Sir William Gull

[Mike J. G.]

Obviously you have some of your your facts and figures incorrect where Gull is concerned . The important ones .

So William Gull wasn't 70+ years old, wasn't recovering from a stroke, was actually living within the vicinity of the murder sites and had a history of criminality and violence?

See, here's the thing...

If you want to trim the fat from the suspect list, you have to realistically assess the likelihood of a suspect's candidacy.

Without any actual evidence that a particular person commited these murders, we have to look at the list and honestly weigh up the genuine likelihood that these men were not only physically, mentally and emotionally capable of committing murder, but had a good chance of realistically being in the area when the murders took place.

William Gull is neither more or less realistically capable of having commited these murders than Joseph Merrick was.

If you're not bending your imagination in what can only be described as a strenuous session of mental gymnastics, you can most definitely rule William Gull out of the list of LIKELY suspects without hesitation... If you actually wanted to.

We can generally claim that anyone could have been Jack, and it's somewhat true-ish. But in reality we know that not just anyone could have been Jack, and people like Gull can be safely struck from the list of probable suspects considering the fact that there's actual murderers who were in and around Whitechapel who were genuinely physically, mentally and emotionally capable of committing murder.

Argue all you like about facts and figures, mate, it's your life. I'd rather spend mine not entertaining ridiculous speculation about giant hairy men evading humanity in the grassy hills of the well traversed States of America.

Cheers

[Fiver]

He may very well been, we can't say he wasn't with any degree of certainty can we ?

Certain parts of the article might well be interpreted as an interesting motive, Gull being a physician, perhaps he wanted to further medical science and this was his agenda. Who knows ?

Thanks for pointing me to this. It fails as a motive based on Gull's extensive medical knowledge. Even a butcher would know no medical knowledge could be gained by mutilation.