{"id":2499,"date":"2015-02-14T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T12:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2015\/02\/14\/yorkshire-ripper-peter-sutcliffe-enjoys-specially-arranged-baptism-service-in-broadmoor-after-becoming-a-jehovahs-witness\/"},"modified":"2015-02-14T12:49:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T12:49:53","slug":"yorkshire-ripper-peter-sutcliffe-enjoys-specially-arranged-baptism-service-in-broadmoor-after-becoming-a-jehovahs-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/yorkshire-ripper-peter-sutcliffe-enjoys-specially-arranged-baptism-service-in-broadmoor-after-becoming-a-jehovahs-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe &#8216;enjoys specially-arranged baptism service in Broadmoor after becoming a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2015\/02\/08\/0CC24FB3000005DC-2944388-Peter_Sutcliffe_who_was_jailed_for_murdering_13_women_was_recent-a-31_1423360749623.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"312\" align=\"right\" \/>Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, 68, was jailed for life for murdering 13 women<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Held at Broadmoor since being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Sutcliffe was befriended over the last 15 years by Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Reportedly attends bi-weekly bible study classes and practices the religion<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Has now been baptised in private room by two &#8216;brothers&#8217; in special service<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\">The Yorkshire Ripper has enjoyed a specially-arranged baptism service in Broadmoor after becoming a Jehovah&#8217;s witness.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\">Peter Sutcliffe, 68, who was jailed for murdering 13 women, was recently baptised in a pool in a private room at the high security hospital<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\">The serial killer has been a practicing Jehovah&#8217;s Witness for several years and holds bi-weekly bible study classes.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\">Earlier this month the Daily Mail reported on Sutcliffe&#8217;s cushy lifestyle in Broadmoor, where he eats chocolate, watches television and listens to music.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\">Despite being one of the country\u2019s most notorious serial killers he is allowed visitors four days a week &#8211; each of whom who can stay for up to four hours.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\">He is said to have money to spend in the psychiatric hospital\u2019s shop, and attends a ceramics workshop and twice-weekly Bible studies sessions.\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\">In 2010 MailOnline reported Sutcliffe had been befriended over the last 15 years by Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, who are emphatic that he now shows remorse for his crimes.\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\">The former trucker claimed he was on a divine mission to rid the streets of prostitutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\">The Sun on Sunday has now reported that two fellow Jehovah&#8217;s Witness brothers from a local Kingdom Hall carried out the baptism.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2944388<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, 68, was jailed for life for murdering 13 women Held at Broadmoor since being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia Sutcliffe was befriended over the last 15 years by Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses Reportedly attends&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}