Les Battersby star Bruce Jones spoke of having nightmares for months after finding the mutilated body of Peter Sutcliffe’s victim Jean Jordan in wasteland – and police thought he was the Yorkshire Ripper
Coronation Street star Bruce Jones lost his marriage after being investigated by police who thought he could be the Yorkshire Ripper.
The soap star, who played Wetherfield’s Les Battersby between 1997 and 2007, was treated as a suspect after he discovered the mutilated body of the Ripper’s victim, Jean Jordan, in 1977.
Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who died this morning aged 74 after contracting coronavirus, had brutally murdered the 20-year-old and dumped her body on an allotment in Manchester.
The mum of two, who was a sex worker, lived in Moss Side and had come across Sutcliffe in a fateful moment as he cruised for business in the red light district.
The pair haggled over a price before Jean directed her murderer to the wasteland on Princess Road, Chorlton.
It was there the Ripper struck, seizing a hammer left in one of the old nearby garages and raining down blows on Jean’s skull until she lay there lifeless.
