Jack the Ripper - Crime Monthly - ITV - 1990 - Documentary

Here’s Jack the Ripper a Crime Monthly Special ITV circa 1990 introduced by Paul Ross. The Programme comes to the same conclusion as the recent book by Russell Edwards (Published 2014) about the likely candidate who carried out the 5 Ripper crimes as a Polish immigrant called Aaron Kosminski. described as “a Polish Jew & resident of Whitechapel, insane owing to many years indulgence in solitary vices. He had a great hatred of women, specially of the prostitute class, & had strong homicidal tendencies; he was removed to a lunatic asylum about March 1889. There were many circumstances connected with this man which made him a strong suspect.“ Inspector Swanson added that Kosminski “was sent to Stepney Workhouse and then to Colney Hatch and died shortly afterwards.“ Philip Sugden chased down Kosminski’s records and found a lot of discrepancies between police statements and the hospital records. According to Sugden, “Kosminski was not committed to Colney Hatch in 1889 but