Yorkshire Ripper appeals to be transferred because he’s ‘not a risk anymore’

The Yorkshire Ripper is appealing to be transferred to a lower risk prison as he thinks he is no longer a threat to the public, it has been claimed.

Peter Sutcliffe, 72, who faces life behind bars over the brutal killing of 13 women, is said to be appealing to be transferred to a class B prison.

Currently a category A inmate at Frankland Prison, Co Durham, the transfer would potentially mean Sutcliffe getting more time out of his cell and moving to a less secure prison.

He is said to have taken up counselling sessions in the hope it may convince the court he is taking his rehabilitation seriously.

Counsellors and prison bosses are due to decide on the move when the Ripper shows up at a tribunal next month.

‘Sutcliffe is doing what he can to show he is ready to be lowered to Cat B and is not a danger,’ a source told the Sun.

‘He knows doing the psychology, or at least asking to do it, will improve his chances.’

‘You only have to look at me to see I couldn’t escape.’

Now known as Peter Coonan, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, he was convicted at the Old Bailey in 1981.

He received 20 life terms for the murder of 13 women and the attempted murder of seven others in Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.

Most of the victims were prostitutes he had beaten up and mutilated.

The 72-yer-old threatened to kill himself in 2016 when it was ruled he would be transferred from the Broadmoor mental institute where he’d stayed for 32 years to a category A prison.

He was transferred to the high-security institution in Berkshire in 1984 after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

The former lorry driver spent the first three years of his sentence at Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight.