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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ripper-loses-appeal-over-sentence.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has lost a challenge against an order that he can never be released" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-ripper-loses-appeal-over-sentence.jpg" alt="Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has lost a challenge against an order that he can never be released"/></a></p>
<p>Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has lost a challenge against an order that he can never be released.</p>
<p>A High Court judge ruled last year that the serial killer of 13 women must serve a &#8220;whole life&#8221; tariff.</p>
<p>Sutcliffe, who is now known as Peter Coonan, had his appeal against that order rejected by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, Mr Justice Calvert-Smith and Mr Justice Griffith Williams at the Court of Appeal.</p>
<p>The former lorry driver, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, was convicted at the Old Bailey in 1981.</p>
<p>Sutcliffe, now 64, received 20 life terms for the murder of 13 women and the attempted murder of others in Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.</p>
<p>Lord Judge said the &#8220;passage of time does not make the appellant&#8217;s account at trial of how he came to commit these offences any more likely to be credible now than it was then&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;We are not, of course, suggesting that the man who perpetrated these crimes was in any ordinary sense of the words &#8216;normal&#8217; or &#8216;average&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;sheer abnormality of his actions themselves suggest some element of mental disorder&#8221;, he said. But he added: &#8220;There is, however, no reason to conclude that the appellant&#8217;s claim that he genuinely believed that he was acting under divine instruction to fulfill God&#8217;s will carries any greater conviction now than it did when it was rejected by the jury.&#8221;</p>
<p>An examination of the &#8220;entire catalogue of the offences as a whole demonstrates that this was criminal conduct at the extreme end of horror&#8221;, he said.</p>
<p>The three judges ruled that the interests of justice required &#8220;nothing less&#8221; than a whole life order.</p>
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