Patricia Atkinson Bradford 1977

Patricia, also known as Tina Atkinson aged 32 had the grave misfortune to meet Peter Sutcliffe the Yorkshire Ripper one night on the 23rd April 1977 after an evening at the Carlisle Pub. Originally thought to have been Sutcliffes third victim it is now up for debate since many more murders have been linked to him reaching back to the 1960s.

Tina invited him back to flat 3 at 9 Oaks Avenue Bradford where Sutcliffe hung up his coat and delivered four fatal blows with a claw hammer.After rearranging the body on the bed and covering her with a light sheet he left her barely alive to die overnight.
                                                                                                                                                                                                              An original view of the flats where Tina was murdered.

  

                                                                          

     The flats today: derelict and boarded up.