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Ripper to cash in on stabbing
YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is set to cash in AGAIN after a fellow psychopath tried to gouge out his only eye.
The serial killer, 61, netted £196,000 compensation after losing his other one in a similar incident ten years ago.
Now insiders say he plans to sue Broadmoor Hospital for negligence after patient Patrick Sureda plunged a metal cutlery knife into his face on Saturday.
One said: “Last time he got it in the eye it cost taxpayers nearly £200,000 and set him up for life here. He lives off the interest.
“This time, the knife missed Sutcliffe’s eye and bounced off his cheekbone – there was a lot of blood. Half an inch higher and he’d be blind.
“He has made it quite clear that he would be looking at taking legal action for what happened.”
Sutcliffe, who got 20 life sentences in 1981 for murdering 13 women, was set upon in a canteen at the top security Berkshire hospital. The Sun told on Monday how Sureda, 41 – jailed in 2000 for strangling his mother – lunged at his right eye screaming: “You f*****g raping murdering bastard.”
It was the fourth attack on hated Sutcliffe, and the third attempt to blind him.
The Ripper’s previous pay-out came as an out-of-court settlement after knife killer Ian Kay, 38, stabbed him with a pen in his left eye.
It dwarfed compensation paid to Sutcliffe’s victims. Mum-of-three Maureen Long, who survived his attack with a hammer and knife, got just £8,500.
Until recently, Sutcliffe’s Dorchester ward housed only elderly or nonviolent patients who were not considered a threat to him.
The insider said: “A few months ago, Sureda would not have been allowed there.
Dangerous
“But bosses changed the system and younger, more dangerous patients came in.
“Sutcliffe wasn’t happy. His fears he might be attacked again proved founded.
“With a good lawyer I guess we won’t have a leg to stand on.”
Sureda is due to be quizzed by Thames Valley Police later this week.