Outwardly maintaining a respectable existence, Emily
Jackson lived with her husband, Sydney, and three children in Churwell,
west of Leeds.
Sutcliffe's assaults on Rogulsky, Smelt and Tracey Browne
were puzzling random attacks on women but not regarded in the same mould
as the murder of Wilma McCann in Leeds or indeed of Joan Harrison in
Preston. Wilma's killing was the first linked Ripper murder and was
probably motivated by Tracey's desire to rob her, a prostitute nearly at
home after a night on the town, with extreme violence, rather than a
planned commencement of a series of ritual murders. Harrison was also
robbed.
Barbara Booth's Jamaican boy friend /pimp left the house from where she
conducted her business, so she could have a pre-arranged short time with a
punter and she and her son became his next victims. Clearly this was a
premeditated murder. It is very likely that Tracey knew the boy friend
because he planted the knife that he used on Wilma firmly in Barbara's
skull. This was a clear link to the McCann murder. The speed with which
Dick Holland got a confession from the berserk and disturbed Mark Rowntree
was the probable reason for Tracey's next determined action. The first
hammer attack on a prostitute.
It is likely that Emily Jackson knew Tracey and had been with him before
and now she was soliciting in her usual pitch outside the well known
prostitute pub, the Gaity in Chapletown where she lingered with him
observed by her friend. Tracey, the sexually perverted Irish criminal pimp
was well known to many prostitutes in the area, probably the best known
spot for a quick bout of sex. He was unafraid to be seen with his victim
whom he picked up to murder in order to sicken the police, whom he
despised with a passion. He knew they would get someone for it.
The scene of Emily Jackson's killing in Leeds
Prostitution is a business unfamiliar to most people except those who
participate in it. It is confined to a handful of pubs and a few streets
where the prostitutes stand or walk alone or in small groups usually
wearing short skirts or low cut tops and who return glances and will stop
and chat a total stranger or turn their heads when a kerb crawler passes
hoping he will stop. There are usually pimps lurking in the background or
keeping tabs on their girls, not to protect them but more commonly to
exploit them. Some prostitutes work alone and this can leave them
vulnerable also.
"I knew at that moment that we were dealing with
an extraordinary man."
Chief Superintendent Dennis Hoban, on looking at the
victim.
The police vice squad know all of them. The business is
illegal and they live in fear of arrest at all times. Emily walked with
him the short distance to the alleyway at Manor street 800 yards from the
Gaiety where Tracey saw all was quiet and they entered it to do the
business. She was conned into a sex act by the calculating and jocular
psychopath, Tracey, whose business was throwing down a challenge to the
Leeds Constabulary.
He struck her down when her back was turned and quickly
dragged her further into a dark cul de sac. Then he stabbed her 51 times
in all. Police never revealed the full extent of her injuries but a piece
of timber was rammed between her legs and she lay on her back with her
legs apart and her body covered by her own coat. Tracey left his boot
print stamped on her thigh as an extra clue for the police. He knew her
husband would be the no 1 suspect.
It was shortly after this, when the alert went out for the
well described Irishman that Tracey voluntarily returned to Ireland and
all his subsequent murders were done by commuting from Ireland for each
job. Initially it was thought that the suspect Irishman was driving the
Land Rover but my information is that it was traced but clearly the
Irishman was not. The proximity of the murder site to the pick up site
would suggest that he would be unlikely to stop so close had they been
driving.
Peter Sutcliffe's statement of how he did this murder is so out of touch
with the facts that I don't wish to comment on them except to say that his
statement was prompted and written by detective John Boyle who did know
the injuries and led Sutcliffe with the statement. Boyle was also the
detective who had eliminated Sutcliffe so many times. He must have known
Sutcliffe was spinning a yarn.
His story of looking under the bonnet of his car is far-fetched and as
with all his confessions they are more reminiscent of his clearly
corroborated attacks over and over again.
'The well-described stocky bearded Irishman seen with Emily
Jackson was never traced. Mrs Jackson was never seen alive again and her van
lay parked in the Gaiety car park to which she never returned. This man was
always believed to be her killer by the police and his description is quite
different to Peter Sutcliffe. This man or a similarly described man was
observed at the scene of two subsequent Ripper murders. These fact along with
many others shows that Peter Sutcliffe didn't commit the murder of Emily
Jackson.'
