Hoaxer who claimed to be Yorkshire Ripper dies

Name: Hoaxer who claimed to be Yorkshire Ripper dies
Uploaded: 2019-08-20T11:40:55.000Z
Duration: 27 s
Description: John Humble, who was dubbed Wearside Jack, sent police on a wild goose chase when he sent them hoax letters and an audio tape in the late 1970s.

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When John Humble was questioned after being arrested in 2005, he read aloud a section of the hoax tape recording he posted to West Yorkshire Police in 1979.

The recording sent detectives on a wild goose chase, with claims the delay allowed the real Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, to murder three more women.

Tyne & Wear

20 August 2019