Ripper evealed

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Handwritten notes in which the police officer who led the hunt for Jack The Ripper names his chief suspect for the gruesome murders have been donated to Scotland Yard.

The notes are contained within a book handed down through the family of Chief Inspector Donald Swanson, which was formally presented to the Metropolitan Police to mark the re-launch of its world-famous crime museum.

In his annotations, Mr Swanson names Polish barber Aaron Kosminski as the suspect in the notorious Ripper case.

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He had made his handwritten notes in a book called The Lighter Side of my Official Life, the memoirs of Dr Robert Anderson, who was Scotland Yard's assistant commissioner at the time of the Ripper investigation.

Mr Swanson made his personal notes in the margin, naming Kosminski and explaining why he believed him to be the killer who stalked east London back in 1888, claiming the lives of at least five women.

The book, which was passed to Mr Swanson's daughter and then his nephew, was formally presented to the Metropolitan Police by the officer's relatives, including his great-grandson Nevill Swanson.

The presentation marks the relaunch of the force's crime museum, the oldest museum of its kind in the world.

Mr Swanson's notes, which have been public knowledge since the 1980s, provide one of the best clues to the Ripper's real identity but they do not solve the case conclusively.

Kosminski was named as a suspect in a famous memorandum by Assistant Chief Constable Sir Melville MacNaghten, written back in 1894.

Sir Melville also named Michael Ostrog and the barrister Montague John Druitt as possible suspects in the hunt and researchers remain divided about who the Ripper actually was.

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