Sutcliffe,who is in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, is seeking a finite sentence because he was mentally ill when he killedPeter Sutcliffe, and the Yorkshire Ripper,who murdered 13 women and attempted to kill seven others, nowadays launched a legal challenge to overturn a ruling saying he must be detained for the rest of his life.
The court of appeal heard that Sutcliffe had a severe mental disorder at the time of the brutal killings, or which diminished his responsibility and justified a minimum jail term of a finite number of years.
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Source: theguardian.com