Sentenced to 8 years in 2006 for crimes committed over 25 yrs earlier, by what name was John Humble known to the police?
Wearside Jack was causing criminal damage to people". On 21 March 2006, Humble was sentenced to eight years in jail. In July 2006, he launched an appeal against his sentence, which was rejected in October of the same year. On 5 September 2009 the "Daily Mail Online" ran a story "Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer Wearside Jack to be freed from prison next month". In an article published in July 2013, Humble was confirmed to be out of prison and gave his first interview. Wearside Jack Wearside Jack is the nickname given to John Samuel Humble (born 8 January 1956), an Englishman who pretended
War crimes in the Kosovo War changed by the prosecution mid-trial to "a war crime against civilian population" (according to Article 142 of the FRY Criminal Code), paving the way for prosecution of war crimes against ethnic Albanians in Serbia and Yugoslavia. The trial, organized in front of the District Court in Prokuplje, finally ended with a guilty verdict in 2002, Nikolic sentenced to 8 years of prison. One of the more known cases was that of Boban Petković and Đorđe Simić, due to the controversial stalling, both of whom are Serbian police reservists; Petković was suspect of murder of 3 Albanian civilians in the village