Ripper hoaxer set to be sentenced
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London (UK):
The Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer, known as Wearside Jack, is to be sentenced after admitting perverting the course of justice.Unemployed labourer John Humble, 50, had a fascination with the original Jack The Ripper and told police what he had done was "evil" after he was caught last year.
Unemployed labourer John Humble, 50, had a fascination with the original Jack The Ripper and told police what he had done was "evil" after he was caught last year.Humble will be sentenced at Leeds Crown Court after he pleaded guilty to four counts of perverting the course of justice in relation to three letters and an audio tape which taunted detectives searching for the Ripper in the late 1970s.
Leeds Crown Court heard the hoax sent the whole Ripper inquiry in the wrong direction as senior detectives believed the distinctive Sunderland accent on the tape belonged to the real murderer.
Humble, of Flodden Road, Sunderland, was arrested after state-of-the-art forensic techniques matched his DNA with a sample found on one of the envelopes used to post one of the letters.
Mar 21, 2006
This is London
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London (UK):
The Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer, known as Wearside Jack, is to be sentenced after admitting perverting the course of justice.Unemployed labourer John Humble, 50, had a fascination with the original Jack The Ripper and told police what he had done was "evil" after he was caught last year.
Unemployed labourer John Humble, 50, had a fascination with the original Jack The Ripper and told police what he had done was "evil" after he was caught last year.Humble will be sentenced at Leeds Crown Court after he pleaded guilty to four counts of perverting the course of justice in relation to three letters and an audio tape which taunted detectives searching for the Ripper in the late 1970s.
Leeds Crown Court heard the hoax sent the whole Ripper inquiry in the wrong direction as senior detectives believed the distinctive Sunderland accent on the tape belonged to the real murderer.
Humble, of Flodden Road, Sunderland, was arrested after state-of-the-art forensic techniques matched his DNA with a sample found on one of the envelopes used to post one of the letters.
Mar 21, 2006
