THE brutal murder of a Huddersfield prostitute yesterday brought back memories of terror in the town’s red light area.

The body of the 39-year-old woman was found yesterday, just 200 yards from the murder of a victim of the Yorkshire Ripper.

Lorry driver Peter Sutcliffe, from Clayton, Bradford, murdered one of his 13 victims in Huddersfield’s red light area of Hillhouse in January, 1978.

Yesterday’s crime came close to the spot where teenage prostitute Helen Rytka died.

And it was an all too familiar sight as the streets which make up the vice area were sealed off for many hours.

Great Northern Street, Hillhouse Lane and Lower Fitzwilliam Street are part of the regular pick-up areas for customers seeking sex.

Many of them cruise those streets at night, bringing protests from respectable people living in the rows of terrace houses fringing the area.

It became the town’s red light area more than 40 years ago, when the prostitutes moved away from the Venn Street area of the town centre.

Helen Rytka, 18, lived with her twin, Rita, in a shabby flat at Highfields, just a few hundred yards from the red light area.

Both girls had been prostitutes for just a few weeks when Helen got in a car with a good-looking dark haired man.

It was Sutcliffe and he drove into a parking area off Great Northern Street.

He then hit Helen over the head with a hammer and had sex with her “to keep her quiet”.

He then stabbed her several times with a screwdriver and calmly drove off, leaving her dying.