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For those who attended The The Whitechapel Conference in London last weekend will recall that I mentioned two Ripper enthusiasts were setting up two specific E Petition sites with a view to lobbying the British government into to de-classifying and make public all files and papers relating to The Whitechapel Murders which have not yet been made public. These two person are based in Canada and here in the UK and I have to thank them for taking the time to set all of this up.
I was dissapointed to see comments on JTR forums from two respected researchers who in my opinion should have known better. Both poured water on this project, both went to great lengths to elablorate on how wonderful they were and that they had tried to get access etc, and highlighted how they had failed.
The E Petitions encompass anything ripper related which may be found in The Special Branch ledgers and registers which were the subject of a lengthy Freedom Of Infprmation appeal. We already know of "new" Ripper related material has been found in them and until they are examined in greater detail we cannot say for sure if any more will be found.
These petitions also encompass MEPO 38 to which part of is still retained by Special Branch and has not been made public. It is known that within this file there are files relating to other important cases that SB were involved and had an interet in so there may be Ripper related files of papers amongs these undisclosed files.
In respect of MEPO 38 I currently have another freedom of information of information request in place to gain access to these files. However having regards to the previous case I am not particulary confident that this will succeed.
As far as that previous appeal was concerned for those who are not already aware I did appeal the tribunals decison on a point of law which the Judge agreed with. However they have the power to simply amend the written decision which they did stating that although the wording in the decsion notice was wrong in law, it did not effect the overall decsion of the tribunal.
So now these petitions may be the last chance to save these records etc. The Metropolitan Police are likley to destroy the originals of the registers and the ledgers so these petitions must be treated with urgency to try to save them.
The UK site can be found at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/18403 only UK residents and citizens can vote on this site.
Everyone else worldwide, including UK residents and citizens the relevant site is
I have asked Stephen Ryder if he would be consider mailing details of these sites to all casebook members both past and present and whose details still remain on the database, and await a response.
If 100.000 signatures can be obtained there is a chance that this will force the British Government to discuss this in Parliament. So your vote would help the cause. Please feel free to pass these details onto any others who you may have on your e mail list who may wish to support this action.
"Failure is not an option"
For those who attended The The Whitechapel Conference in London last weekend will recall that I mentioned two Ripper enthusiasts were setting up two specific E Petition sites with a view to lobbying the British government into to de-classifying and make public all files and papers relating to The Whitechapel Murders which have not yet been made public. These two person are based in Canada and here in the UK and I have to thank them for taking the time to set all of this up.
I was dissapointed to see comments on JTR forums from two respected researchers who in my opinion should have known better. Both poured water on this project, both went to great lengths to elablorate on how wonderful they were and that they had tried to get access etc, and highlighted how they had failed.
The E Petitions encompass anything ripper related which may be found in The Special Branch ledgers and registers which were the subject of a lengthy Freedom Of Infprmation appeal. We already know of "new" Ripper related material has been found in them and until they are examined in greater detail we cannot say for sure if any more will be found.
These petitions also encompass MEPO 38 to which part of is still retained by Special Branch and has not been made public. It is known that within this file there are files relating to other important cases that SB were involved and had an interet in so there may be Ripper related files of papers amongs these undisclosed files.
In respect of MEPO 38 I currently have another freedom of information of information request in place to gain access to these files. However having regards to the previous case I am not particulary confident that this will succeed.
As far as that previous appeal was concerned for those who are not already aware I did appeal the tribunals decison on a point of law which the Judge agreed with. However they have the power to simply amend the written decision which they did stating that although the wording in the decsion notice was wrong in law, it did not effect the overall decsion of the tribunal.
So now these petitions may be the last chance to save these records etc. The Metropolitan Police are likley to destroy the originals of the registers and the ledgers so these petitions must be treated with urgency to try to save them.
The UK site can be found at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/18403 only UK residents and citizens can vote on this site.
Everyone else worldwide, including UK residents and citizens the relevant site is
I have asked Stephen Ryder if he would be consider mailing details of these sites to all casebook members both past and present and whose details still remain on the database, and await a response.
If 100.000 signatures can be obtained there is a chance that this will force the British Government to discuss this in Parliament. So your vote would help the cause. Please feel free to pass these details onto any others who you may have on your e mail list who may wish to support this action.
"Failure is not an option"
seriously this won't prevent me from sleeping at night!!! CAAAAM AWAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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