Don't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe died of coronavirus after refusing to shield as a vulnerable patient in prison, an inquest into his death heard.
The coroner said he hoped the death of serial killer Sutcliffe would allow his victims to "better rest in peace" as he recorded a death of natural causes.
The 74-year-old inmate had been warned he was a prisoner vulnerable to coronavirus by the authorities at Frankland Prison, today's inquest in Crook, County Durham, heard. READ MORE: Ian Brady, Dennis Nilsen, the Yorkshire Ripper and me - what Kerry Daynes has learned from meeting Britain's most hated men He declined to be shielded behind bars and died in