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Interviewer: Patricia Cornwell in her book Jack the Ripper case closed said that she had identified the murderer and that she was convinced that Jack the Ripper was in fact Walter Sickert, the painter. What evidence did she put forward to support this claim?
Inspector Morton: Well, she mainly used DNA analysis. She actually bought a painting by Sickert at great expense and she cut it up to get the DNA from it people in the art world were furious.
Interviewer: l can imagine. Inspector Morton And then she compared the DNA from the painting with DNA taken from the letters that Jack the Ripper sent to the police. Patricia Cornwell says that she's 99 per cent certain that walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper.
Interviewer: But you don't think she's right, do you?
Inspector Morton: No,Idon't. don't think her scientific evidence is completely reliable and there's a lot of evidence which says that Sickert was in France not London when some of the women were killed.
Interviewer: what about James Maybrick? Do you think he was the murderer?
Inspector Morton: Well, somebody found a diary which is supposed to be his where he admits to being Jack the Ripper. But nobody has been able to prove that the diary is genuine and, personally, don't think he was the murderer.
Interviewer: And Prince Albert, the Queen's grandson?
Inspector Morton: This for me is the most ridiculous theory. Ican't seriously believe that a member of the royal family could be a serial murderer. In any case, Prince Albert was in Scotland when at least two of the murders were committed.