Cochise
Priest of the cult of the Dog with the Broken Paw
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Um, well, I don't totally rule that out, because all of this is 'opinion' until someone comes up with some peer-reviewed science.
But this is not a full DNA match, its mitochondrial DNA, so a) it only matches to within several thousand people and b) a 100% match would actually be proof that the DNA was NOT from Eddowes/Kosminski, as the samples for comparison come from descendants, not the actual subjects.
Couple that with the fact that it has been recovered by a 'new technique' apparently unknown to anyone else, and it all tends to smell a bit Maybrickian.
Even if it is all eventually peer-reviewed and proven, it is only extra circumstantial evidence, and any defence council will simply point out that Mr Kosminski, his client (whichever Kosminski it is - the police never mentioned his first name) admits he uses the services of prostitutes and the semen must have got on the cloth at some point prior to the murder.
But this is not a full DNA match, its mitochondrial DNA, so a) it only matches to within several thousand people and b) a 100% match would actually be proof that the DNA was NOT from Eddowes/Kosminski, as the samples for comparison come from descendants, not the actual subjects.
Couple that with the fact that it has been recovered by a 'new technique' apparently unknown to anyone else, and it all tends to smell a bit Maybrickian.
Even if it is all eventually peer-reviewed and proven, it is only extra circumstantial evidence, and any defence council will simply point out that Mr Kosminski, his client (whichever Kosminski it is - the police never mentioned his first name) admits he uses the services of prostitutes and the semen must have got on the cloth at some point prior to the murder.