{"id":181305,"date":"2023-09-13T08:14:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=181305"},"modified":"2023-09-13T08:14:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:14:35","slug":"how-yorkshire-ripper-police-chief-suffered-heart-attack-after-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/how-yorkshire-ripper-police-chief-suffered-heart-attack-after-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"How Yorkshire Ripper police chief suffered heart attack after hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Yorkshire Ripper&#8217;s &#8217;14th victim&#8217;: How top police chief portrayed by David Morrisey in ITV drama The Long Shadow suffered heart attack after notorious hoaxer &#8216;Wearside Jack&#8217; tricked cops into believing they were hunting a killer from Sunderland<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield led West Yorkshire Police&#8217;s hunt<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 1979 and was later taken off the case<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Oldfield retired a &#8216;broken man&#8217; in 1983 and died aged just 61 in 1985\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He was widely regarded as a &#8216;top notch copper&#8217;, an old school policeman with three decades experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield was the man who led West Yorkshire Police&#8217;s hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, after suffering a near-fatal heart attack in 1979 and being taken off the case, he went on to retire a &#8216;broken man&#8217;, having failed in his promise to catch serial killer Peter Sutcliffe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oldfield&#8217;s anguish was made worse by the fact that it was his huge blunder in believing the hoaxer who became known as &#8216;Wearside Jack&#8217; that allowed Sutcliffe to murder a further three women before he was finally caught in 1981.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The policeman &#8211; who retired in the summer of 1983 &#8211; would go on to die aged just 61 in 1985 after suffering another heart attack.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The senior officer is portrayed by David Morrissey in upcoming drama The Long Shadow, whilst his replacement in charge of the Ripper inquiry &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Detective Chief Superintendent Jim Hobson &#8211; is depicted by Lee Ingleby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/16\/75340709-12509461-image-a-23_1694532899731.jpg\" height=\"971\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He was widely regarded as a &#8216;top notch copper&#8217;, an old school policeman with three decades experience. Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield was the man who led West Yorkshire Police &#8216;s hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/16\/75340707-12509461-image-a-25_1694532979542.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The senior officer is portrayed by David Morrissey in upcoming drama The Long Shadow<\/p>\n<p>The show&#8217;s trailer, which was released last week, sees Morrissey as Oldfield say: &#8216;I give you my word that I will catch this animal&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Sutcliffe was convicted for the murder of 13 women and for attacking several more.<\/p>\n<p>Oldfield worked 18-hour days and made a personal pledge to the parents of the sixth victim, Jayne MacDonald, that he would catch the killer.<\/p>\n<p>His 200-strong ripper squad eventually carried out more than 130,000 interviews, visited more than 23,000 homes and checked 150,000 cars.<\/p>\n<p>Oldfield had told of what the Ripper case meant to him in an interview shortly before he fell ill.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;I could retire now but I don&#8217;t have to go until I&#8217;m 65. I am determined to get him before I go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If I don&#8217;t get the Ripper before a court and get a conviction, then I&#8217;ll have failed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0 the summer of 1979, Oldfield was infamously hoodwinked by a Sunderland-born man later identified as John Humble.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/16\/69926035-12509461-The_real_Ripper_Peter_Sutcliffe_right_was_free_to_kill_another_t-a-24_1694532964616.jpg\" height=\"974\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Overall, Sutcliffe was convicted for the murder of 13 women and for attacking several more\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He sent three letters and a voice recording to officers, taunting them that they had had &#8216;no luck&#8217; catching him and suggesting it was because they were not &#8216;much good&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite experts&#8217; misgivings about the veracity of the tape and letters, police chief George Oldfield insisted they were from the murderer.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, officers ruled out real Ripper Peter Sutcliffe &#8211; who had been interviewed by officers five times by that point &#8211; because he was from Yorkshire and his handwriting was not a match.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/16\/75341047-12509461-image-a-33_1694533090073.jpg\" height=\"177\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>The Mail&#8217;s report of Oldfield&#8217;s death<\/p>\n<p>Oldfield organised a press conference and played the hoaxer&#8217;s recording to the media.<\/p>\n<p>The tape lasted for three minutes and 14 seconds, beginning with the haunting words: &#8216;I&#8217;m Jack&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In a gruff north east accent, he went on: &#8216;I see you are having no luck in catching me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have the greatest respect for you, George, but Lord you are no nearer catching me now than four years ago, when I started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I reckon your boys are letting you down, George. Ya can&#8217;t be much good, can ya?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Analysts linked the voice to the Castletown area of Sunderland \u2013 fatefully shifting the focus of the inquiry to a completely different part of northern England.<\/p>\n<p>More than a million pounds was spent on advertising, while the recording was played on television and radio bulletins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/17\/75342833-12509461-image-a-46_1694535378617.jpg\" height=\"435\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Oldfield is seen at the 1979 press conference where he played the tapes from a hoaxer posing as the Yorkshire Ripper\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/16\/69926031-12509461-John_Humble_the_hoaxer_known_as_Wearside_Jack_convinced_police_w-a-36_1694533264228.jpg\" height=\"867\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>John Humble, the\u00a0 hoaxer known as &#8216;Wearside Jack&#8217;, convinced police with a recording that the Yorkshire Ripper was from Sunderland. The real Ripper was free to kill another three women<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/16\/69926039-12509461-The_now_infamous_tape_pictured_on_which_the_hoaxer_sent_the_dete-a-26_1694533055034.jpg\" height=\"451\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The now infamous tape (pictured) on which the hoaxer sent the detective leading the team hunting the Ripper a taunting message in June 1979 had been taken home by a scientist<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/16\/35633224-12509461-Sutcliffe_was_pictured_in_public_for_the_last_time_on_September_-a-27_1694533057713.jpg\" height=\"761\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sutcliffe was pictured in public for the last time on September 26, 2015 when he was being taken from Broadmoor to Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey for eye treatment<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Sutcliffe carried out his final three murders and attacked three more women who survived.<\/p>\n<p>Two victims who had managed to get away alive told detectives their attacker had a Yorkshire accent \u2013 not the North Eastern voice of the person on the tape.<\/p>\n<p>However they were discounted by Mr Oldfield, a move which would later heap shame on both him and his force.<\/p>\n<p>A set of catastrophic coincidences had already helped convince him the letters \u2013 the first of which was sent in 1978 &#8211; were genuine.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, detectives knew of seven murder victims.<\/p>\n<p>This letter described an eighth, referred to as &#8216;Preston 1975&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This alluded to the killing of 26-year-old Joan Harrison. Lancashire Police had discounted any links with the Yorkshire murders.<\/p>\n<p>But scientists found that the person who licked the letter, a sample found at the scene of the crime and a third sample found from one of the confirmed Ripper murders all came from men with a rare blood group.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/16\/11531934-12509461-A_composite_of_12_of_the_13_victims_murdered_by_Sutcliffe_Victim-a-28_1694533060086.jpg\" height=\"691\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A composite of 12 of the 13 victims murdered by Sutcliffe. Victims are: (top row, left to right) Wilma McCann, Emily Jackson, Irene Richardson, Patricia Atkinson; (middle row, left to right) Jayne McDonald, Jean Jordan, Yvonne Pearson, Helen Rytka; (bottom row, left to right) Vera Millward, Josephine Whitaker, Barbara Leach, Jacqueline Hill<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/16\/69926041-12509461-Humble_taunted_police_detectives_in_the_1970s_by_claiming_to_be_-a-29_1694533063273.jpg\" height=\"440\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Humble taunted police detectives in the 1970s by claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper in three letters and an audio tape. Pictured: An envelope Humble sent West Yorkshire police in 1979<\/p>\n<p>In the days before DNA, Mr Oldfield concluded these were likely to be the same man.<\/p>\n<p>The man who murdered Joan Harrison also left a bite mark which matched one inflicted by Sutcliffe when he killed Josephine Whitaker in Halifax in April 1979.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE: The Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer who convinced police they were hunting a killer from Sunderland: ITV drama on the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe retells how Wearside Jack derailed investigation and left serial killer free to murder three more victims\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Sutcliffe was interviewed a total of nine times during the investigation, without being arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Former\u00a0Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg\u00a0was among more than 100 officers who had been ordered by Oldfield to gather at Halifax&#8217;s Old Court House to listen to the recording when it was first sent to police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He said they&#8217;d received a tape which he was going to play for us and that they are satisfied that this was from the killer,&#8217; he told the\u00a0Behind the Crimes&#8217; podcast in April this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And he was saying it in a tone that was very, very sombre and serious.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He said that Oldfield told officers that he wanted them to try to recall &#8216;anyone you have questioned that has an accent or a voice like this.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gregg told how the courtroom fell &#8216;deathly silent&#8217;, and the officers then heard the hoaxer&#8217;s words.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently stricken with remorse, Humble later phoned police anonymously to reveal he was a hoaxer \u2014 but he was not believed.<\/p>\n<p>He was finally caught when a sample of one of the envelopes from the letters he sent was found to contain his DNA. He was not convicted until 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oldfield was moved aside and replaced with Detective Chief Superintendent Hobson after his first heart attack.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He remained the Assistant Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police but had no further involvement in the Ripper case.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In June 1981 he was moved to take charge of operational support at West Yorkshire Police, a move put down to the fact he was in poor health.<\/p>\n<p>He was moved again in February 1982 and put in charge of Bradford, where the Ripper had previously struck.<\/p>\n<p>Oldfield had another heart attack in 1983 and was off work for several months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He then retired at the end of August in 1983 and died from congestive heart failure two years later.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>the worst blunder came in 1979, when Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield of West Yorkshire Police , who was in overall command of the hunt, was hoodwinked by a hoax tape and two letters sent from Sunderland, which purported to be from the Ripper.<\/p>\n<p>There were warnings of a hoax from voice experts and other detectives, but Oldfield pressed on, convinced this was his man.<\/p>\n<p>Because the voice on the tape had a North East accent, Sutcliffe, who was from Bradford, was not in the frame.<\/p>\n<p>Oldfield&#8217;s mistake has been described as one of the biggest in British criminal history, but he was widely regarded as a &#8216;top notch copper&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>An &#8216;old school&#8217; policeman with three decades experience, he was a hard drinking, dedicated man who developed a deep personal obsession with nailing the Ripper.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/16\/69925573-12509461-Three_letters_in_which_Jack_laid_down_a_string_of_false_clues_ha-a-30_1694533070514.jpg\" height=\"928\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Three letters in which &#8216;Jack&#8217; laid down a string of false &#8216;clues&#8217; had been treated with chemicals in a bid to find fingerprints so many times they had turned black. Pictured: Page one of the first letter sent by John Humble<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/16\/69925423-12509461-The_back_of_an_envelope_sent_to_police_which_contained_an_audio_-a-31_1694533074949.jpg\" height=\"859\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The back of an envelope sent to police which contained an audio tape made by John Humble, better known as &#8216;Wearside Jack&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He worked 18-hour days and made a personal pledge to the parents of the sixth victim, Jayne MacDonald, that he would catch the killer.<\/p>\n<p>His 200-strong ripper squad eventually carried out more than 130,000 interviews, visited more than 23,000 homes and checked 150,000 cars.<\/p>\n<p>When the tape arrived it was a personal message to Oldfield, which said: &#8216;Lord, you are no nearer catching me now than four years ago when I started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I reckon your boys are letting you down George. You can&#8217;t be much good can ya?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Later the same year Oldfield had a heart attack at the age of 57, and was subsequently moved off the case.<\/p>\n<p>He has been described by friends as &#8216;the Ripper&#8217;s 14th victim&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12509461\/yorkshire-ripper-victim-long-shadow-david-morrissey-police-chief-heart-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yorkshire Ripper&#8217;s &#8217;14th victim&#8217;: How top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Yorkshire Ripper police chief suffered heart attack after hoax - 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