Liza Williams: Self - Narrator and Interviewer

Quotes 

• [talking about Roundhay Park, where he was the pathologist at the murder scene of Irene Richardson] 

  Liza Williams - Interviewer : How unusual is it for a body to be found in a place like this, in a park?

  Michael Green : It's not all that unusual. I used to joke that I wished that people wouldn't take their dogs for a walk on Sunday morning, because of the number of times I was called out over the years because a dog-walker had found a body in the park.

• [talking about the murder of Jayne MacDonald] 

  Jeremy Thompson : She was described by the police in their rather crude and charmless way as an "innocent" victim.

  Liza Williams - Interviewer : Because the implication is that a prostitute *isn't* innocent? That they somehow deserve what happened?

  Jeremy Thompson : Even *we* at the time, I think, were a bit taken aback by the police use of the term "innocent" victim.

  Liza Williams - Interviewer : They were blamed?

  Jeremy Thompson : Yes, it was almost... they blamed the prostitutes... "Well, what can you expect? Of course you're going to get murdered, you're working the streets."

• [pathologist Michael Green examined the injuries on Ripper survivors] 

  Michael Green : I, by chance, was asked to go and see Roguslky, and then again, by chance, I was asked to see Olive Smelt. Both of them had been struck with a ball-peen hammer to the back of the head. The injury was distinctive.

  Liza Williams - Interviewer : So, after the first murders, you had already noticed a link with Anna and Olive's attack, but the police didn't agree?

  Michael Green : I could see the link. The injuries looked similar. I had my worries, but the top brass were a bit slow to pick it up, I think, would be a fair comment.

• John Domaille : I talked to every prostitute in Yorkshire in some depth about what she should do and what she should not do, and how she should stay alive. She should stay alive best by stopping being a prostitute. A lady who wishes to be a prostitute and walks the streets is risking a lot.

  Liza Williams - Interviewer : What about all the men who were kerb-crawling?

  John Domaille : [laughing]  You couldn't arrest everybody who kerb-crawled in Leeds. You'd fill up all the police stations in the north of England. You couldn't do it, I mean, just couldn't. And you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between those that were *really* kerb-crawling to do business, and those that were just kerb-crawling to see what it was like, what was going on, "This is all a bit intriguing, isn't it? What's happening, what do they do?". And there's a hell of a lot of that.

• [talking about the Special Notices concerning the Ripper murders which West Yorkshire Police sent to other police forces in the UK and abroad; this describes each of the victims] 

  Joan Smith : It was incredibly shocking to read because the phrase "loose morals" came up all the time - even the women that they didn't think worked as prostitutes. Olive Smelt went to the pub without her husband, and that was an indication, apparently, that she had loose morals.

  Liza Williams - Interviewer : [voiceover]  I find this incredible. In order to make Olive fit the police's profile of a Ripper victim, they smeared her character.

• [Tracy Browne talks about the striking similarity between the photofit of her own attacker and the one that Marilyn Moore has produced of her attacker] 

  Tracy Browne : So my mum and I went straight to the police station and we were met by this young constable. And we just said "This is the man. This is the man that attacked me." And he went "Oh, having fun and games today, are we? It's the joke of the day, is it?"

  Liza Williams - Interviewer : And did he then include your attack in the series? Did he link it to the other cases that had happened?

  Tracy Browne : No. As far as they were concerned, he was just targeting prostitutes and not people like me. It was a big deal. Could have been wrapped up there and then, but they still didn't take it seriously. And because of this, all these people have been attacked and been murdered.