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During the '''autumn of 1979''' senior detectives of the Greater Manchester Police decided to re-activate the £5 note inquiry in an attempt to detect the [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Jean_Jordan_-_Yorkshire_Ripper_Victim Jordan] and [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Vera_Millward_-_Yorkshire_Ripper_Victim Millward] murders. With the full co-operation of the Bank of England and the Midland Bank they were able, by experiment, to eliminate several firms as possible recipients of the £5 note.
There had, of course, always been the possibility that the £5 note had been paid to a customer cashing a cheque at a bank but, on the balance of probabilities, it seemed most likely that the note had been included in money drawn for wages by one of only a few firms in the area. The total number of employees to be seen in this resurrected inquiry was a readily manageable 241. Sutcliffe was number 76 on the list, being 44th of 49 employees from the firm of T & W.H. Clark Ltd.