He's evil, not insane: Ripper set to move to 'Monster Mansion' after 31 years at Broadmoor

EXCLUSIVE: Killer loses cushy life in hospital and fears move to high-security jail in Wakefield.

Ripper (right) set for hardcore Wakefield jail with Roy Whiting (bottom far left) and paedo Ian Watkins

PETER Sutcliffe fears he will be moved from cushy Broadmoor to Wakefield Prison  the high-security jail dubbed “monsters mansion” after its notorious inmates.

Back to jail,  Sutcliffe on a visit to an eye clinic in September

Doctors have ruled Yorkshire Ripper Sutcliffe’s treatment at the secure hospital has ended, 31 years after he was admitted as a paranoid schizophrenic.

The 69-year-old serial killer is convinced he is heading to grim Wakefield, at the heart of the region where he waged his five-year reign of terror. He told one friend: “It might be Wakefield.

What a disaster. I’m devastated and have lost all hope.  “Category A prisons are a pit of black despair and hopelessness. I’ll spend the rest of my days there.”

Moving Sutcliffe from Broadmoor to jail will save taxpayers £300,000 a year. He will also lose the relaxed regime that allows him to write dozens of letters and make around 15 phone calls each week.

He told the friend: “I don’t want to go back to prison.


“The nurses discuss things with you at Broadmoor, they’re friendly and patient. But in prison all they do is bung you your tablets and expect you to get on with it. All my letters and phone calls would disappear as well.”

Second victim . . . Emily

Sutcliffe has become so depressed at the thought of prison he is now on suicide watch, with Broadmoor staff checking him every 15 minutes. He served the first three years of his life sentence for 13 murders and seven attempted murders in Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight. He was moved to Broadmoor in 1984.

Doctors now believe his mental health is fine. Sutcliffe himself told psychiatrists he no longer hears the voices that urged him to kill  although he recently claimed he was hearing them again.

Psychiatrist Dr Kevin Murray told Sutcliffe at a meeting on Tuesday that his treatment had come to an end — and warned that he must prepare for a return to prison. Sutcliffe was angling for a move to a medium secure hospital but that has been rejected.

Neil Jackson, whose mum Emily was Sutcliffe’s second victim, welcomed moves to return him to jail. He said: “I can’t believe they let him stay in Broadmoor for so long.”

Wakefield’s current inmates include paedophile pop star Ian Watkins, April Jones’s killer Mark Bridger and Sarah Payne murderer Roy Whiting.