Police unable to find perpetrator, leaving residents of Shiptonthorpe unsure of whom they can trust
Police have carried out inquiries over the letters sent to residents in the village of Shiptonthorpe, which is home to about 500 people.Police have carried out inquiries over the letters sent to residents in the village of Shiptonthorpe, which is home to about 500 people.village amid a two-year campaign of anonymous poison pen letters that have caused some people who lived there to move away, they have said.
The episode has echoes of a similar campaign of malicious notes in the West Sussex village of Littlehampton in the spring of 1920, which went on to be raised in the House of Commons and inspired the 2023 film Wicked Little Letters, starring Olivia Colman. The writer said the woman should be “turned out on the Beverley Westwood pasture with the rest of the cows”, she told the BBC. “It was just vile.”
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