Memoirs ban likely
NZPA-Reuter London The British police may be barred from publishing their memoirs after a storm over a retired police chief who sold his story of the hunt for the “Yorkshire Ripper,” said Government sources yesterday. Ronald Gregory, former Chief Constable of west Yorkshire, was paid a reputed £40,000 (594,400) by the “Mail On Sunday” news-
paper for a serialisation which began at the weekend. The sources said that Cabinet Ministers from Mrs Margaret Thatcher down were appalled by what they were privately calling the “blood money” deal. They would look at ways to stop it happening again, they said, including a possible clause in police officers’ contracts forbid-
ding sales of memoirs. Families of the 13 women killed by the “Ripper,” Peter Sutcliffe, jailed for life in 1981, were particularly incensed because they blame Mr Gregory’s bungling for the fact that it took five years to catch the mass murderer. Mrs Thatcher is expected to tell Parliament of her revulsion over the sale of Mr Gregory’s story.
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