Question 2: Does the evidence of source C support the evidence of sources A and B about the Ripper murders? Explain your answer.
...to find what he wanted what difficulties he would have to contend with and how he should use the knife” this tells us the murder have been committed with a knife which means the murders must have been violent. Source C also supports Source B because Source C uses a similar type of murder weapon to that what was used in Source B. Evidence to support this comes from Source C when it says “In the neck there was a long incision” this tells us that a knife must have been used which supports the evidence in Source B that a knife was the murder weapon. Source C tells us that the murderer must have known where to best cut and kill a victim the quickest. Evidence to support this is when the Source says “a long incision which commenced on the left side”. This supports source B because it states, “no unskilled person could have known where to find the organs” these Sources suggests that the murderer must have been killed be a trained killer who knew what they were doing. Source A has less text than in Sources B and C. This is because Source A is a newspaper (East End Observer) which means that the newspaper might not have all the facts or even the story might have been sensationalised to sell more copies of the newspape. This is because the Sources are both Official documents, which means tha...