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“The shawl has been openly handled by loads of people and been touched, breathed on, spat upon,” Mr Cobb explained.
“My DNA is probably on there. What’s more, Kosminski is likely to have frequented prostitutes in the East End of London.
“If I examined that shawl, I’d probably find links to 150 other men from the area.”
It has never been proven that the shawl was found next to Eddowes. Donald Rumbelow, a Ripper expert who runs Ripper tours in East London, said that it was not included in a police list of items found with her body.
Peter Gill, a pioneer of DNA profiling, said: “The shawl is of dubious origin and has been handled by several people who could have shared that mitochondrial DNA profile.”
He pointed out that, even in photographs, Mr Edwards is seen handling the shawl without gloves.
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Not exactly beyond reasonable doubt.