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That might be Trevor Marriot you're thinking of. He fought an expensive and unsuccessful legal case with Scotland Yard to get classified papers released - the papers in question are something like 900 pages of information collected from informants between 1888 and 1912, some of which might relate to the Ripper inquiry. Iirc he did get them to name four "new" suspects, but that was all.
His books aren't really taken very seriously though, sorry to say. He's a bit sloppy with his facts and is also one of those writers who claims to have solved the case which generally results in an unfavourable reputation among serious historians.
His most recent theory is that there was no Jack the Ripper, and that the whole thing was cooked up by journalists from a handful of unrelated killings.
Thanks by the way - I was just curious if you knew something we didn't :)
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