Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe to leave Broadmoor for jail

Peter Sutcliffe Credit: PA

The Yorkshire Ripper is set to move out of Broadmoor psychiatric hospital and back into jail after a mental health tribunal ruled him sane enough to do so.

The 70-year-old serial killer has spent 32 years inside the high-security institution in Berkshire after murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven more between 1976 and 1981.

Sutcliffe was caught when police found him with a prostitute in his car. They became suspicious and found he had a fake licence plate and weapons including a screwdriver and hammer in the boot.

Most of Sutcliffe's victims were prostitutes who were mutilated and beaten to death.

The former lorry driver was jailed at Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight in 1981 after being given 20 life terms for the murders. He was moved to Broadmoor three years later after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

The decision of the tribunal has been referred to the Ministry of Justice, which still needs to confirm the move.

Sutcliffe - who is originally from Bradford - now calls himself Peter Coonan.