In the early hours of Friday, July 2nd, 1909, Kate "Kitty" Roman - whose surname was spelt in many newspaper accounts of the crime as "Ronan" - was found murdered in her room, number 12 Miller's Court, off Dorset Street, in Spitalfields.
In this video you will learn how Kitty, like many of the women in Victorian Spitalfields was leading a transient existence in the common lodging houses of the district, until, in March 1909, she had taken up with a a man by the name of Henry Benstead.
He last saw her alive on Commercial Street on the evening of the 1st of July.
The video then investigates the final sightings of Kitty, before describing how Benstead arrived home at 1.3am and found her body on the bed of their room in Miller's Court.
At first, it seemed as though, just like the murder of Mary Kelly, the last victim of Jack the Ripper, whose body had been found in her room, 13 Miller's Court, the perpetrator of Kitty Roman's murder was also going to escape justice.
But then, a few weeks later, Harold Hall walked into a police station in Bristol and said that he was wanted for a murder he had committed in London.
The video then tells the full story of his arrest, his return to London and of hi trail at the Old Bailey, at which he was sentenced to death.
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