Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe makes friends with brutal African dictator Charles Taylor in prison
The brutal leader, who is doing 50 years for war crimes, used child soldiers to mutilate his enemies when he was president of Liberia
THE Yorkshire Ripper has got a new pal in prison – a brutal African dictator who is doing 50 years for war crimes.
Charles Taylor used child soldiers to mutilate his enemies when he was president of Liberia.
He fuelled a civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone and in return for blood diamonds gave weapons to rebel groups who specialised in hacking the arms and legs off victims.
At his trial supermodel Naomi Campbell was called to give evidence after lawyers claimed Taylor had given her a tainted stone as a gift.
He was convicted of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and was sent to the UK to serve his sentence.
He is now in HMP Frankland where he has buddied up with Peter Sutcliffe, who is serving a full-life term for 13 murders.
The monsters eat their meals together and spend hours in each other’s cells chatting about the old days.
A source said: “They have bonded because of their similar age and because they both know they will die behind bars.”
Sutcliffe has told pals how much he enjoys Taylor’s company and said: “You wouldn't think he was in for genocide.”
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He added: “He was an African leader was Charles but he speaks excellent English.
“He is a very polite man and I like him. He’s easy to get on with and he gives me a TV guide every week.
”He spends loads on phone calls because he rings people in Africa.
Taylor was the first former head of state to face international justice since the Nuremberg trials.
His 2010 trial heard he gave blood diamonds to Campbell after she flirted with him at a dinner.
Hollywood star Mia Farrow told the hearing that the catwalk queen had said to her "Oh my God — Charles Taylor sent me a huge diamond."
But Campbell contradicted the claims and said: “I know nothing about Taylor, never heard of him before, never heard of Liberia before, I never heard of blood diamonds before."
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Taylor was convicted of 11 war crimes and was sentenced in 2012.
Tony Blair’s government had pledged in 2006 that if convicted he could serve his sentence in a UK prison as part of our commitment to international justice.
Sutcliffe was jailed at the Old Bailey in 1981 for 13 murders and seven attempted murders after terrorising the north of England for five years.
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