Conspiracy to suppress the identity of JTR?

[Herlock Sholmes]

If two or more people decide to keep quiet about something - is that a conspiracy?
If the guilty party confesses to a priest, and they keep it to themselves, is that a conspiracy?

Yeah, good point Wick. But I suppose that if, as Jon Hainsworth believes, they engaged in a plan to actively misinform the public by hiding Druitt’s identity then might that be called a conspiracy of a kind?

[Wickerman]

If two or more people decide to keep quiet about something - is that a conspiracy?
If the guilty party confesses to a priest, and they keep it to themselves, is that a conspiracy?

[APerno]

No conspiracy; no conspiracy to kill the victims, and no conspiracy to cover-up any any evidence that might have led to an arrest. Just a misogynist psychopath (disorganized/opportunist marauder) suffering from piquerism. JTR was incapable of formulating even a complex plan of attack, never mind maintaining the complicated social relations necessary for a conspiracy; me thinks this guy didn't even have friends.

Besides, the likelihood that five people acting together, finding a common cause to kill 'unfortunates' would probably never all turn out to be psychopaths and the killings would never have been so gruesome. As a conspiracy, the killings would have been done professionally or possibly by ritual; had there been a conspiracy the women most likely would have just disappeared.

I maintain that Saucy Jacky was JUST a serial killer and nothing more; just one more broken human-being that the contemporaneous press, and then later on historians, have tried to make more of; they want a "Moriarty" Ripper. Conspiracy theories lend themselves to that agenda.

But the truth is as sad as it appears to be, he was just another loser who murdered women.

[Herlock Sholmes]

JJ Hainsworth’s theory is a possibility. I don’t believe in large far-reaching conspiracies though.

[mpriestnall]

Was there a conspiracy to suppress the identity of JTR at around the time of the murders?

Optionally give reasons for your choice. If you think there was
a conspiracy, please state who, why etc.