Families of Jack the Ripper’s victims want fresh answers after DNA breakthrough

Karen Miller is a descendent of Jack the Ripper victim Catherine Eddowes (Picture: North News & Pictures)

The families of the victims of one of London’s most notorious criminals hope they are a step closer to finally finding out the truth.

The descendants of Jack the Ripper’s victims, who rampaged through the capital and murdered five women in 1888, are backing a legal application for a new inquest into the death of one of his victims.

A bloodstained shawl said to have been...