<p>One of Britain's most notorious serial killers, "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, died on Friday aged 74, the government said.</p>.<p>Sutcliffe was convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others in northern England after a reign of terror that is still seared on the public memory.</p>.<p>He received 20 life sentences and was ordered to serve at least 30 years in prison, but in 2010 a High Court judge ruled that he was never to be released.</p>.<p>"HMP Frankland prisoner Peter Coonan (born Sutcliffe) died in hospital on November 13, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has been informed," the Ministry of Justice said in a statement.</p>.<p>Truck driver Sutcliffe, who was assessed to have had paranoid schizophrenia at the time he committed his crimes, had spent time after his sentence at a high-security psychiatric facility.</p>.<p>But he was transferred to HMP Frankland, near Durham, northeast England, after his mental state was deemed stable enough.</p>.<p>He was attacked in jail, losing the sight in his left eye, and had underlying health conditions including heart trouble and diabetes linked to his ballooning size.</p>.<p>He had tested positive for Covid-19 but according to British media reports this week had refused treatment. No immediate cause of death was given.</p>
<p>One of Britain's most notorious serial killers, "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, died on Friday aged 74, the government said.</p>.<p>Sutcliffe was convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others in northern England after a reign of terror that is still seared on the public memory.</p>.<p>He received 20 life sentences and was ordered to serve at least 30 years in prison, but in 2010 a High Court judge ruled that he was never to be released.</p>.<p>"HMP Frankland prisoner Peter Coonan (born Sutcliffe) died in hospital on November 13, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has been informed," the Ministry of Justice said in a statement.</p>.<p>Truck driver Sutcliffe, who was assessed to have had paranoid schizophrenia at the time he committed his crimes, had spent time after his sentence at a high-security psychiatric facility.</p>.<p>But he was transferred to HMP Frankland, near Durham, northeast England, after his mental state was deemed stable enough.</p>.<p>He was attacked in jail, losing the sight in his left eye, and had underlying health conditions including heart trouble and diabetes linked to his ballooning size.</p>.<p>He had tested positive for Covid-19 but according to British media reports this week had refused treatment. No immediate cause of death was given.</p>