Bottom row: Vera Millward, Josephine Whitaker, Barbara Leach and Jacqueline Hill Middle row: Jayne McDonald, Jean Jordan, Yvonne Pearson and Helen Rytka. Twelve of Sutcliffe's 13 victims. Top row (left to right): Wilma McCann, Emily Jackson, Irene Richardson and Patricia Atkinson. Sutcliffe confessed to this crime in 1992 but was never convicted of it. He ran off when he saw the lights of a passing car, leaving his victim requiring brain surgery. He struck her from behind and hit her on the head five times. Again he was interrupted and left his victim badly injured but alive.ġ2 days later he attacked 14-year-old Tracy Browne in Silsden. He struck her with a hammer from behind then slashed her lower back with a knife. On the night of 15 August, Sutcliffe attacked Olive Smelt in Halifax. Rogulskyj survived after neurological surgery. Disturbed by a neighbour, he left without killing her. As she was walking alone, he struck her unconscious with a ball-peen hammer and slashed her stomach with a knife.

Sutcliffe attacked Anna Rogúlskyj on the night of 5 July 1975 in Keighley.

Police tracked him down the next day and told him he was 'very lucky', as the woman did not want anything more to do with the incident. The first woman known to be attacked by Sutcliffe was a female prostitute who he hit over the head with a stone in a sock in Bradford in 1969. The Yorkshire Ripper's five-year reign of terror sparked the country's biggest ever manhunt - but police missed multiple opportunites to find the sadistic killer. The monster who terrorised an entire country: The desperate five-year search for The Yorkshire Ripper

Shadow Play by Katherine Sutcliffe