Psychic detective: I told you so… By Alex Mita

PSYCHIC detective Robert Cracknell, the man who helped solve the Yorkshire Ripper murders in the UK in the 70s, told the Cyprus Mail yesterday he felt there would be more sniper attacks in the US, despite Thursday’s arrest of John Allen Muhammad, 41, and his 17-year-old stepson John Lee Malvo.

Cracknell claims he had predicted there were two people involved in the attacks in Washington and knew of their arrest a day before it happened.

“I received an email on my website on Sunday October 20 asking me if there was any insight I could provide the FBI on the case,” he said.

In his reply email on Wednesday, Cracknell said his general feelings about the case were that the perpetrator was not acting alone and was not an American citizen of long standing, and predicted that an arrest was imminent.

“Normally when I get involved in a case like this I find it preferable to be on the ground so to speak,” he said in his email.

“So I can get only general feelings about this case, i.e. the perpetrator is not acting alone and is not an American citizen of long standing. I also feel that an arrest is imminent, but sadly I feel that after a period of time it may well start up again. There is also a female involvement and I do not totally rule out a politically motivated group.”

However, Cracknell might have been a little wrong regarding the nationality of the perpetrator since according to the Press Association, Muhammad, formerly known as John Allen Williams was born and bred in Baton Rouge in Louisiana and only converted to Islam in 1985. However, his stepson Malvo appears to come from Trinidad.

Cracknell is currently living in Cyprus and is currently set to re-publish his book The Casebook of a Psychic Detective, the sequel of his autobiography on December 1.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.