Jack The Ripper was a popular singer songwriter who was protected by the police in the Freemasons who sabotaged evidence so he could avoid capture, a new book claims.
The explosive new theory comes from Bruce Robinson, the author of Withnail and I, who has spent 15 years on the mystery that has plagued historians since the five victims were killed in 1888.
He claims he is now almost certain that the killer was Michael Maybrick, a popular singer of the time, who was ‘protected by servants of the Victorian state’.