Just two days after the shocking discovery in New Street, near Whitechapel — where PC James Thomas Reeve was found dead beside the mutilated body of Miss Clara Fenwick — a leaked internal memorandum from the City of London Police has thrown the official narrative into disarray.

The document, dated 27th November and marked “Confidential – For Internal Circulation Only”, was reportedly issued from the Superintendent’s Office at Bishopsgate and circulated among senior officers. It suggests that the circumstances surrounding Reeve’s death may not be as conclusive as first presumed.

The memo raises the possibility that a “person of unsound mind, perhaps bearing a personal grievance,” may have imitated the Ripper’s methods in order to cast suspicion upon Reeve.

This theory stands in stark contrast to Monday’s reports, which declared Reeve the infamous killer based on the presence of a silver locket engraved “J.T.R.” found in his grasp, and the grotesque similarity between Fenwick’s wounds and those attributed to the Ripper.

The public, however, is already speculating — and loudly. Was Reeve truly the Ripper? Or has London been misled by a deeper deception? Could the real killer still be at large?

The City of London Police has made no official comment on the leak. But the streets of Whitechapel are once again thick with rumour — and fear.