15 OCTOBER 1888 'JACK THE RIPPER' POSTS A GRUESOME MEMENTO
In autumn 1888, George Lusk, chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London’s East End, receives a strange parcel in the evening post. The accompanying letter, scrawled in ungrammatical English and purporting to be sent “From hell”, claims that its author has consumed half of a woman’s kidney –