Tucked away behind a slew of coffee bars, tech start-ups and trendy eateries stands what must surely be one of London’s most undesirable addresses. It is neither house nor flat, but a tented encampment under a graffiti-covered bridge sandwiched between two railway lines in Shoreditch.
Little more than a mile from the City, local historians fancy that Jack the Ripper used this pocket of the capital as a cut-through when he was terrorising nearby Whitechapel in the 1880s. Scenes from the horror film Omen III were shot here in more recent times.
When The Mail on Sunday visited last week, not even
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