Mental health chiefs have officially confirmed that Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was never paid compensation after a fellow Broadmoor inmate blinded him in one eye.
National newspapers have claimed that the Bradford lorry driver was paid £196,000 in compensation after killer Ian Kay stabbed him with a pen in 1997.
They have also suggested 61-year-old Sutcliffe, of Heaton, was planning to sue Broadmoor for negligence after he was wounded in another attack by an inmate last month.
Sutcliffe's younger brother Mick, of Bingley, has denied there is any truth in the newspapers' claims.
Today, West London Mental Health NHS Trust confirmed the reports were "misleading".
A spokesman declared: "We wish to make it clear that Broadmoor Hospital has not made any compensation payment to Peter Sutcliffe following an incident at the hospital in 1997.
"No such compensation payment has been sought and stories of a six-figure sum being paid by the hospital are totally without foundation."
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