The driver in this Ford Transcontinental was Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper The police coming regularly to our office to check the drivers records to see who had been in the area following a murder A young DC Eddie came regularly who I understand went onto being a very senior officer. His parents had the fish & chip shop near the Variety Club. So they were correct in suspecting a lorry driver. One or two of our drivers were near the murder scenes, but one in particular was every time, until when they checked next murder he was in North Scotland, or he would have been a suspect. One of our drivers from Ferryhill area who drove a D series artic, & often gave a lift at dinner time to girls in our office to Smart & Brown’s canteen was a masked ■■■■■■. He had broken down in Southampton with a minor problem & was towed to the local Ford agents and as they hadn’t got the park had to stay from the afternoon until the next day and was caught with a mask on after committing a ■■■■ and they really thought they had got the ripper as in his cab they found ■■■■■■■■■■■ where he had attacked the photos with a knife and thrown darts at the naked women. I think he was a Laurie Petch
