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This is a strange and convoluted tale.
It is well known that John Morrison was the first to raise a gravestone to mark the resting place of Mary Jane Kelly in Leytonstone Cemetery in the 1980s.
However I recently read an interview with Alan Moore, author of the graphic novel "From Hell" which casts a rather strange light on the funding of this.
According to Moore, the 1987 film "A Prayer for the Dying" starring Mickey Rourke was filmed in part in Leytonstone Cemetery. Moore says in the interview that the funding for the first gravestone was given to John Morrison by Mickey Rourke. How they came to know each other and how the offer was made - if indeed the story is true - is not made clear.
Alan Moore's words as reported wre:-
"For example, a guy called John Morrison become convinced that the murders were the work of an escaped lunatic called Jimmy Kelly. With some money that I think he got from Mickey Rourke, who had just filmed A Prayer for the Dying at the Leytonstone Cemetery, he had a gravestone put up for Mary Kelly’s previously unmarked gravesite, referring to her as the ‘prima donna of Spitalfields’, which is odd phraseology. It was later taken down and I heard from Iain Sinclair that Morrison now keeps the fragments of the stone cross under his bed."
An odd story - wonder if it's true?
It is well known that John Morrison was the first to raise a gravestone to mark the resting place of Mary Jane Kelly in Leytonstone Cemetery in the 1980s.
However I recently read an interview with Alan Moore, author of the graphic novel "From Hell" which casts a rather strange light on the funding of this.
According to Moore, the 1987 film "A Prayer for the Dying" starring Mickey Rourke was filmed in part in Leytonstone Cemetery. Moore says in the interview that the funding for the first gravestone was given to John Morrison by Mickey Rourke. How they came to know each other and how the offer was made - if indeed the story is true - is not made clear.
Alan Moore's words as reported wre:-
"For example, a guy called John Morrison become convinced that the murders were the work of an escaped lunatic called Jimmy Kelly. With some money that I think he got from Mickey Rourke, who had just filmed A Prayer for the Dying at the Leytonstone Cemetery, he had a gravestone put up for Mary Kelly’s previously unmarked gravesite, referring to her as the ‘prima donna of Spitalfields’, which is odd phraseology. It was later taken down and I heard from Iain Sinclair that Morrison now keeps the fragments of the stone cross under his bed."
An odd story - wonder if it's true?
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