly in the chest and once in the eye with a screwdriver. On 25 November, Trevor Birdsall, Sutcliffe's friend and
10080-476: Was stored on handwritten index cards . Aside from difficulties in storing and accessing the paperwork, it was difficult for investigators to overcome the information overload of such a large manual system. Sutcliffe was interviewed nine times, but all information police had about the case was stored in paper form, making cross-referencing difficult, compounded by television appeals for information, which generated thousands more documents. The 1982 Byford Report into
10185-425: Was studying to become a teacher when she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia . Her relationship with Sutcliffe was later characterised by the writer Gordon Burn as domineering, with Sonia willing to slap down her husband "like a naughty schoolboy," while Sutcliffe even had to occasionally "contain her physically by pinning her arms to her side" during her common "unprovoked outbursts of rage." Barbara Jones,
10290-400: Was subsequently revealed she had been hit on the head three times with a hammer and had been stabbed in the chest and back; a broken bottle was found embedded in her chest. The following month, on 10 July 1977, Sutcliffe assaulted 43-year-old Maureen Long in Bradford. Long was leaving a nightclub when Sutcliffe offered her a lift home. Long stopped to urinate and Sutcliffe struck her on
10395-417: Was then sexually assaulted as she lay on the ground. Rytka was the sole victim that Sutcliffe had intercourse with. After Rytka staggered to her feet, Sutcliffe again struck her on the back of the head with his hammer a number of times before retrieving a knife from his car and stabbing her several times through the heart and lungs. Rytka's body was found three days later behind a stack of timber, placed under
10500-457: Was time to accept the victory of the majority of the people and to stop complaining. ... I wrote back and told him that this argument was a bit much, coming from a church that had begun with a minority of 12 ." He has expressed dismay over the level of public debate in the aftermath of Britain's vote to leave the EU and the election of Donald Trump , describing it as Orwellian in nature, saying that "one
10605-491: Was to become seen by Sutcliffe as "perfect." Sutcliffe's father habitually whipped his children with a belt as a form of punishment. Sutcliffe's siblings later described their father as "a monster" and, according to Sutcliffe's younger brother, "The atmosphere in our house would change as soon as he [John] walked in. His life revolved around playing football, cricket, singing in a choir—and womanising." In 1970, Sutcliffe's father posed as his wife's lover in order to lure her to
10710-488: Was transferred that month to HM Prison Frankland . Sutcliffe died in hospital from diabetes -related complications while in prison custody in 2020. Peter William Sutcliffe was born on Sunday, 2 June 1946 to a working-class family in Bingley , West Riding of Yorkshire . His parents were John William Sutcliffe (1922–2004) and his Irish wife, Kathleen Frances Coonan (1919–1978), a native of Connemara . Sutcliffe's mother
10815-471: Was transferred to the custody of West Yorkshire Police , who questioned him about the killings. Sutcliffe confessed to being the perpetrator, saying that the voice of God had sent him on a mission to kill prostitutes. At his trial he pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of diminished responsibility , but was convicted of murder on a majority verdict. Following his conviction, Sutcliffe began using his mother's maiden name of Coonan. The search for Sutcliffe
10920-479: Was walking home from meeting friends when Sutcliffe followed her into an alley in Headingley . He struck her on the head, rendering her unconscious, then, when he was startled, dragged her along the street with a rope around her neck and fled. Maureen Lea, a 21-year-old art student at Leeds University , was attacked by Sutcliffe on 25 October. Lea had finished visiting a pub with friends in Chapeltown when she
11025-508: Was with his hand. Officers told Sutcliffe he was "very lucky," as the woman did not want to press charges. Sutcliffe committed his second assault in Keighley on the night of 5 July 1975. He attacked 36-year-old Anna Rogulskyj, who was walking alone, striking her unconscious with a hammer and slashing her stomach with a knife. Disturbed by a neighbour, Sutcliffe left the scene without killing her. Rogulskyj survived after brain surgery but
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