UK News 21-01-2005 who: Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe what: Permitted to leave Broadmoor to visit father`s ashes where: ARNSIDE when: Monday snippet: The 58 year-old, who murdered 13 women between 1975 and 1981, was "driven to the Lake District in a secret operation," The Sun revealed. "The decision to release him on the day trip has caused a political row," says The Independent. "Tim Collins, the shadow education secretary whose Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency covers Arnside, said he had written to Mr Clarke seeking a `cast-iron guarantee` that Sutcliffe would not be allowed to return." In other news of serial murder, it was reported this week that the Shipman Inquiry is about to issue a report speculating that GP Harold Shipman - who is believed to have killed at least 215 of his patients - may have murdered 137 more while he trained as a hospital doctor in West Yorkshire. [... more]

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