, vera millwa rd, pearson, helen ricker, vera millward, josephine whitaker, barbara leach, magritte wasmembers peter sutcliffe's name. how many remember theirs? what no one forgets from the time is the terror felt by women. for a 17—year—old in leeds when sutcliffe was left free to kill, it was a fear michelle teel couldn't shake. we had no mobile phone, so you couldn't ring to say, i don't feel safe. you had nothing, so i don't feel safe. you had nothing, so my i don't feel safe. you had nothing, so my mum i don't feel safe. you had nothing, so my mum used to time it knowing when i would roughly be coming home and she would walk halfway to meet me. but it was a scary time. all of us were so aware of me. but it was a scary time. all of us were so aware of this case, to the point of actually suspecting friends, neighbours. joan smith reported on the murders and suffered nightmares after. she wrote about the misogyny of the police investigating. they kind of thought that the women who were involved in the sex trade were asking for it in inverted commas, and they were much more interested