THE world’s most famous unsolved crime is about to come under the magnifying glass at a two-day conference on Jack the Ripper being held in Salisbury.

The Ripper’s story will be the focus of the conference, which is being hosted by The Whitechapel Society, and takes place at The White Hart Hotel on November 8 and 9.

The conference could not be better timed.

Last month, businessman Russell Edwards made the extraordinary claim, that the crime had now been solved after 126 years and that the notorious Whitechapel serial killer had finally been identified.

Businessman Russell Edwards brought in Dr Jari Louhelainen to analyse blood stains found on a shawl purporting to belong to the Ripper’s fourth victim, Catherine Eddows.

Mr Edwards bought the shawl in 2007.

Since then, the latest scientific techniques and DNA sequencing have been applied to the blood stains found on the shawl which it’s claimed was left next to the victim’s body.

Dr Louhelainen, says the shawl also contains the killer’s DNA and the evidence points to Aaron Kosminski who was a Polish Jewish immigrant who, fleeing persecution by Poland’s Russian rulers, came to England in 1881 and lived in Mile End Old Town.

During his life Kosminski was admitted to a string of lunatic asylums, where he died in 1899 of gangrene in the leg. The story will be the focus of the Salisbury conference l Two of Salisbury’s theatre groups will be also be involved in the weekend.

The Midnight Theatre Company will be performing the musical Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper at the Chapel Nightclub and History at Large will be hosting a mock trial entitled Proof of Guilt – The Trial of James Maybrick for the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 at Salisbury Guildhall’s Old Oak Court.

There are special day rates for the conference.

Details are available by emailing susanmarieparry@ hotmail.com.