Trainee police officer Bob Hydes sat in the classroom with other probationers, eager to finish the course and get out to do the job.It was May 1980. As the lecture drew to a close, the inspector at the front of the room turned suddenly sombre. 'The biggest manhunt we have in our country now is for the Yorkshire Ripper,' he said, gazing intently at the rookie officers. 'It may even be one of you in here that finally gets him.'Just seven months later, PC 358 Bob Hydes was that man. On Friday January 2, 1981, he arrested the UK's most wanted criminal, who, over six years of brutal violence between 1975 and 1981, murdered 13 women and attacked seven more.
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