The singer has written lyrics about these events on the Whitechapel albums The Valley (2019) and Kin (2022). “I was put on Zoloft, and that basically numbed me for 30 years,” he adds.

When the third victim of Jack the Ripper, Annie Chapman, was found in the yard of the Berner Street theatre, where the Worker’s Friend was printed, the Whitechapel community blamed the murders ...