A COMMEMORATIVE plaque has been installed at the site where Peter Sutcliffe's final known victim was found to mark the 40th anniversary of her death.

Student Jacqueline Hill was killed by Sutcliffe on November 17, 1980 after he stalked her when she got off her bus stop.

She was heading back to her student halls in Headingley, in Leeds, at 9pm when the Bradford killer, dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, attacked and killed her.

Her body was found on wasteland the following day.

This morning women came to the site to remember her, and all the other victims of Sutcliffe.

They paid their respects and left flowers and reflected on the violence, fear and misogyny women were subjected to then and still today.

The blue plaque reads: "Sister, daughter, housemate, friend, fiancé, gentle and caring person, lovely kind girl, endearingly silly sense of humour, funny, clever, English student, Sunday School teacher, probation service volunteer, brought only goodness to the world, she was everything people wanted their daughter to be. Silver Girl."

Emma Dolan, who grew up in Headingley, officially installed the hand painted plaque this morning.

Emma said: "I had been doing some research into the effects on women of the Managed Area in Holbeck.

“I stumbled across a review style website where men would leave reviews of the women working on the streets there.

“One of these men had the username 'Yorkshire Ripper'.

“This sparked absolute outrage in me. The disrespect for the murdered women, mirrored by the disrespect for the women now.

“I thought, 'how has it come to this, 40 years later, and women in Leeds are still worth so little?'.

“I intended to make a plaque for all the women, but Jackie had the biggest effect on me.

“I was 14 at the time of her murder and my best friend and I would spend hours, hanging out, walking round the streets in Headingley, and why shouldn't we?

“I've thought about her for 40 years, every time I've passed the place. Finding out that her favourite song was Bridge Over Troubled Water, and her fiancé called her Silver Girl, was heart-breaking.

“I wanted to make a plaque for Jackie using only words from her family and friends, people to whom she wasn't another name attached to that grim grid of photographs constantly used beside his face, words about her as a person, not about him."

Sutcliffe, who was serving a life term for murdering 13 women across Yorkshire and the North West between 1975 and 1980, died on Nov 13 after a short battle with coronavirus.

Speaking to the BBC on behalf of Jacqueline's family, her sister Vivienne described her sister as a "gentle and caring" person.

She said: "Not a day goes by that we don't think of her.

"The impact her loss had, and still has, on our family, friends and anyone who knew her is immeasurable.

"As she would now be 60 had she survived, we have always wondered what her promising future would have been like."