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Jack the Ripper 'lived in Australia'

Dr Geoff Crawford, who has been researching the infamous 1888 prostitute murders, believes the East End killer may have lived out his days in Australia.

He claims international con man Frederick Bailey Deeming could have been responsible for the murders.

Deeming lived in Britain in the 1880s, settling in Rainhill near Liverpool where he was later discovered to have killed his first wife and their four children.

He later emigrated to Melbourne, where he was eventually hanged in Old Melbourne Gaol in 1892 for the murder of his second wife.

Mr Crawford said Deeming's crimes were similar to those committed by Jack the Ripper, in which his victims' throats were slit and their internal organs removed.

Deeming also resembled the description of a man seen with Jack the Ripper's final victim, Mary Jane Kelly, before she died and was "a complete psychopath", he said.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)