Forgive a silly question but...

[Wickerman]

Where did you read the man seen by Lawende had blood on his hands?

[The Cenci]

...I've just taken a Ripper Walk and due to the location being a little out of the way we didn't visit Henriques St. I've just looked it up to see how far away it is from Mitre Square and it seems to me to be a little out of then way if the killer was, as many suppose, residing in deepest Whitechapel.

If the killer of Stride and Eddowes is the same man, would he still have blood on his hands when he was still talking to Eddowes as witnessed by Lawende? Or did he clean himself up and head back out into the streets?

I suppose what I'm asking is, is there grounds for suspecting that he lived somewhere between Berners St and Mitre Square and headed in that direction to avoid the police investigating Stride's death as well as the Lipski witness, and did he drop Eddowes' apron in Goulsten St - the other side of Whitechapel and Commercial Rd, to lay a false scent.

Just a thought.