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"I wonder who you think you are / You damn well think you're God or something / God give life, God taketh it away, not you / I think you are the Devil itself"- This quote is taken from the report of the trial against Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire ripper. you hear the mother of one of the girls killed by Sutcliffe speaking to a camera outside the court room in Leeds. On Friday, 2 January 1981 the Yorkshire Ripper’s five-year reign of terror came to an end. In the previous five years, beginning in July 1975 with his first attack, he had killed thirteen women and left seven others for dead.