YORKSHIRE RIPPER HOAXER WEARSIDE JACK DIES!

Real killer Sutcliffe on the left. Ripper Hoaxer, John Humble on the right

Written by Scott Williams-Collier

Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer, John Humble has died. Reports of his death have only just been made public, but apparently, he passed away on the 30th of July after years of alcoholism.

Humble sent the police on a wild goose chase in the late 1970s after sending a series of letters and a tape recording to the police. Diverting the police from the trail of the real killer Peter Sutcliffe who would go on to kill another 3 women.

John Humble would eventually be caught in 2005 after his DNA was taken after a minor offense by the police, and connected to DNA taken from the Yorkshire Ripper Hoaxers letters.

Humble admitted to sending two letters and a tape recording between the 1st of March 1978 and the 30th of June 1979 to the police and a 3rd letter to the Daily Mirror newspaper.

A dislike of the police and a fascination with the Jack The Ripper case were thought to be the reason he sent the letters and tape recording to the police, which massively hindered the police investigation.


after spending over 25 years as a freeman, the police finally caught up with Humble. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 2006 for perverting the course of justice.

After being released from prison in 2009, John Humble changed his name to John Anderson and spent the last years of his life in South Shields. His death is not being treated as suspicious.