'I've turned the tables on Peter Sutcliffe': artist Mo Lea on why she finally drew her attacker
Mo Lea was an art student when she was attacked by the Yorkshire Ripper. Instead of telling anyone, she began to draw. The artist explains why returning to those disturbing images decades on has been like ‘opening a grave’In October 1980 Mo Lea sat in a pub in Chapeltown, Leeds, planning her 21st birthday party. At the end of the evening, her friends went one way and she went the other “to catch the bus back to my little flat”. An arts student at Leeds University, she was
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