Reports that Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe may eventually be released from prison have sparked outrage.

Keighley MP Ann Cryer said the serial killer should never be allowed to walk the streets again.

She spoke out yesterday following claims that doctors at top security hospital Broadmoor had told lawyers for Sutcliffe — who murdered 13 women and tried to kill seven others in the 1970s and 80s — that he was no longer dangerous.

If Justice Secretary Jack Straw agrees to classify him as low-risk, he could be moved to a medium security prison and eventually freed.

A Keighley woman, Anne Rogulskyj, was said to be the first surviving victim of the Ripper.

She was hit over the head with a hammer and had her stomach slashed open in an alleyway off Alice Street, Keighley, in July 1975. She was left slumped in a doorway with a gaping wound to her head and survived extensive surgery in Leeds General Infirmary, during which a steel plate was fitted to her skull.

Mrs Rogulskyj, who was living in Highfield Lane, Keighley, at the time of the attack, died last year, aged 75.

Mrs Cryer, whose late first husband Bob was Keighley’s MP at the time of Sutcliffe’s reign of terror, said: “I remember well the fear that all women felt then. They were scared to go out on the streets and I wouldn’t let my daughter, Jane, go out on her own. It affected a lot of people’s lives.

“Mrs Rogulskyj came to one of Bob’s advice surgeries some time after she had been attacked and she was still badly affected by what had happened to her.

“Sutcliffe should never be released. If he’s considered less of a risk he could be moved to a non-hospital situation but must not be transferred to a lower-security institution.”

Sutcliffe, a lorry driver from Bingley, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981.

In 1992, Sutcliffe finally admit ted being responsible for an attack on Tracy Browne, of Silsden, and on a Bradford Irish student to the then Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Keith Hellawell. Tracy was aged 14 when she was attacked, in August 1975, with a hammer by Peter Sutcliffe on a lonely farm road at Silsden. She survived the attack when Sutcliffe was disturbed by an approaching car.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw last summer told Parliament that Sutcliffe could not be considered by the Parole Board for release while he was detained under the Mental Health Act.

But Sutcliffe’s lawyers want him to be declared sane so he can be transferred back to the prison system and a bid for his release can be made under the European Convention of Human Rights.

The new outcry followed reports that experts say he is fit be be released from Broadmoor.