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They have been a grisly staple of the tourist scene for decades - but Jack the Ripper walking tours have been dropped by the Ordnance Survey library of maps.<br>Britain's official mapping body has until recently provided a route salaciously entitled ‘Guts and Garters in the Ripper's East End' for tourists to take in the [/news/london/index.html London] sites of the unsolved 1888 killings, giving chilling details of the ways in which the five victims died.<br>But following complaints about the glorification of the unnamed killer, the map for the three-mile route through [http://www.search.com/search?q=Whitechapel Whitechapel] is no longer available.<br>         They have been a grisly staple of the tourist scene for decades - but Jack the Ripper walking tours have been dropped by the Ordnance Survey library of maps.<br><br>The aftermath of one suspected Ripper murder is depicted in an engraving<br>Ordnance Survey last week said it has been removed following a request from the AA, which helps supply online material for its maps. <br>The AA confirmed this saying the Ripper [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-ha-giang-cao-nguyen-da-dong-van-3-ngay-2-dem.html tour du lịch hà giang] ‘did not meet current editorial standards'.<br>Author Hallie Rubenhold, who has written a book about the victims' lives called The Five, agrees with Ordnance Survey's decision. <br>   RELATED ARTICLES  [# Previous] [# 1] [# Next]     [/news/article-8610349/Bid-unmask-Jack-Ripper-forensic-evidence-final-victim-thwarted-Catholic-church.html  Bid to unmask Jack the Ripper with forensic evidence from...] [/news/article-8243269/The-murders-foul-Did-Beast-Belgravia-actually-butcher-ELEVEN-people.html  The murders most foul: He was jailed for the callous...]    <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>She said: ‘Jack the Ripper tours have existed since the day of the first murder, but just because we did it a long time ago doesn't make it right.'<br>John Biggs, mayor of Tower Hamlets, which includes Whitechapel, also backed the decision as the borough ‘objected to the commercialisation of violence against women and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-ha-giang-cao-nguyen-da-dong-van-3-ngay-2-dem.html tour hà nội hà giang] girls'.<br>Rupert Wheeler, chairman of local preservation group the Spitalfields Society, however, said that the Ripper story remained a part of Whitechapel's history, adding: ‘It isn't going to go away just because you don't talk about it.'<br>