Stephen Tompkinson

A new ITV drama, which will air in September, will chronicle Peter Sutcliffe's journey as the police hunt unfolds. Sutcliffe, a serial killer who lived in Yorkshire in the Seventies and Eighties, will explore the women she had assaulted in the Long Shadow. Sutcliffe murdered 13 people and attempted to murder seven more before his capture in 1981, when he was sentenced to twenty consecutive life imprisonment sentences at HMP Frankland. Sutcliffe died at University Hospital of North Durham in November 2020 after refusing medical attention for COVID-19 while suffering with other underlying health conditions such as obesity and diabetes. The crime drama, which is made up of seven episodes, will air on ITV1 on Monday, September 25th.

Peter Sutcliffe's first victim's son has praised ITV for removing 'Yorkshire Ripper' from a new drama. Richard McCann (left), a child of Sutcliffe (inset) when he was five years old, begged on the Long Shadow (right) designers to delete the serial killer's moniker. The name only served to 'traumatize' families of victims,' according to Sutcliffe, because it represented the exact ways used by Sutcliffe to murder and injure them. Following criticism from families of those killed by the killer, screenwriter George Kay decided to rename the writer.

EXCLUSIVE: As shoplifting incidents rise by more than a quarter in a year, shopkeepers around the UK are suffering from an epidemic of robbery amid the cost-of-living crisis. In a'stealing to order' case compared to the county lines heroin issue, small gangs are 'hitting' stores. According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), reported retail sales in ten of the UK's biggest cities have increased by 27%, and in some, by 68 percent. MailOnline visited popular independent shops in London, Birmingham, and the North East this week to see how businesses are being targeted. During a distraction robbery, one trader lost £100,000 worth of jewelry and cash, while another woman flashed her breasts at him after stealing goods. After widely published messages on TikTok and Snapchat two weeks ago, JD Sports has been at the center of the shoplifting storm this month, encouraging yobs to wear balaclavas and gloves and 'rob JD Sports' on Oxford Street at 3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. Other supermarkets, including John Lewis, Waitrose Tesco, Sainsbury's, and Boots, are now offering bodycams and training to discourage violent criminals from attacking others. Here's a look at what MailOnline learned when investigating the scourge of shoplifting.