EIGHT
ESCALATION
Allow me to now trek back in time once more, back to the dark and murky, crime-infested streets of the East End of London, in the year 1888. Such a time slip is necessary in order for me to illustrate the odd connections that began to come together in the beautiful seaside town of Brighton in our own time. Of course, as events began to unfold no-one made any connection between the events in London so long ago and what was taking place in Brighton. At least, not in the beginning.
In the early hours of the morning of 31st August 1888, the body of forty-three-year-old prostitute Mary Ann Nichols, known locally as ‘Polly’, was discovered by two men, Charles Cross and Robert Paul in a doorway on Buck’s Row, Whitechapel. Three police constables were on the scene within five m
