英語閱讀：百年“開膛手杰克案”由DNA檢測

Jack the Ripper murdered at least five women, slashing their throats, removing some of their internal organs and leaving their mutilated bodied in Whitechapel's darkened alleyways.

這位倫敦東區的白教堂一帶以殘忍手法連續殺害至少五名妓女的兇手被稱作“開膛手杰克”。

Russell Edwards，an expert in molecular biology ，claims Aaron Kosminski, a 23 year-old Polish immigrant who ended up dying in an asylum , was "definitely, categorically and absolutely" the man behind the grisly killing spree in 1888 in London's East End.

分子生物學專家拉塞爾?愛德華茲，稱終死于避難所的23歲波蘭移民亞倫?柯斯米斯基(Aaron Kosminski)是1888年倫敦東區殘忍殺戮案的幕后真兇。

Mr Edwards said a blood-stained shawl found by the body of Catherine Eddowes who was one of the Ripper's victims he bought in 2007 after an auction in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, held vital DNA evidence which led him to the killer. He used pioneering techniques to find DNA from her blood and that of the killer.

愛德華茲先生說，他在2007年一個拍賣會上買下了其中一名受害者凱瑟琳(Catherine Eddowes)的一條血跡斑斑的披肩，通過使用高科技采集相關樣本、比對出可信度極高的DNA證據，從而使兇手得到確認。