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The victim was Elizabeth Stride, a forty-five-year-old occasional prostitute from Gothenburg, Sweden. Elizabeth Stride had been in an on/off relationship with a waterside labourer, Michael Kidney, who lived on Devonshire Street, Mile End. Their final separation was only five days before Stride’s murder. When Stride was not staying with Kidney, she frequently slept at 32 Flower and Dean Street - a doss house run by a woman named Elizabeth Tanner. According to Tanner, Stride was a charwoman by profession, and in the months prior to her murder, she had been "at work among the Jews" cleaning houses. Tanner claimed that Stride was a sober and quiet woman, but in reality she was an alcoholic who had been fined a number of times for drunk and disorderly behaviour at Thames Magistrate Court. Like many downtrodden women living in the East End, Stride resorted to prostitution when she couldn’t find work.
== Early Life ==
Elizabeth Stride was originally from Gothenburg in Sweden.
