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The Yorkshire Ripper’s old Broadmoor boombox has gone on sale – for £7,000.
The garish stereo – adorned with a crude self-portrait of evil former owner Peter Sutcliffe – is up for offers on a US crime memorabilia site.
Sutcliffe, who died of Covid-19 at 74 in November, had the portable sound system in the late 1980s while held in the secure Berkshire hospital.
The source who revealed the macabre sale said: “Sutcliffe was a big pop fan but having this in your house would mean anything but easy listening.”
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The killer, a fan of Neil Young and U2, emblazoned the CD/cassette player with a cartoon-style image of himself surrounded by a crescent moon, a star and black spirals on the top in black marker.
He dated his handiwork as September 5 1987 – six years after his trial – and added his initials PWS.
He also scrawled the message “hands off” in an apparent warning to fellow patients.
On the back the monster had written a quote from US ad guru William Bernbach which begins: “Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature… what compulsion drive a man, what instincts dominate his action.”
Lorry driver Sutcliffe’s horrific actions led to him being given 20 concurrent life sentences after killing at least 13 women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980.
Supernaught, the website selling the antiquated music player, has a long history of trading his former possessions.
Predator Sutcliffe was said to have had a wide-ranging taste in music including reggae, Mozart, The Who, the Eurythmics and Joan Baez.
His vile and infamous crimes also inspired some bands including punks Siouxsie and the Banshees, who wrote lyrics about the killer on their track Night Shift.
A road safety campaigner has dedicated her MBE[1] to the memory of her eight-year-old son who died in a crash on a smart motorway.
Meera Naran’s son Dev was killed in May 2018 after a lorry hit his grandfather’s car on the hard shoulder of the M6 which was being used by moving traffic.
Since his death, Ms Naran, who is from Leicester, has dedicated her time to improving the smart motorway system and played a key role in the government’s new 18-point safety plan.
She also helped with updates to the Highway Code around motorway driving and successfully lobbied the government for a £5million road education campaign – the first phase of which has been rolled out.
Her MBE was for her services to road safety.
She told the BBC: “I’m accepting this in the memory of my son, Dev, and for me it’s about continuing to focus on my campaign, which is safer drivers on safer roads.
“The first person I actually wanted to tell was Dev and it was so hard because he’s not here.
“We were always each other’s cheerleaders – it’s really hard.”
She said that she was “honoured and humbled” for her hard work to be recognised “especially in memory of Dev”.
“Grief is all-consuming…and it is devastating. If allowed, it can consume you. But I always believed in turning that into something positive by helping to save the lives of others. That’s what keeps me going,” Ms Naran said in a statement posted by De Montfort University[3] where she is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy.
“My campaigning voice has been motivated by all the unspent love I have for Dev. If he was here, he would be getting all that love. It would be his. But instead, I am using it for road safety.”
Reflecting on her campaigning she explained that it was her “determination” from the very beginning which helped her push for changes.
However, Ms Naran said: “I’m just really pleased it has got me where we are today, but obviously it comes with the sadness of losing my baby.
She added: “Until we achieve zero deaths, I will not be able to say that I have succeeded.”
A smart motorway is a section of a motorway that uses traffic management methods to increase capacity and reduce congestion in busy areas.
These methods could include utilising the hard shoulder as a running lane and using variable speed limits to control the flow of traffic.
But there have been questions over their safety after fatal accidents involving stationary cars being hit from behind.
In April the government announced that no more smart motorways without hard shoulders will be able to open without additional safety measures put in place.
A road safety campaigner has dedicated her MBE to her eight-year-old son who was killed in a smart motorway collision.
Meera Naran told the PA news agency the first person she wanted to tell about her award was her son, Dev, who died after a lorry struck his grandfather’s Toyota Yaris on the M6 in May 2018.
Ms Naran, from Leicester, has been awarded an MBE for her services to road safety after playing an instrumental role in the development and adoption of the Government’s £500 million 18-point road safety plan for smart motorways.
The 37-year-old also helped with the inclusion of vital updates to the Highway Code around motorway driving and successfully campaigned for the Government’s £5 million road education drive.
Speaking to PA about her MBE, Ms Naran said her campaigning is her “purpose and it keeps me going”.
She said: “I’m just so honoured and truly humbled to be recognised for my work in road safety in this way.
“I’m accepting this in the memory of my son, Dev, and for me it’s about continuing to focus on my campaign, which is safer drivers on safer roads.
“You never expect to outlive your child. It’s unimaginable grief that can be all-consuming.
“But I’ve chosen to use my grief to change it into something positive and save the lives of others.
“It’s my purpose and it keeps me going.”
The honour comes just months after Highways England had to accelerate an action plan amid growing concern over all lane running (ALR) smart motorways – which involve the hard shoulder being converted into a running lane – following several fatal accidents involving stationary vehicles being hit from behind.
The Government-owned company, which has described smart motorways as “the safest roads in the country” with a lower number of fatalities per distance than conventional motorways, now aims to complete retrofitting the Stopped Vehicle Detection (SVD) radar system six months earlier than planned.
It said 15 people were killed on motorways without a permanent hard shoulder in 2019, up from 11 in 2018.
But Labour’s shadow transport secretary, Jim McMahon, told MPs in April that a stocktake found 63 people had lost their lives in the last five years and the radar technology does not spot broken-down vehicles 35% of the time.
Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, pointed out: “In the period 2015 to 2019 there were 39 fatalities on smart motorways but there were also 368 fatalities on regular motorways.”
Outlining her plans for the future, Ms Naran continued: “The next phase of my campaign has already begun and it will focus around further education and collaboration with other stakeholders – such as the police and road safety organisations.
“For far too long we’ve accepted five people dying every day and approximately 60 people seriously injured (every day) on our roads in the UK.
“Road deaths are preventable and we really need to change our mindset and culture that this is acceptable and that road deaths are inevitable.
“Safety comes first and we all need to work together to mitigate those risks from both our roads and from unsafe driving.
“It’s everyone’s responsibility, not just the Government.
“This year, I am working on pulling together all leaders in road safety to make this happen.
“Safer drivers on safer roads is exactly what we need to focus on.”
Ms Naran expressed her sadness that she could not tell Dev about her award.
She told PA: “The first person I actually wanted to tell was Dev and it was so hard because he’s not here.
“We were always each other’s cheerleaders – it’s really hard.
“I can’t wait to tell Neel (Dev’s brother) though.”
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