Ex-Coronation Street star Bruce Jones relives the horror of discovering the mutilated body of a Yorkshire Ripper victim in new ITV documentary The Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders.
In October 1977, when the Les Battersby actor was 24, he found 20-year-old sex worker Jean Jordan on an allotment in Manchester – and briefly ended up as a suspect for the psychotic slaying.
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Bruce Jones on finding Ripper victim
The former soap actor recalls: “There was two of us, me and an older bloke. We had the chance to get an allotment, which we did.”
“We managed to acquire this big shed but it needed a brick base.
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