The funeral of Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer Wearside Jack has been held two months after his death.
John Humble made his final journey on a trolley with no pallbearers and just four mourners.
His favourite songs, Get it On, by T Rex, and Pretty Woman, by Roy Orbison, were played at the brief private service.
There was no mention of his “I’m Jack” tape and letters which derailed the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry in 1979.
Instead his sister Jean Humble, 53, and brother Harry, 61, heard a brief tribute to the “happy-go-lucky” man they knew before his crime caught up with him, 25 years after he carried it out.
At the service in Sunderland crematorium on Friday, Ms Humble said: “We just wanted something about the life that he had. The person we knew.”
Alcoholic Humble, 63, died on July 31, after changing his name by deed poll to John Anderson.
Humble, dubbed Wearside Jack, derailed the inquiry in the 70s, leaving Peter Sutcliffe to keep killing, after hoaxing police into thinking he was the Ripper.
With the nation horror-struck as the Ripper’s murder spree went on, Humble sent detectives a two-minute message and three letters that nobbled the police inquiry in 1978 and 1979.
The delays he caused allowed Sutcliffe to kill at least three more women.
Humble was an alcoholic and living alone under an assumed name in a scruffy ground-floor flat.
Neighbours were unaware of his true identity and some friends only found out this year when they watched a TV documentary about the Ripper.
