Jack The Ripper, in Fact and Fiction: By Robin Odell

Terror struck the streets of London in the Autumn of 1888, the reason? A series of of brutal, mysterious and apparently motiveless murders. The higher classes hid behind shuttered windows when ironically they had nothing to fear, it was the lower working classes that the murder targeted, the women with no other choice to walk the streets at night, haunting the dark alleyways and doorways looking for business – the prostitutes.