<p><br /> Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe will learn the outcome of his plea not to have to spend the rest of his life behind bars.<br /> </p><p><br /> A judge in the High Court in London will announce his decision on an application by the serial killer to have a minimum term set which will give him the chance of parole.<br /> </p><p><br /> The 63-year-old former lorry driver, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, was convicted at the Old Bailey in 1981.<br /> </p><p><br /> He received 20 life terms for the murder of 13 women and the attempted murder of seven others in Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.<br /> </p><p><br /> A judge recommended that he serve a minimum of 30 years behind bars. He is currently being held in Broadmoor top security psychiatric hospital after being transferred from prison in 1984 suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.<br /> </p><p><br /> Dr Kevin Murray, the psychiatrist who has been in charge of Sutcliffe's care since 2001, said in a 2006 report that he now posed a "low risk of reoffending".<br /> </p><p><br /> Sutcliffe is said to have believed he was on a "mission from God" to kill prostitutes - although not all of his victims were sex workers - and was dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper because he mutilated their bodies using a hammer, a sharpened screwdriver and a knife.<br /> </p>
