ITV releases new teaser of Yorkshire Ripper drama adaptation The Long Shadow starring Katherine Kelly
MO Lea's heart quickened in terror as the sound of footsteps behind her moved closer and grew louder.
“A few months after my attack I saw Sutcliffe's face on TV it was the same man who had attacked me - In that moment I just fell to the floor, I was on my knees. “I walked at quite a fast pace," she recalls. "I went through the university campus and noticed it was really quiet - that was uncanny because it was usually a busy campus with a student bar."
Mo suffered horrific injuries - her skull was fractured, her cheek and jaw broken and she had puncture wounds to her neck. “I just thought it was a stranger because at the time the narrative was that the man on the loose only attacked prostitutes,” she explains.Despite her attacker’s modus operandi matching that of the man who was later revealed to be Sutcliffe, police were searching for the wrong person.
Mo says: “Ultimately, Jacqueline Hill's murder could have been prevented if police had continued to look into my case. “I didn't want to be named a victim and I didn't ever want to be connected with the Yorkshire Ripper story at all. "Mainly because I'd tried to keep it secret, but also what had taken them so long to come and acknowledge that they knew that I was a victim of Sutcliffe?"October 1975: Sutcliffe kills Wilma McCann in Leeds – his first murder.May 1981: He is given 20 life sentences at The Old Bailey over 13 murders and seven attempted murders. He starts sentence at HMP Parkhurst, Isle of Wight.November 13, 2020 – Sutcliffe dies.
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