Jack the Ripper killed mothers, wives and servants - NOT just prostitutes as history tells
(World News UK)

A SERIAL killer was on the loose, and one letter-writer to The Times was very pleased about it. After the murder of a second `prostitute` by Jack the Ripper in 1888, Edward Fairfield set pen to paper to declare: `It was on the whole a good thing that they fell in with this unknown surgical genius. Getty - Contributor 8 Hulton Archive - Getty 8 `He at all events has made his contribution to clearing the East End of its vicious inhabitants.` Even in our more sympathetic age, the five women who were murdered have been largely dismissed as desperate street-walkers. It turns out that Jack the Ripper did not just take the lives of these women - he took their true identities as well. But now...