A mother and her slightly apprehensive looking daughter wait on Paddington station's busy and noisy concourse preparing to make a journey westward bound. Whilst the little girl clutches her beloved woven companion her mother takes the travelling bag on her shoulder and newspapers for the journey in her arm. I have been able to make out that the newspaper in view is The Mirror and having researched the headline for the day I can state that it reads 'WHAT THE RIPPER TOLD HIS WIFE'. There is also a picture of Peter William Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, on his wedding day. This story was being covered by the paper, and every other one for that matter, as his trial for the murder of thirteen women and attacks to a further ten had started the previous day, the verdict is now history off course and I suppose at the time of writing during the COVID pandemic has an added irony as Sutcliffe died from the virus on 13.10.20 having refused prison hospital treatment
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