Pictured: Peter Sutcliffe – now known by the surname Coonan – underwent laser eye surgery at a cost of £2,000 to the NHS
The Yorkshire Ripper’s sight has been saved after a £2,000 laser eye surgery was paid for by the NHS.
Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe was escorted out of jail for the procedure to correct his vision.
Sutclife, 71, told friends that he was delighted with the outcome of the treatment, and that he is now able to watch television and write letters.
Neil Jackson, whose mother Emily was murdered by Sutcliffe in 1976, was angered by the £2,000 op.
‘They should have let him go blind. He never had any pity on anyone so why should society bend over backwards to make him happy?’, Neil, 59, told The Sun.
Sutcliffe was locked up for life after killing 13 women, and lost the sight in his left eye during an attack in 1997.
His laser eye surgery comes after two years of treatment that has cost the taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds.
The killer was taken from his cell at Frankland Jail, near Durham, to have the procedure carried out at Sunderland Eye Infirmary.
Peter Sutcliffe, with his head covered by a blanket, being escorted to Dewsbury Magistrates Court to be charged with murder on January 6, 1981
Pictured: HMP Frankland in Durham, where Peter Sutcliffe – now Coonan – is held
Speaking to The Sun, a source added: ‘They were not taking any chances and the total cost of the operation to get him to the unit would have been really high.
‘He was unsteady on his feet and vision was very blurred straight after it happened, so he had to be helped around.’
It was revealed earlier this month that Sutcliffe had terrified psychiatrist Daphne Sasieni to death by threatening to stab her in the eye with a pen – just a day before she died.
Peter Sutcliffe – who goes by the surname Coonan – is now aged 71 and being held in men’s Category A HMP Frankland in Durham.
He murdered his victims between 1975 and 1980 before being arrested on January 2, 1981.
The former lorry driver from Bradford was jailed for life in May of that year after being described by the judge as ‘an unusually dangerous man’.
The killer was taken from his cell at Frankland Jail, near Durham, to have the procedure carried out at Sunderland Eye Infirmary (pictured).