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 The true identity of Jack the Ripper may have finally been uncovered by a teacher - who claims it was the work of a renowned poet. 
 
 Richard Patterson has spent nearly 20 years investigating his case to prove that respected poet Francis Thompson was responsible for butchering five women in East London. 
 
 The 45-year-old claims that Thompson, from Preston, Lancs, not only wrote about killing people, but also had surgical experience and close links to at least one prostitute in the area where the grisly murders took place. 
 
 He said: "I'm grateful to have played some part in helping people understand Thompson, and why he might have been the Ripper . 
 
 "I'm excited that people are beginning to take the theory seriously, seeing Thompson and the crimes in a different light creates interesting possibilities." 
 
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 Richard, from Australia, became convinced that Thompson was the killer when he read a book of his poetry as a student in 1997 and then discovered he had trained as a doctor too. 
 
 Now, after travelling the world searching for clues as to who the killer really was, Richard claims that evidence against Thompson is stronger than that of any previous suspects. 
 
 Richard, who is an English teacher at various schools in Byron Bay, New South Wales, said: "Thompson kept a dissecting knife under his coat, and he was taught a rare surgical procedure that was found in the mutilations of more than one of the Ripper victims. 
 
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 "He helped with surgery and is known to have cut up heaps and heaps of cadavers while a student." 
 
 Thompson, originally from Lancashire, moved to London in 1885 with the hope of becoming a successful writer. 
 
 Already addicted to opium, the young poet lived rough in the city until a local prostitute is believed to have offered him a place to stay. 
 
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 Their friendship is thought to have quickly turned into what was Thompson's only romantic relationship. 
 
 Richard believes that the mentally unstable poet snapped after she left him. 
 
 He is going to be publishing his findings in a book, Francis Thompson - a Ripper Suspect. 
 
 In it, he argues that the heartbroken writer started to take out his anger on other sex-workers in the area. 
 
 Richard said: "The moment he told her he was finally published, she said she was leaving him because the public would not understand their relationship. 
 
 "This was after Thompson's year long romance with the woman. 
 
 "Soon before and soon after the murders, he wrote about killing female prostitutes with knives." 
 
 The author's investigation has seen him visit Thompson's home town of Preston, and travel to the United States to view a collection of hand-written letters in Boston.
– Did life imitate art in the case of Jack the Ripper? An Australian English teacher, who claims to have solved the 127-year-old mystery, certainly thinks so, the New York Daily News reports. Richard Patterson believes Jack the Ripper, who killed five London prostitutes over 10 weeks in 1888, was actually poet Francis Thompson. According to the Mirror, Patterson read a book of Thompson's poetry in 1997 and became convinced he was the legendary killer. He's spent the years since attempting to prove his theory. "Soon before and soon after the murders, he wrote about killing female prostitutes with knives," Patterson says. And the Daily News quotes a graphic short story by Thompson about a woman being stabbed to death. In addition to Thompson's grisly writings, Patterson points to his experience as a surgeon and his troubled relationship with a local prostitute, the Mirror reports. Patterson says Thompson kept a dissecting knife under his coat and knew a rare surgical procedure that was used to mutilate some of the victims. He also lived with a prostitute with whom he began a romantic relationship. When that relationship ended, Patterson says Thompson "snapped." "I'm excited that people are beginning to take the theory seriously," says Patterson, who is publishing it in a book. The Jack the Ripper case was eventually closed in 1892, and Thompson died 15 years later, according to the Christian Science Monitor. In the years since the slayings, scholars, amateur sleuths, and others have identified up to 100 suspects. (This Hollywood director thinks Jack the Ripper was actually a popular singer.)