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Synopsis:
The Yorkshire Ripper was one of the most brutal real-life crime stories of the 1970s and ‘80s as killer Peter Sutcliffe cut a swathe through the country, murdering 13 women. He was caught in 1981 and sentenced to several life sentences, but the police hunt for him was criticized for corruption.
Now Channel 4 revisits the story, based on three of the four books in British novelist David Peace’s ('The Damned United') “Red Riding Quartet,” (Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty Three).
In the second episode of the three, directed by Marsh and set in 1980, The "Ripper" has tyrannised Yorkshire for six long years, and with the local police failing to make any progress, the Home Office sends in Manchester officer Peter Hunter (Considine) to review the investigation. Having previously made enemies in the Yorkshire force while investigating a shooting incident in 1974, Hunter finds himself increasingly isolated when his version of events challenges their official line on "The Ripper".
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