BEAUTY SPOT & THE BEAST

Sutcliffe's ashes 'scattered at village he visited'

- LUCY THORNTON

TRANQUIL and filled with light, this hardly seems a fitting end for a man who carried out one of Britain’s darkest crime waves.

But it is the area where Peter Sutcliffe's ashes may have been scattered.

The Yorkshire Ripper, who terrorised women in the 1970s and 1980s, was convicted of 13 murders. He died in 2020 aged 74 after getting Covid.

His niece Emily Sutcliffe says some of her evil uncle's remains were scattered by the seaside close to the beautiful village of Arnside, Cumbria.

The Ripper visited the area as a boy, staying at his uncle's caravan.

Emily, 28, said: "I was taken there once or twice when I was a child. It is lovely.

"That area means a lot to the whole family. We had family living in the area at the time and would visit them."

Speaking for the first time about her twisted uncle, Emily said the killer had a dreadful impact on her life.

The young mum added: "When he died it felt a bit like freedom, a relief.