For this video, we head back to September 1888. The Whitechapel murderer as far as the police, press, and general public were concerned had claimed the lives of four victims - Emma Elizabeth Smith, Martha Tabram, Mary Nichols, and Annie Chapman.

The police were stepping up their inquiries, not just in the Whitechapel district where the atrocities had been carried out, but across the whole of the Victorian Metropolis.

Anyone who seemed slightly strange, or who was considered to be suspicious-looking was likely to be questioned by police constables on the beat, as well as by one of the hundreds of detectives who were out across London keeping keen eyes peeled for the perpetrator of the crimes.

It was against this backdrop that a labourer by the name of Edward Quinn went out for a drink one night. On his way to the pub, so he later claimed, he stumbled and fell, cutting his hands and bruising his face.

Dusting himself down, he headed into the pub, where things suddenly took a decidedly awkward turn for him.

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