How can you tell whether that's a masonic handshake or not?
I just shook hands with Sarah, as naturally as possible, and without telling her what I was looking for, and we each had our thumbs on each other's 2nd knuckle (which means we must be fellow craft masons

) like in that picture - in fact their thumbs seem longer so look as if they're extending to in between the 2nd & 3rd knuckles of each other's hands.
I'm not rooting for it
not to be a masonic handshake in the picture (I know the media have reported Sutcliffe was one) - just don't know how anyone can be base any beliefs on that photo.
I've just now shown my husband the photo, & here's what he said.
"It's impossible to know for sure, because people's thumbs do tend to touch each other's knuckles when they shake, in which case, the knuckle they touch would depend purely on the length of their thumbs - Bruno's got big hands.
It doesn't
look like it's masonic to me though, because when you're reaching your thumb for a knuckle, the hands tend to automatically be palm / back of hand parallel with the floor, instead of sideways on, because the indicative knuckle touch is a slight squeeze.
Also, if they were masons, they would never be likely to give that shake in front of any camera, no matter how secure they felt, because it's not the done thing - or if they did, it would be likely to be a 2 handed shake, with each of their left hands covering the others right."
I asked if he knew if Saville had been a mason, & he said, "Was he bollocks", and also something about Frank Bruno being too thick to be a mason.
I asked him what a 32nd degree mason is (which is what Sutcliffe is reported as being) and he said you have to be in the Rose Croix. He doesn't know much about that, as he's not in it. So I asked if they use the same handshakes as the others, and he said he doesn't know, but probably not.
*Edit* And Dawn, I think the consensus here has been all along that Saville & his ilk are the enemy of all decent human beings. Nobody's sought to defend him in the least.