Sonia Sutcliffe is the former wife of British serial killer Peter Sutcliffe. She married the then 28-year old Sutcliffe on 10 August 1974, her 24th birthday. Her relationship with her husband was later characterised by writer Gordon Burn as domineering.
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Sonia Sutcliffe is the former wife of British serial killer Peter Sutcliffe. She married the then 28-year old Sutcliffe on 10 August 1974, her 24th birthday. Her relationship with her husband was later characterised by writer Gordon Burn as domineering. In 1989 a libel action against the satirical magazine Private Eye, brought by Sutcliffe, came to court.
She was awarded record libel damages against the magazine of £600,000; £100,000 more than previously. The jury found for the News of the World, and she was ordered to pay the legal costs of both sides in the case.
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