Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

NEW LIFE

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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,

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