The way police talked about the victims was appalling. The pros’ press conference is over.’ I wasn’t offended but it showed the limits of his imagination,” she said. “I turned up at Moss Side police station and I had a huge old tape recorder slung over my shoulder and a notebook and a pen in my hand … The head of the Ripper squad took one look at me and said: ‘Sorry dear, you’re too late. Photograph: Barry Wilkinson/ sw/Rex/Shutterstock George Oldfield talks to the press in 1980. She recalls being mistaken for a sex worker at a press conference in Manchester, which took place straight after officers had invited local sex workers to listen to a tape recording made by a man who later turned out to be a hoaxer called John Humble. Joan Smith, then a young reporter working for Piccadilly Radio in Manchester, was one of the few women to cover the case. But the Ripper is now killing innocent girls.” We, as a police force, will continue to arrest prostitutes. Jim Hobson, a senior West Yorkshire detective, told a press conference that the killer “has made it clear that he hates prostitutes.
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She recalled how George Oldfield, who led the investigation, addressed the murderer on TV in 1979 saying: “There may be more pawns in this war before I catch you, but I will catch you.” That’s what women were to these detectives, said Bindel: disposable pawns.
The clear implication: that sex workers or women who had been drinking were fair game. Headlines stated Sutcliffe made his “first mistake” after killing a 16-year-old walking home from school, Jayne MacDonald. She was involved in a group campaigning to end violence against women in Leeds and described how women felt under attack from all sides – not just by the Ripper, but by the blatant sexism from the press and West Yorkshire police. She reported it to the police, but they dismissed her.Ī protest march by women in Bradford in 1981. The feminist campaigner Julie Bindel was 18 and living in Leeds when Sutcliffe killed his 13th and final victim there: Jacqueline Hill, a 20-year-old student, who was murdered three weeks after Lea was attacked.īindel lived less than a mile away from where Hill’s body was found and had been followed up the hill late one night the week before the murder by a man fitting Sutcliffe’s description. Part of me felt I deserved this because I had gone out on my own.” I thought I had been stupid for walking in the wrong place. Lea immediately recognised him, but the police didn’t want to know – perhaps “though embarrassment that another victim had arrived” she said. Two months later, Peter Sutcliffe was arrested. “What have you done to deserve this?” she was asked. In hospital, bloodied and bruised, the blame was immediately shifted on to her. “I heard this massive whack on the top of my head and all I can remember is the pavement coming towards my face,” she said.
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