The Books

For nearly 100 years, the question has repeatedly been asked: who was ‘Jack the Ripper’? The real question that should be answered however, is why? Why were five poor, defenceless women savagely murdered in the slums of Whitechapel in the Autumn of 1888?

Credible Victorian sources; including an Old Etonian police chief (Sir Melville Macnaghten), a famous writer on true crime (George R. Sims), a Conservative M.P. (Henry Farquharson) and, most incriminatingly, members of the killer’s own family knew that ‘Jack the Ripper’ was Montague John Druitt. He had escaped earthly justice by drowning himself in the Thames.

This book answers the question of why in 1888 Druitt, a barrister, part-time teacher and first-class cricketer, killed and mutilated women driven into prostitution due to social neglect.

Compiled from years of meticulous research The Escape of Jack the Ripper: The Full Truth About the Cover-Up and His Flight From Justice moves between the suffering of impoverished Whitechapel to genteel London society, picturesque Dorset, the Inner Temple and the anonymity of the private asylums of France and England. The struggle of Druitt’s desperate, respectable family to cover-up up for their dead Montie, whilst preventing any innocent person being hung for his crimes, is told here for the very first time.

In the Edwardian era, Sir Melville and G. R. Sims ensured that the public understood that the long deceased Whitechapel fiend was neither poor nor an immigrant, but rather, like it or not, was once a shining product of the British establishment.

Containing many never before published photographs including the debut of the newly discovered last known image taken of M. J. Druitt as an adult.