It would appear that the identity of Jack the Ripper has finally been revealed thanks to a DNA test carried out on a shawl belonging to one of the victims, Catherine Eddowes.
I remain sceptical about it, not least because that shawl looks as though it has just been returned from the laundry rather than belonging to an inpoverished prostitute who, the day before her murder, was forced to sell her shoes.
Could be a case of someone trying to flog yet another book purporting to reveal the identity of Jack but maybe it's all true and I'm just being a miserable old cynic