A lot of fuss was made about Prince Albert Victor being a suspect in the murders, in fact he wasn't at the time he only became a suspect in 1970 when Dr Thomas E. A. Stowell made a totally false claim that the prince was the murderer within days he retracted his claim and since then it has been proved that the prince was not involved although some people still believe it.
In the German language version the narrator gives the date of death of Mary Ann Nichols as August 31, 1988. Clearly a mispronunciation.
The location of the murder of Elizabeth Stride is incorrectly called and the gates into the yard, labeled at Duffields Yard. It was in fact Dutfields Yard, named after one of
the businesses previously located there run by Arthur Dutfield, who ran a van and cart building business there until two years earlier in 1886. At the time of the murder on September 30th 1888, he ran his business from nearby 10-18 Pinchin Street.
Abberline says when looking at the bust of Charles Darwin that Darwin had said that man is descended from the ape, which is a common misstatement. Darwin never wrote or said that. He said that man and ape have common ancestors.
In reality, actor Richard Mansfield used an elaborate makeup trick to transform from Mr. Hyde back into Dr. Jekyll, not the other way around as portrayed here. This also makes the scene Mansfield is playing out when the characters visit the theatre incorrect also. It appears to be the scene where Dr. Jekyll transforms in the presence of fellow doctor Dr. Lanyon, but it was into Jekyll he transforms in the story not Hyde.
A brick is thrown through a window which clearly hits a character (a child). Although this is initially quite shocking to see, it then becomes clear that this an error as it doesn't cause any apparent or implied injury. The 'brick' is clearly harmless and rolls off the child in the next shot.
The wooden gate in the wall to the red brick building in the background of the crime scene at Buck's Row was also used for the exterior shots of the Whitechapel mortuary office.
When Sergeant Godley shows a copy of the Star newspaper to Inspector Abberline inside the jail cell, the camera focuses on the title "Have Police Lost Control?", but the corresponding article is related to the British and Belgian colonial empires,not the Whitechapel murders.
Robert Lees is portrayed as a clean shaven bachelor when in fact he was a married man with a beard.