Nearly 120 years after his crimes, there is an e-fit of Victorian killer Jack the Ripper.
In a Five documentary on November 21, modern detective techniques were used to narrow the search for ‘the first serial killer’, as the TV programme makers put it.
Among those featured on the documentary were John Grieve, former Met Police commander, who ended the hour show with the opinion that armed with modern technology, police would have caught the Ripper. Geo-profiling – mapping of data by computer – came up with the likely streets in Whitechapel that the murderer lived on, around where he did his killings.
John Grieve is an emeritus professor; the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety is now at the London Metropolitan University; its previous home was at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College.
Laura Richards, head of analysis for Scotland Yard’s Violent Crime Command, came up with the e-fit.
