{"id":181188,"date":"2023-10-30T18:44:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=181188"},"modified":"2023-10-30T18:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:44:46","slug":"son-of-yorkshire-rippers-first-victim-shares-emotional-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/son-of-yorkshire-rippers-first-victim-shares-emotional-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Yorkshire Ripper&apos;s first victim shares emotional statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>I waited for my mum to pick me up at the bus stop&#8230; I never saw her again: Heartbroken son of Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe&#8217;s first victim Wilma McCann shares emotional statement on 48th anniversary of his mother&#8217;s murder<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Richard McCann was just five when he searched for his mum with his sister Sonia<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It later emerged Wilma had been the first of 13 victims of the Yorkshire Ripper\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The son of the Yorkshire Ripper\u2019s first victim Wilma McCann revealed how he remained haunted by the circumstances of his mother\u2019s murder as he posted a poignant message on the anniversary of her death.<\/p>\n<p>Richard McCann was just five years old when he walked to a bus stop with his sister Sonia, then seven, to search for his mother on a dark and cold October morning in 1975 after she had failed to come home.<\/p>\n<p>But Wilma, 28, never arrived and instead the siblings were collected by a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Their mother\u2019s body had been discovered just 100 yards away from the family home in Leeds after she was attacked with a hammer and stabbed 15 times in the chest, neck and abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>It later emerged Wilma had been the first of 13 victims of one of Britain\u2019s most notorious serial killers &#8211; Peter Sutcliffe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/17\/77184257-12689551-image-m-214_1698686666065.jpg\" height=\"975\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wilma, 28, (pictured) was discovered just 100 yards away from the family home in Leeds after she was attacked with a hammer and stabbed 15 times in the chest, neck and abdomen<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/17\/77184229-12689551-image-a-215_1698686680955.jpg\" height=\"824\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pictured, Peter Sutcliffe killed 13 women during his spree, including Wilma, and was dubbed &#8216;The Yorkshire Ripper&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/17\/77184273-12689551-image-a-216_1698686686816.jpg\" height=\"214\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Richard, now 53, relived the events that would change his life forever in an emotional message on social media posted around 7am.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on X, which was formerly Twitter, he said: \u2018Always a difficult morning on 30th October. 48 years ago, right now, my sister Sonia and I were sat at the local bus stop waiting for mum to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We never saw her again.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He accompanied the post with a heartbreaking image from ITV1\u2019s harrowing true-crime drama The Long Shadow which focuses on Sutcliffe\u2019s victims and the loved ones they left behind.<\/p>\n<p>The heartbreaking scene was recreated in the opening episode of the seven-part series which concludes tonight.<\/p>\n<p>It shows Richard and Sonia dressed in duffle coats over their pyjamas as they waited in vain for their mother to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Richard added in his post: \u2018It wasn\u2019t light as dramatised on ITV recently. It was cold and dark. RIP Mam.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He added a hashtag spelling out the words \u2018her name was Wilma McCann.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Richard, who works as an inspirational speaker and presentation skills coach, described the moment in his bestselling book about his \u2019stolen childhood\u2019 called Just a Boy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/17\/35631974-12689551-A_selection_of_newspaper_front_pages_from_January_5_1981_the_day-a-217_1698686703952.jpg\" height=\"837\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A selection of newspaper front pages from January 5, 1981, the day Sutcliffe made his first appearance in court,\u00a0where he was charged with 13 counts of murder<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/17\/11531934-12689551-A_composite_of_12_of_the_13_victims_murdered_by_Sutcliffe_Victim-a-218_1698686721861.jpg\" height=\"691\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A composite of 12 of the 13 victims murdered by Sutcliffe. Victims are: (top row, left to right) Wilma McCann, Emily Jackson, Irene Richardson, Patricia Atkinson; (middle row, left to right) Jayne McDonald, Jean Jordan, Yvonne Pearson, Helen Rytka; (bottom row, left to right) Vera Millward, Josephine Whitaker, Barbara Leach, Jacqueline Hill<\/p>\n<p>He outlined how the police officer came to collect him and Sonia on the fateful morning and took them to Beckett\u2019s Park Children\u2019s Home.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u2018As we came in with the policeman, the staff seemed to be expecting us.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We were given cups of hot chocolate and taken to a room with a television. After a while, once we were settled in comfortably, the policeman came back in to see us. He felt more like a friend by now.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He sat down and said he had something to tell us. \u201cYour mum has been taken to heaven\u201d, he said. \u201cYou won\u2019t be seeing her any more\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy had a devastating impact on the siblings\u2019 lives which Richard said was compounded by the attitudes of police as many of the victims, like his mother, were sex workers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/17\/75864237-12689551-On_Monday_a_new_ITV_drama_about_the_heinous_crimes_of_serial_kil-a-219_1698686736472.jpg\" height=\"750\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>ITV released a harrowing drama about the heinous crimes of serial killer Sutcliffe called The Long Shadow<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/17\/35631244-12689551-Sutcliffe_under_a_blanket_arriving_at_Dewsbury_Magistrates_Court-a-220_1698686781173.jpg\" height=\"389\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sutcliffe, under a blanket, arriving at Dewsbury Magistrates Court charged with the murder of 13 women and attempted murder of seven others in 1981\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He wrote of his mother\u2019: \u2018She was described as a prostitute, but that wasn\u2019t the mum I knew.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018So I tried to block out how she had really died. All of us did not talk about it. We were not encouraged to.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When I went to live with my dad and his new girlfriend we were told to call her mum. We didn\u2019t go to my mother\u2019s grave until I was 16.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Tragically Sonia was found dead aged 39 in her Leeds home just days before Christmas 2007, after taking her own life.<\/p>\n<p>She had suffered years of torment following her mother\u2019s murder and had been battling alcohol addiction in a rehabilitation centre.<\/p>\n<p>Two years before her death Sonia &#8211; who has been described as Sutcliffe\u2019s final victim &#8211; told a BBC documentary: \u2018I think most people remember the number 13 &#8211; for the number of women he killed. But what about the children &#8211; there\u2019s 25 of them and no one remembers them.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in 2020, Richard criticised the way police had described his mother and some of Sutcliffe\u2019s other victims.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018My mum was more than just a \u201cgood time girl\u201d or a \u201cwoman of loose morals\u201d, as she was described by the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I hate the things that they said about some of the women, including my mum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/17\/75987915-12689551-Sutcliffe_is_taken_to_Frimley_Park_Hospital_from_Broadmoor_Hospi-a-221_1698686789710.jpg\" height=\"697\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sutcliffe is taken to Frimley Park Hospital from Broadmoor Hospital for eye blindness treatment in September 2015<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/17\/35633418-12689551-Police_examine_the_common_land_where_Josephine_Whitaker_was_foun-a-222_1698686810745.jpg\" height=\"384\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Police examine the common land where Josephine Whitaker was found dead on May 14, 1979 in the midst of the Ripper&#8217;s killing spree<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s like they seem to forget the person behind that black and white mugshot that I hated for years.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Wilma\u2019s horrific murder came after Sutcliffe had attacked three women earlier that year.<\/p>\n<p>The women &#8211; Anna Rogulskyj, Olive Smelt and Tracy Browne &#8211; had all miraculously escaped with their lives.<\/p>\n<p>On the night of October 29, Wilma, a single mother-of-four, had said goodnight to her children and then headed out drinking.<\/p>\n<p>She was seen at four pubs before ending up in a drinking club which she was seen leaving after 1am looking for a lift home.<\/p>\n<p>Sutcliffe was passing in his car when he stopped to pick her up. He parked up at nearby playing fields where he savagely murdered Wilma before dumping her body &#8211; the start of a reign of terror which left women fearing to go out alone after dark.<\/p>\n<p>It was five years before Sutcliffe was caught after a chance encounter during a routine police patrol in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>In 1981 Sutcliffe was sentenced to a whole life order. He died aged 74 in Broadmoor Hospital in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Kept in chains until shortly before his death, an inquest revealed Sutcliffe had refused to be shielded before catching coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>It was only after Sutcliffe\u2019s death that West Yorkshire Police Chief Constable John Robins apologised to the victims\u2019 families on behalf of the force.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018On behalf of West Yorkshire Police, I apologise for the additional distress and anxiety caused to all relatives by the language, tone and terminology used by senior officers at the time in relation to Peter Sutcliffe\u2019s victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Such language and attitudes may have reflected wider societal attitudes of the day, but it was as wrong then as it is now. A huge number of officers worked to identify and bring Peter Sutcliffe to justice and it is a shame that their hard work was overshadowed by the language of senior officers used at the time, the effect of which is still felt today by surviving relatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Thankfully those attitudes are consigned to history.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12689551\/yorkshire-ripper-peter-sutcliffe-wilma-mccann-anniversary-richard-twitter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I waited for my mum to pick me up at the bus stop&#8230; I never saw her again: Heartbroken son of Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe&#8217;s first victim Wilma McCann shares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Son of Yorkshire Ripper&amp;apos;s first victim shares emotional statement - Hot World Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/son-of-yorkshire-rippers-first-victim-shares-emotional-statement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Son of Yorkshire Ripper&amp;apos;s first victim shares emotional statement - Hot World Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I waited for my mum to pick me up at the bus stop&#8230; 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