Lizzie Albrook was a twenty-year-old woman who lived in Miller's Court and who knew Mary Kelly on account of the fact that they were near neighbours.
In the aftermath of Mary Kelly's murder, a journalist from a press agency arrived in Dorset Street to see what copy he could obtain. Since the police weren't giving anything away - in fact they were point blank refusing to speak to reporters - the journalist began chatting with the locals in order to glean any information he could about what they knew.
It was in the course of his inquiries that he appears to have come across Lizzie Albrook, who, so it transpired, was more than willing to grant him an interview.
She told him that she had stopped by Mary Kelly's room on the night before the murder, and had chatted with Mary Kelly, who expressed her profound regrets at the type of life she was being forced to lead in order to keep herself from starvation.
Lizzie's statement, if it was true, provides us with an intriguing, though poignant, glimpse of Mary kelly in life, and of her frame of mind in the final hours of her life.
