"It looked like just an ordinary handwritten letter on the outside. But when I opened it and read what it said, the horror of what it could entail became clear.” That’s Fr Andrew Browne, speaking to the BBC last week about a delivery to his church in High Green, Sheffield. The letter began, in handwritten capital letters: “Stop all your services straight away if you dont your church will be petrol bombed while in service.”
According to Fr Browne, at least 15 other churches have received the letters; police say other places, especially supermarkets, have also been targeted. The letters were mainly received in South Yorkshire, but the inquiry was transferred from there to West Midlands Police, after it turned out that the letters all had a postmark from the region.
