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After Patrick Sharp had left, Culverhouse declared that he thought it would be a good idea to generate a list of potential suspects based on the suspects in the original Ripper case. If the modern day Ripper was somehow emulating the murders in order to avenge a Victorian suspect or prove somebody’s guilt, this seemed a particularly good place to start.
Debbie Weston had by now become the de facto incident room expert on the original Ripper killings, and it was Debbie who addressed the room with regards to the original Ripper suspects.
‘The strange thing about the original case is that there still isn’t an overwhelming favourite in terms of suspects. There are three or four who are considered most likely, but they all have their drawbacks. One of the prime suspects was a man called M
