Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe 'cremated in small secret funeral'
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Mick Sutcliffe told the Daily Mirror his brother was cremated following a funeral at an unknown location early on Friday.
Mr Sutcliffe, 70, said he was told the funeral would take place this week, with family members able to attend online via Zoom.
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Hide AdHowever, he was told on Friday morning the funeral had taken place in private, thought to have been organised by the killer's ex-wife.


"Peter has caused so much pain. He also put our family through hell. So we needed to be at that funeral to get that closure. We wanted to say goodbye," he told the Mirror.
In a eulogy he had prepared for the service, shared with the newspaper, Mr Sutcliffe wrote: "Peter, all of your family love you as Peter Sutcliffe, although you ruined all our lives when you became the Yorkshire Ripper."
Last week an inquest heard Sutcliffe died aged 74 from a combination of Covid-19, diabetes and heart disease.
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Hide AdHe was an inmate of the maximum-security Frankland jail and died at the nearby University Hospital of North Durham on November 13.
Sutcliffe had a number of underlying health conditions which left him almost blind and needing to use a wheelchair.
Detective Inspector Claire Lambert, from Durham Constabulary, told the inquest that police were told of Sutcliffe's admission to hospital on November 10.
She said he had been ill for weeks before being transferred to hospital.
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Hide AdSutcliffe's killing spree across Yorkshire and Manchester from 1975 to 1980 terrified northern England and led to a huge manhunt and a botched police inquiry.
Sutcliffe eventually confessed in 1981 after he was caught in Sheffield.
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Hide AdSutcliffe was sentenced to 20 life terms for the murders of 13 women and the attempted murder of seven more.