Police to quiz Ripper about 1970 killing

Press, 28 May 1981, Page 7

Police to quiz Ripper about 1970 killing

NZPA London The, Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, will be quizzed about the unsolved motorway murder of a schoolteacher, Barbara Mayo, more than 10 vears ago. > West Yorkshire detectives said yesterday they would also question him about two other unsolved attacks on girls in their area. As Sutcliffe starts his minimum 30 years sentence, detectives from other forces also want to interview him about other unsolved killings. But the murder in October, 1970, of Miss Mayo, a hitchhiker is top of the list. She was thumbing a lift up the Ml motorway from her home in Hammersmith, West London. Her body was later

found in a wood at Hucknell. Derbyshire. 2km from exit 29 oh the motorway. She had been strangled. Later that year, the police said they wanted to interview everyone of the 100.000 owners of Morris 1000 Travellers. Witnesses said Miss Mayo had been picked up in one. A senior police officer close to the Ripper Squad said yesterday: "We know Sutcliffe drove a Morris Minor, and we know he visited Sonia, his wife, while she was at college in London. "A Morris Minor was involved in the Mayo investigation and it is a question of tying up the dates. ’ "We shall be talking to him about this still unsolved

murder, and about other attacks in West Yorkshire.”

Detectives will probablv talk to Sutcliffe at the end of next month. Another attack under scrutiny is that on Yvonne Mysliwiec, aged 21, a reporter, who was clubbed over the head in Ilkley, near Bradford, in October, 1979. The police considered the Ripper might have been responsible, but later ruled out the. mass killer on that particular attack. Sutcliffe will also be questioned about a brutal attack on Caroline Tracey Browne, aged 14, at Silsden.- near Keighley, in August. 1975. A photofit picture issued then bore a striking resemblence to Sutcliffe. The attacker was described as hav-

ing a moustache and beard, frizzy hair, staring eyes and a thin'face.

The police said the attacker also suffered from hayfever, which also affects Sutcliffe. The officer also appealed to the public to search their memories again about the Geordie voice on the “I’m Jack” hoax tape. "Maybe they recognised the voice at the time but discounted it because they knew the person couldn't possibly have committed all the murders.” he said. The three hoax letters, posted in Sunderland to Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield, all had the left-hand side cut off, removing any fingerprint traces from the paper.