Poison pen letters leave ‘cloud of vitriol’ hanging over East Yorkshire village

Police unable to find perpetrator, leaving residents of Shiptonthorpe unsure of whom they can trust

A “cloud of vitriol” hangs over an East Yorkshire 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 “personal, obscene and targeted” letters have caused chaos in the quiet hamlet of Shiptonthorpe over the last two years, leaving residents upset, frightened and unable to know who they can trust.