An investigation has been launched after a series of hate mail letters were sent to television newsrooms across the North-east, police confirmed today.
Officers from Northumbria Police have already established a DNA profile of the author responsible for a series of nuisance letters sent to local news presenters at both the BBC and regional ITV stations.
Detectives are working with colleagues in the Metropolitan Police after linking one letter sent to presenters in the south east of the country with the letter campaign in the north.
A Northumbria Police spokesman today said: ''We are investigating a series of letters sent to local BBC and ITV news presenters since December 2001.
"The majority of the letters are of nuisance value but one or two are offensive or indecent. "We have a number of avenues of enquiry in relation to the author of the letters and have a DNA profile as well.
"We have been contacted by the Metropolitan Police in relation to letters referring to presenters in the south east of England. We have had sight of one particular letter which we are linking to our inquiries and are working together with the Met."
The spokesman would not comment on the number of letters sent.
He declined to say whether the letter raising interest to both Northumbria and Metropolitan Police forces had any relation to newspaper reports that Crimewatch presenter Fiona Bruce was mentioned in one nuisance mail.
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