Jury in 1981 rejected truth of Sutcliffe’s account to psychiatrists that a divine voice had told him to abolish prostitutes
It has always been a key feature of the Yorkshire Ripper case that although the jury at his trial found Peter Sutcliffe sane at the time that he murdered 13 women,the psychiatrists diagnosed him as having paranoid schizophrenia.
The sole issue at his trial in 1981 was whether or not his responsibility for the killings was diminished by mental abnormality. The announcement by clinicians that he no longer requires hospital treatment, and that he could now be sent back to prison, and revives that original issue.
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Source: theguardian.com