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The Yorkshire Ripper’s sight is so bad he needs special gear to write to warped fans.

The serial killer’s handwriting has deteriorated badly since losing the sight in his left eye in an attack.

A 2005 letter showed Peter Sutcliffe’s neat joined-up script but now he writes in block capitals.

The monster, jailed in 1981 for murdering 13 women, wrote: “Please excuse the print but I have to use a writing frame designed by my buddy Steve as I am registered blind and I couldn’t write without it.

“I can just about see the TV but it’s very blurred picture so I mainly listen to what’s on. I also have my DAB radio and listen to a lot of the plays on Radio 4 Extra (smiley face).

“Sadly I can no longer read books or see to play snooker or pool. We all have a couple of hours of association every day in which we can make ­telephone calls etc.”

Sutcliffe moved from Broadmoor maximum security hospital to HMP Frankland, Co Durham, in 2016 and said he prefers it, even though the food is not as good.

Today he is planning to celebrate his 73rd birthday and bragged his lag pals Steve and Rob would be cooking him a feast. But he moaned that he was not allowed to receive a birthday cake. Sutcliffe wrote: “We will ­be having southern fried chicken with french fries, mushrooms and garden peas. Also ham and cheese fritters with a curry dip sauce, all bought from the canteen.”

The letters revealed he had “given up” on politics as “ Brexit ’s a mess.” He also said he is paid £10 a week but “it goes nowhere at all.”

Sutcliffe, who lost the sight in his eye in a 1997 attack by a fellow Broadmoor patient, has also written about his murder spree between 1975 and 1980 and his full-life sentence.

He claimed he was suffering from schizophrenia when he carried out the killings.

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He wrote: “Well I had no idea I was suffering with schizophrenia. That was the tragedy. I believed I was caught up in a miracle with God. (unhappy face).

“It does seem a very long time since my arrest! I sometimes wonder where all the years [have] gone to? I’ve spent more than half my life in prison on this sentence.

“My faith has kept me strong. I’ve been having regular Bible studies with the Jehovah’s Witness brothers and sisters since 1989 and had an ­honorary baptism in 1995 whilst at Broadmoor.”

But he said his fondest recollections were of his marriage to Sonia in 1974 and their honeymoon.

The pair divorced after 20 years of marriage and in 1997 she married her second husband Michael.

The killer bleated: “I think my happiest memories have been the magic of our honeymoon in Paris, everything was just perfect, happy days.”