Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe fears he will be murdered in his new top-security prison.

The serial killer who slaughtered 13 women has told his brother: “People will be out to get me. I’m going to have to watch my back.”

Sutcliffe was moved to tough Frankland prison in County Durham last week after ­officials ruled he no longer needs mental health treatment.

But Sutcliffe, 70, believes the switch from Broadmoor secure hospital where he spent 32 years will lead to him being murdered.

“I might be attacked and killed,” he said. “I fear for my life.”

Peter Sutcliffe has spent 32 years in Broadmoor (
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Sutcliffe’s terror is revealed to the Sunday People by his brother Carl, 58, who spoke to him shortly before he was moved.

Carl, who thinks Sutcliffe should have been hanged for his five-year reign of horror, revealed the killer has…

  • ADMITTED he did not need his medication in Broadmoor because there was nothing wrong with him.
  • MOANED about losing his cushy set-up at the psychiatric hospital, including being able to draw and paint.
  • NEVER showed any signs of mental instability during the years he was prowling the streets for victims.
  • NEVER apologised to Carl or his family for his evil crimes.
Carl Sutcliffe has made a series of startling revelations (
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Sutcliffe, who was convicted of 13 murders and seven attempted murders in 1981, lost his fight to remain in Broadmoor five days ago.

He was sent to the hospital in Berkshire in 1984 after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

A health tribunal ruled last December he no longer needs treatment for mental disorder.

The move to Frankland prison will save the taxpayer £250,000 a year.

But as the days counted down to the switch, Sutcliffe, who is serving a whole life sentence, made clear his fears to his brother.

Peter Sutcliffe with his mum, two brothers and sister

In a phone call from Broadmoor he told Carl: “I’m going to have to watch my back. I’ve loads of friends in Broadmoor but I’ll have to start again in prison.

“I’ll be looking over my shoulder all the time. People will be out to get me.

“I’m diabetic, I’ve got gallstones and I’m nearly blind. I’ve been in Broadmoor for over 30 years.

“I’ve got used to everybody and everybody’s got used to me. We’ve built up trust with each other.

“I’ll be locked in a cell for 23 hours a day instead of being able to walk around as I please. And I won’t be able to do my art.”

Broadmoor Entrance Gate 60 showing the famous Clocktower (
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It was the last ­conversation they had before the serial killer was moved to Category A Frankland where ­inmates include Soham child killer Ian Huntley.

Carl says he would talk to his brother every week – waiting at home in West Yorkshire for a phone call from Broadmoor on Wednesday evenings at 6.15pm.

But he temporarily ­ended contact with his brother
because of his whingeing.

Carl, a former car salesman, said: “I’m sick of his moaning about his life inside. He did kill 13 people. What does he want?

“I stopped taking his calls and agreed with the hospital he wouldn’t ring me any more.

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“It brings it all back every time I speak to him and I just want to get on with my life.”

Carl believes serial killers like his ­brother should be sentenced to death.

He said: “I’ve always had the view that people like him should be executed and I’ve told him so a few times.

"He didn’t respond to that. He probably did not want to hear that from me.

“I do think he should have been executed. He wouldn’t have had anything to worry about then.”

HMP Frankland Prison where Sutcliffe is being moved to (
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Sutcliffe, from Bradford, preyed on women across West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester between 1975 and 1980.

He usually beat them to death with a hammer before mutilating them.

Carl said: “I don’t think I can forgive him for what he’s done. Men hitting women is my pet hate, but to kill
them – and with a hammer? What he did was disgusting – despicable.”

During his trial, Sutcliffe claimed to have heard voices that ordered him to kill his victims.

The former gravedigger said the voice of God came to him from the headstone of a Polish man in a ­cemetery where he worked.

The back of the Sutcliffe family photo

Carl can still see that same cemetery from an upstairs window in his house.

He said: “All this carry-on about him being crazy, I don’t buy that.

"All them years before he was caught he acted normally, perfectly sane. You think he would’ve shown some signs of insanity.

“I spent a lot of time with him before he was convicted and he never mentioned hearing voices and I didn’t see him taking to himself once.

“I think it was just a ruse to get an easier life. I think he’s mentally ill when he wants to be – when it suits him.

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“He said to me he didn’t need the tablets they were giving him in Broadmoor – that there was nothing wrong with him.” Carl was a teenager living in a flat in Bingley, West Yorks, when Sutcliffe began killing.

At the age of 21, Carl discovered his beloved eldest brother was the Yorkshire Ripper.

He said: “I went to the library to look for jobs and I saw a man reading a paper that had a photograph of my brother’s house on the front page. That’s how I found out.”

All the family – including dad John, brother Mick and sisters Jane, Maureen and Anne – gathered in Maureen’s house in Bingley.

Carl said: “We were in total shock. Jane was so upset she had to be sedated.

The twelve of the 13 victims of Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe (
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"Once the shock wore off, I was angry. What he did was ­diabolical. I thought he was a really nice, great guy and a bloody fantastic big brother.

"He used to run my girlfriend home so the Ripper wouldn’t get her, and it was him all along. She was actually probably the safest woman on the planet.

“When I went to see him in prison, he just admitted it – all calm and relaxed. I felt let down.”

Sutcliffe’s mother Kathleen, died of a heart attack three years before the killer was caught.

Carl described their father John, who died in 2004 aged 81, as “a stoic Yorkshireman” who did not show emotion over the murders.

Peter Sutcliffe after his arrest (
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Carl said: “I don’t think he had any feelings about anything. He was never a dad. He spent all his time at work or at the pub.”

Middle brother Mick, 65, still speaks each week to Sutcliffe, who lost his right eye in an attack by an inmate in 1997.

Their sister Anne Sumner died from cancer in 2005.

Other sisters Jane and Maureen have nothing to do with the killer, who now uses the surname Coonan after their mum’s maiden name.

Carl said: “He’s never said sorry to any of us for what he put us through.

"We’ve had to live with it every day since. I can lip read ‘That’s the Ripper’s brother’ from 50 yards. It wears you out after a while.

“He’s been in Broadmoor being pampered while we’ve got to live in the real world with people pointing and staring.”

But Carl said he had not completely cut ties and expected to visit him in Frankland.

He added: “He’s still my brother at the end of the day.”

Yorkshire Ripper's new home

The Yorkshire Ripper’s new home at Frankland jail will come as a shock to him after 32 years in Broadmoor hospital.

Broadmoor houses around 200 male patients, most of whom suffer from severe mental illness.

Patients are not locked in their rooms at night if it is considered detrimental to their well-being. Sutcliffe’s brother Carl, who visited him five times, told the Sunday People: “They’re all pampered in there.

“They’ve got their own rooms – TVs, DVD players, all sorts of equipment. They are not locked in their rooms at night. They shut themselves in.

“When I visited him and walked round the corridors, there were all sorts of killers and axe murderers in there just walking around with no guards. It’s really strange.”

Broadmoor has the status of a Category B prison. Its mix of Victorian wards and modern additional buildings has been likened to a provincial hospital or a university campus.

Meanwhile HMP Frankland in County Durham is a Category A high-security jail that opened in 1980.

It houses more than 800 male prisoners including terrorists, murderers, rapists.

Many are serving life sentences, including Soham child killer Ian Huntley.