Ex-Broadmoor nurse recalls chilling detail about Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe that 'frightened' him
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A former nurse at the infamous Broadmoor psyciatric hospital has shared his first memories of coming into contact with the Yorkshire Ripper who was detained there for three decades. In a new Channel 5 documentary called Broadmoor, about the high security psychiatric ward in Berkshire, a former nurse recalled first meeting the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe.
![[A former nurse at the infamous Broadmoor hospital has shared his first memories of coming into contact with the notorious Yorkshire Ripper (pictured)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/10/22/10/91136247-13986235-image-m-16_1729589365511.jpg)
Broadmoor, which is located in Crowthorne, 40 miles from London, has been home to some of the most violent criminals in English history, including Ronnie Kray, Peter Sutcliffe and Charles Bronson. Dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, who murdered 13 women and attempted to kill several others in the 1970s, is one criminal to have spent a considerable period of time in the facility, having been housed there for 30 years.
![[Dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper - Peter Sutcliffe is one criminal to have spent a considerable period of time in the facility, having been housed there for 30 years]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/10/22/10/91136231-13986235-image-a-19_1729589398938.jpg)
During the new documentary, a former nursing assistant, Neil Wheatcroft, who worked in the facility from 1995 to 2009, recalled first meeting the serial killer. In a new Channel 5 documentary called Broadmoor, (pictured) about the infamous high security psychiatric ward in Berkshire, a former nurse recalled first meeting the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe.
![[The killer spent thirty years at Broadmoor Hospital before being moved to HMP Frankland in County Durham in 2016]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/10/22/10/91136275-13986235-The_killer_spent_thirty_years_at_Broadmoor_Hospital_before_being-a-2_1729590409768.jpg)
A former nurse at the infamous Broadmoor hospital has shared his first memories of coming into contact with the notorious Yorkshire Ripper (pictured). 'He frightened me to start with because his eyes were like looking into a shark, there was no life there at all,' he said.
![[Sutcliffe was sentenced to 20 concurrent life sentences, he began his sentence at HMP Pankhurst in May 1981 but was transferred to Broadmoor in March 1984]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/10/22/10/91107325-13986235-Sutcliffe_was_sentenced_to_20_concurrent_life_sentences_he_began-a-1_1729590409768.jpg)
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