‘It’s vile’: the East Yorkshire village mystified by poison pen letters

A number of people in Shiptonthorpe have received mail, but police inquiries are still to reveal the perpetrator

There's nothing as funny as folk," mused a resident of Shiptonthorpe in East Yorkshire, a quiet village in the grip of a mysterious poison pen letter writer.

It's a lovely village," she said. I only moved here quite recently and everyone's been really friendly."