Anyone of my generation who grew up on my side of Leeds will be glad to hear that Sutcliffe wont ever be free. He trashed many lives, even now his crimes cast echoes through our lives. If only the Police had the knowledge the have now back then.
What is sad is that many of the pubs that punctuated his area also punctuated many others. The Perservierance had police upstairs watching traffic heading in to the Lumb Lane area, The Hayfield stood but yards from where Jayne Macdonald met her end, The Gaiety was where one of his victims husbands waited. All demolished now.
These pubs, along with The Fforde Greene were also amongst the first pubs we used as young drinkers, they were the druggy pubs, pubs where people of different race met, pubs where outcasts were welcome.
The Leeds of my youth is gone.
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