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Police charge Ant and Dec in Wearside Jack case
Police charged Ant and Dec on Thursday in connection with a notorious hoax that diverted officers during their hunt 25 years ago for the "Yorkshire Ripper". The alleged entertainers, both from a bitterly cold North Eastern part of England, were charged with perverting the course of justice and making rubbish television programmes, and ordered to appear before magistrates in Leeds.
Police have been searching for the hoaxer (now known to be have been hoaxers) who sent letters and an audiotape to them in 1979 goading them for failing to catch the Ripper, who killed 13 women between 1975 and 1980.
The hoax diverted resources from the hunt for the real killer, bearded nasty person Peter Sutcliffe, who was jailed for life in 1981 for the murders.
Ant and Dec's earliest attempt at a practical joke – when both were aged just four - now seems to have backfired with both of them facing lengthy prison sentences after failing to disguise their cheeky Geordie accents.
The tape, sent to Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield in June 1979, taunted the police manhunt: "Whyaye man! I see you are still having no luck catching me, pet. You must be some sort of noodle-head, man!"
Ant and Dec are famed for their hilarious wind-ups on their "Saturday Night Take-Away" show. With a mixture of unconvincing prosthetic make-up and barely accurate voices they've fooled dumb celebrities from Busted to former royal news reporter Jenny Bond into thinking that they were someone other than two idiots from up north.
In one of their most famous pranks they travelled to Chicago to audition for American Idol and managed to fool Simon Cowell into believing they were talented.
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