ITV’s new drama The Long Shadow has just started streaming, and it promises viewers a spine-tingling journey into the police hunt to capture the Yorkshire Ripper, aka Peter Sutcliffe.
Sutcliffe murdered thirteen women and attacked countless more during his rampage of terror in the 1970s – and among his victims was mother-of-two Emily Jackson, who died in 1976. She had turned to sex work to raise money for her family, and was brutally attacked by Sutcliffe; he stabbed her more than fifty times with a screwdriver and bludgeoned her with a hammer.
