Friday, November 13, 2020

One Down, Two to Go

 Peter Sutcliffe, aka "The Yorkshire Ripper", has died in prison:

Peter Sutcliffe, one of the UK's most notorious prisoners, was serving a whole-life term for murdering 13 women across Yorkshire and the North West between 1975 and 1980. He was jailed in 1981 and spent several years at Broadmoor Hospital where he was treated for paranoid schizophrenia, before he was transferred to HMP Frankland in County Durham in 2016. A Prison Service spokesman confirmed on Friday that Sutcliffe had died at University Hospital of North Durham, three miles from where he was an inmate. He had contracted COVID-19 but is understood to have refused treatment for the virus.

"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “why do you care about this dude?"

Thanks for asking, faithful readers!  Unlike you American rubes I'm a master of British television, which means that I know that the characters of Dawn and Pete Sutcliffe from the all-time classic series Gavin and Stacey were named after the serial killer. Both of the titular characters, Gavin Shipman and Stacey West, were also named after serial killers - something the families of the victims of the serial killers were not too pleased about.

Now enjoy some classic Dawn & Pete below!

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