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A Jack the Ripper mural – are you serious? How the Eastenders hit back – The Guardian
They have a Jack the Clipper barber and a Jack the Chipper fish shop. But a mural of the murderer leering proved too much for some horrified residents of London…
A demented face leers through a hole in the wall, his blood-spattered fingers gripping the shattered brickwork as he stares at passersby on the pavement below. This enormous, utterly grim trompe-lil image appeared in Londons East End in March just before lockdown unsettling many Spitalfields locals. But when people realised that the mural, by street artist Zabou, was supposed to be a modern representation of Jack the Ripper, they were horrified.
I, too, had seen the bowler-hatted man face cover…
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