West Yorkshire Police has confirmed to Yorkshire Bylines that at 2.56pm on Saturday, 12 October they received a report of possible human organs being found by a member of the public in Middleton Park, Leeds. Officers and crime scene investigators attended the site of the reported incident only to find none other than Dame Andrea Jenkyns waiting for them, for she was the intrepid member of the public who summoned the police to this grisly scene.
The officers were able to confirm that the remains were those of an animal, not a human and that there were no suspicious circumstances. A classic case of ‘nothing to see here, move along please madam’.
Ritual sacrifices and imaginary friends
But Jenkyns seemed to have misunderstood. She took to social media where she posted a photograph she had taken of the entirely non-suspicious animal entrails, claiming that the police told her that they think it was most probably a “sacrificial ritual” (these rituals are, according to Jenkyns’s version of events, on the increase in Leeds and indeed all over the UK!).
She went on to demand that the home secretary investigate (personally, or via the Area Ritual Sacrifice Experts?!).
Jenkyns ends her post, which has to date been seen 1.6 million times on X (formerly Twitter) with:
“These evil people who begin with animals, what else are they capable of?”
They’re eating the pets!
What is Jenkyns trying to suggest? This has the feel of Donald Trump’s bizarre assertions that Haitian migrants were eating the pets of the residents in Springfield, Ohio and although most responses to her tweet are rightfully mocking her, there are a few who have immediately tied Jenkyn’s sacrificial ritual story to immigration. A few is all it takes.
After the events in the summer, one would have hoped that a former member of parliament would know better than to post far-fetched claims such as this on social media.
West Yorkshire Police has confirmed to Yorkshire Bylines that the remains belonged to an animal, there were no suspicious circumstances and nothing to suggest it was linked to any ritual.
As Jenkyns herself says: “It is a scary thought to think such people live among us.”
