Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
NEW LIFE
Met something they didn’t have 50 years ago, and that’s a genuine prime suspect.”
Jones died of bone cancer in Hammersmith in 1971, and the children of Jack the Stripper’s victims still await justice.
One of the first victims, 30-year-old prostitute Hannah Tailford, originally from Northumberland, was found dead on February 2, 1964, her body fished out of the Thames at Hammersmith.
She had been strangled, several of her teeth were missing and her underwear had been forced down her throat.
Her son Steven Sloman, 61, said: “The general attitude then was just, ‘Well, it’s just a prostitute’. At the end of the day, whatever happened, she was a mum.
“Justice was not done and I would like them to open to case, find evidence and maybe come up with closure, and say, ‘It could have been this person here’.”
By the time of the killings – the other victims were pregnant Irene Lockwood,