Mike Covell’s Blogg

They state,
“But perhaps the most bizarre and intriguing link is between The Royal Albion Hotel and Jack the Ripper. In his 2002 book, Jack the Ripper’s Black Magic Rituals, former career criminal turned author Ivor Edwards claims that the infamous killer was, in fact, Satan-worshipper(Wrong) Robert Donston Stephenson, a trained surgeon(Wrong) (pictured left), who prepared for the Ripper killings by committing a murder in the hotel itself!(Wrong)”

Should I go on? They then state,

“Prior to his move to Whitechapel in east London in July 1888, 47-year-old Stephenson lived above The Cricketers pub in Brighton’s Black Lion Street, which was a well-known haunt for prostitutes. As Aleister Crowley had done before him, Edwards hypothesises in his book that the Ripper mutilated his victims in occult ritual murders(Wrong). Stephenson, who was also known as Dr. Roslyn D’Onston and who wrote about the murders for the Pall Mall Gazette under the pen-name Tau Tria Delta(Wrong), was arrested at least twice by the police in connection with the murders, but was released without charge(Evidence?).”

Good to see they have done their research, and not just copied and pasted the report from a newspaper report, written years ago…

“Before then, in June 1888, psychic researcher Edmund Gurney received a letter telling him to travel to Brighton. Without explaining his reasons to either family or friends, he checked into The Royal Albion Hotel on the 22nd. He was found dead he following morning with a pad soaked in chloroform over his face. The coroner’s verdict was accidental death. According to Edwards, Gurney was murdered because he was investigating Madame Bravatsky, a well-known occultist and a friend(They didn’t even know each other at this point, but do go on!) of Stephenson, who at the time was living only a two-minute walk from the hotel and who was reputedly addicted to chloroform. The day after the inquest(Which was held in June, but you earlier claimed July), Stephenson left Brighton and moved to London. Shortly thereafter the Ripper’s first victim, prostitute Mary Ann Nichols, was discovered on August 31st…(A month afterwards is not really “Shortly”)”

“Stephenson himself published a book in 1904 entitled The Patristic Gospels, before apparently disappearing without a trace(Except in the 1910 Census). No death certificate has ever been found.(Wrong, his death certificate, burial records have been found)

Anyway, I am sure Trading Standards would be interested in such false claims!