The two books mentioned in the video are:-

Inside Buck's Row - By Steven E. Blomer, which can be bought from his Facebook page
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Cutting Point - By Christer Holmgren, which is available from Amazon.
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If anyone is named as a major suspect in the eternal quest to find the identity of Jack the Ripper, then the most important factor in assessing them as a viable candidate is putting them at the scene of the at the time when the murders were taking place. The case against any suspect falls apart if this cannot be done.

In recent years, one person, who most certainly was at the scene of a Jack the Ripper crime at around the time that it took place is Charles Allen Lechmere.

But look for him in any contemporary accounts of the Whitechapel murders and you will find that he is conspicuous by his absence. There is no mention of Charles Lechmere in any newspaper reports or official documents on the case.

But he is there, albeit he has been better known to students of the Ripper murders, as Charles Cross, the Pickfords carman who found the body of the first of the canonical five victims - Mary Nichols.

Cross was, in fact, the surname of his stepfather, a police constable by the name of Thomas Cross, and, for some reason, Lechmere gave his name as Charles Cross when he testified at the inquest into the death of Mary Nichols.

However, this has raised a red flag with some researchers, and they have used this apparent deceit to suggest that Charles Allen Lechmere was not the finder of the body of Mary Nichols, but was, in fact, but that he was, in fact, her murderer. They then go on to put him in the frame for the wider series of Whitechapel murders, and as the perpetrator of another series of crimes that took place around the same time - the Thames Torso murders.

In this video, Steve Blomer - author of "Inside Buck's Row" - and Richard Jones weigh up the evidence against Charles Allen Lechmere, and assess the viability of the case against him based on the few facts that we know about him.

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