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The Yorkshire Ripper was repeatedly stabbed in the face during a crazed attack inside Broadmoor hospital, a court has heard.

Murderer Patrick Sureda yelled "I'll teach you, you b*****d, for killing all those women" before knifing Peter Sutcliffe under his remaining good eye.

Nurses dashed to grab a seven-inch knife from the 43-year-old attacker.

A judge decided Sureda, who killed his own mother, was not fit to stand trial for attacking Sutcliffe. But a jury ruled he did carry out the assault. They heard Sureda grabbed Sutcliffe from behind at the end of lunch at the Berkshire hospital.

Neil Moore, prosecuting, told Reading crown court: "Fortunately the attempt was only successful to the extent that there was a small wound below the right eye."

Broadmoor healthcare assistant Roy Woodhouse said in a statement that Sureda seemed agitated before the attack.

He went on: "Suddenly he made a mad dash to Sutcliffe who had his back to him and lunged at him.

"He was gripping a metal dinner knife and made four or five cutting motions and I could hear thuds."

Flanked in the dock by six security guards and nurses Sureda repeatedly confirmed he was the attacker.

Judge Zoe Smith was told the paranoid schizophrenic believed his lawyers had been bribed by MI6 and was not emotionally capable of dealing with a court case.

He strangled his mother Geraldine, 68, in 2000 after she invited him home from hospital for the weekend.

Sutcliffe, 63, who now calls himself Peter Coonan, was blinded in his left eye in an attack by another Broadmoor patient, in May 1997.

He was jailed in 1981 for murdering 13 women and attempting to kill several others during a five-year reign of terror in Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 70s.

The jury decided Sureda was guilty of wounding with intent. He will be sentenced later.

ATTACKS IN JAIL

Peter Sutcliffe has been repeatedly attacked by other prisoners and mental patients since being sentenced to life in 1981.

January 1983: James Costello, 35, stabbed him twice in the face with a broken coffee jar at Parkhurst. Sutcliffe needed 30 stitches and a year later was moved to Broadmoor.

Costello, a career criminal from Glasgow, was convicted of wounding with intent in a bizarre trial in which he defended himself.

February 1996: Robber Paul Wilson tried to strangle the Ripper with a headphones flex. Sutcliffe was saved by Stockwell Strangler Kenneth Erskine who heard his screams. No one was charged.

March 1997: Violent robber Ian Kay, 29, left, blinded Sutcliffe in the right eye after stabbing him with a ball point pen in an attempted murder.