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Shop assistant killed by prostitute killer Yorkshire Ripper

A stock image of a shoe department in a shop
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During the period when truck driver Peter Sutcliffe preyed on prostitutes, there was little pressure to capture their killer. That changed with the killing of 16-year-old Jayne MacDonald.

She had just started her first job, in a shoe department, and had gone out dancing. In the early hours of Sunday morning, Sutcliffe struck her three times with a hammer and repeatedly stabbed her.

Children found her body a few hours later. Now everyone wanted to capture the killer of Jayne…