Man, 51, had to phone police in Brighton instead and has since been arrested over fatal stabbing of Jillian Howell, 46A murder suspect tried to hand himself in at a police station but had to phone officers instead because the front desk was closed. He then phoned 999 while standing outside and officers later found the body of Jillian Howell, a 46-year-old Samaritans volunteer, at a house in Sandgate Road. A Sussex police spokesman said: “The man called 999 from outside the police station in John Street, Brighton, which is operational 24 hours a day. “The time from when officers were deployed to when they were with the man was less than a minute. The front desk of the station was not open at the time that the man called, but this would not have made any difference to the response time.”

Source: The Guardian October 27, 2017 16:34 UTC