The Yorkshire Ripper's family is to write to Home Secretary in a bid to move him to the North of England following an attempt on his life in Broadmoor.

The move comes as Woolworths killer Ian Kay, 30, was ordered to be confined to Broadmoor special hospital for life yesterday by a judge at Reading Crown Court.

Kay admitted the attempted murder of Bradford lorry driver Peter Sutcliffe, which left Sutcliffe blind in one eye.

But today one of Sutcliffe's vicitms, Maureen Long, 62, of Buttershaw, said: "If they move him to Liverpool he will be even nearer. I don't want him near us - he could escape and it's not far to come here.

"I have to have someone with me all the time - I'm still very frightened. I can't go out alone. He should have had his other eye blinded as well."

A source close to the family of Sutcliffe, who is serving life for the murder of 13 women, said today: "They want him in the North where they can visit him. They are relieved that Kay will be confined to hospital for life but they want Peter in the secure unit at Ashworth Hospital in Liverpool."

"We have asked for the move from Broadmoor itself in the past and it had got nowhere. It seems the opportune time to do it and I believe they will write to the Home Secretary now.

He added: "Because of what happened Peter has been forced to stay in hospital because they couldn't find another room and gave his to another prisoner while he was being treated. Peter has seemed greatly subdued but not depressed by what has happened."

"After Peter's attack the family were not able to visit him for a very long time when his sight was in danger. The journey takes eight hours and his father is a very sick man with a very bad heart. He has had three operations.

Another of Sutcliffe's victims, grandmother Olive Smelt, said: " They are as bad as each other.

"If they have killed, they have killed and I have no time for any of them - they are all just sick."

Mrs Smelt, who was nearly killed by the Ripper near her home in Halifax in 1975, said she had no sympathy for Sutcliffe. It's tough luck.

"He killed a lot of women and their children grew up without mothers - that's what I think of."

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