Peter Sutcliffe’s brother says he has still not heard from the serial killer’s former wife, a year after begging her to tell him about the will.
Mick Sutcliffe, 71, claims he has been kept in the dark since the Yorkshire Ripper’s death a year ago this Saturday (November 13).
The notorious murderer died from Covid-19 in a Durham hospital aged 74.
The hospital is three miles away from HMP Frankland, where Sutcliffe was serving a whole-life term for 13 murders.
Former wife Sonia, 70, appears to still be living in the marital home.
She was this week spotted taking a trip to a bank in the centre of Bradford, West Yorkshire. Her former husband owned half the house, which is now thought to be worth £300,000.
Mick, who is housebound with severe lung disease, said: “In all this time I’ve never heard from Sonia.
“She was the executor of the estate so she was in charge of everything and told us nothing.
“I have tried to get in touch with her to find out information, from the funeral to the will, but she’s not told me anything at all.
“I don’t think I’ll hear from her at all now.
“We’ve not spoken for years and it looks like she’s not going to start now. It was frustrating. I was really angry after he died but I now realise that’s how it is.”
Mick, speaking from his home in Bingley, West Yorks, said he will spend a moment on Saturday to reflect on the victims and said he hopes they can now find some “peace after his death”.
He added: “After he died it took me a while to get out of the routine, he would call me like clockwork every Monday.
“The phone would ring, and I’d think, ‘That’s our Peter’ and then it would dawn on me that he was dead.
“He’s called me once a week ever since he went inside, so it was a hard habit to shake.
"But with all my health problems in the past year, being in and out of hospital, and with Covid, there has been enough distraction to not think too much about it.
"I didn’t even realise his anniversary was coming up, till my partner told me.
“I won’t be doing anything to mark it, I’ll probably just have a few words and say: ‘Ey up, Peter, it’s been a year.”
The Yorkshire Ripper murdered 13 women between 1975 and 1980.
At the time of his death he was suffering from pneumonia, diabetes and heart disease as well as Covid-19.
Mick said he divided his brother’s ashes in two and sent them by post to two people Sutcliffe considered friends.
