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Here are eight reasons why Aaron Kosminski cannot be highly rated as a suspect in the Whitechapel murders, nor as the supposed suspect described by Macnaghten and Swanson.
(1) According to Macnaghten, Kosminski became insane owing to many years indulgence in solitary vices.
Does that seem like someone who was still 22 at the time of the first two murders?
For how many years could a 22-year-old have been known to be jerking off?
(2) According to Macnaghten, Kosminski was removed to a lunatic asylum about March 1889.
He was not permanently incarcerated until nearly two years later.
(3) According to Macnaghten, There were many circumstances connected with this man which made him a strong 'suspect'.
That means that the case against Kosminski was entirely circumstantial and he was not even a suspect.
Macnaghten, who had access to all relevant files, was unaware of any incriminating evidence or any identification evidence against Kosminski.
(4) According to Swanson, after Kosminski was identified at the Seaside Home, no other murder of this kind took place in London.
Swanson implied that the identification took place in late 1888 or early 1889, well before the Seaside Home opened.
The argument that he meant no more murders took place after July 1890 or February 1891 does not stand up because there would have been no point in noting the cessation of the series of murders after an identification that took place more than two years after the last murder in the series.
(5) According to Swanson, following the identification of Kosminski as the Whitechapel Murderer, On suspect's return to his brother's house in Whitechapel he was watched by police (City CID) by day & night.
That is impossible, because no-one who had been identified as the Whitechapel Murderer would have been allowed to go home.
There would have been no point in watching him day and night 27 months after the last murder in the series, which again means that Swanson was claiming that the identification took place at a time when the Seaside Home had not yet opened, which is impossible.
(6) Swanson claimed that Kosminski was placed under restraint: In a very short time the suspect with his hands tied behind his back ...
This is not credible because in 30 years of asylum notes, there is no record of Kosminski's ever having had to be placed under restraint or kept in isolation.
He was instead described as harmless and his committal order described him as not dangerous.
(7) Swanson's claim that Kosminski died soon after being incarcerated - i.e. 30 years before he actually died - suggests someone who was considerably older than Aaron Kosminski and someone who had been practising solitary vices for much longer than Kosminski could have.
(8) There is nothing in Kosminski's psychological profile that matches that of Macnaghten's or Swanson's Kosminski nor that of the Whitechapel Murderer.
There is no evidence that Kosminski was dangerous, none that he hated prostitutes, none that he ever associated with prostitutes - in spite of allegedly having been under CID surveillance - and none that he was anti-Semitic, which both the assailant of Stride and the writer of the Goulston Street Graffito evidently were.
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