Tom Holland

And they're swelled by the fact that it's the Lord Mayor's show.

And as the news of the murder has swept the crowds in the city of London, so huge numbers have left the route of the procession and started flocking into Whitechapel in a kind of state of mass hysteria.

And when...

mary jane's body is brought out by the police and laid onto the cart the police who are keeping order in dorset street have to form a cordon to hold the crowds back and a journalist from the times the next morning reported on this the crowd was of the humblest class but the demeanor of the poor people was all that could be desired ragged caps were doffed and slatternly looking women shed tears as the shell covered with a ragged looking cloth was placed in the van

And then the inquests are held.

And 10 days later, when Mary Kelly's funeral is held at Shoreditch Church, no family member could be found to attend the funeral.

So she remains a mystery.

Instead, riding in the two morning carriages that are accompanying the hearse to the Catholic cemetery in Leytonston,

are six women who had known her.

And these include Elizabeth Prater and Sarah Lewis, the two women who had heard the cry of murder at 4 a.m.

A mourner representing John McCarthy, her landlord, and Joseph Barnett.

And it was Barnett who had insisted that she should be buried as a Catholic.

So I think clearly he believed that she was Irish because obviously, you know, if she'd been Welsh, he would have directed her to a Methodist chapel or something.

Yeah, of course.

And it's also Barnett who insists that her name on both the kind of the brass coffin plate and on her gravestone should read Marie Jeannette Kelly.

yes she was clearly a woman who enjoyed attention and she certainly gets attention at her funeral because huge crowds gather to watch the procession and women sob and again men are doffing their caps as the open hearse passes by and as you you suggest dominic um

In death, she's become what I think she had always dreamed of being, which is essentially the heroine of a melodrama.

No matter how dark and terrible the melodrama has actually turned out to be.

And bystanders weep at the thought of the fate that has befallen her.

And they pray to God to forgive her.