A Jack the Ripper author is investigating a link to East Ayrshire as part of a brand new book.
Swedish author Stefan Rantzow is exploring connections one of the Ripper’s victims had to one of the region’s villages in a bid to find out more about the tragic young woman.
Elizabeth Stride was 44 when the UK’s most notorious murderer, still unknown to this day, killed her in a yard in London on October 6, 1888.