 Interviewed by Joan Smith for "The Sunday Times" in 1980, Olive Smelt, a victim of Sutcliffe who survived his 1975 attack in Halifax, was angry that the police had ignored her insistence that the perpetrator was a local man.Other survivors' evidence, photofits which were close to Sutcliffe's appearance, were also rejected.A confidential police document issued in September 1979 by the West Yorkshire Police murder incident room instructed detectives to disregard from their inquiries any suspect without a North-East accent.