A true crime enthusiast is marking the 100-year anniversary of a grisly killing with a discount on her murder and mayhem tours.

Customers to Kelly Mulligan’s tours hear the murderous stories and ghostly tales behind Brighton’s famous landmarks, such as the chocolate cream poisoner, the Brighton trunk murders and the ghost of the Theatre Royal.

Kelly’s 100th tour coincides with the 100 year anniversary of the murder of prostitute Maud Clifford who was found in a blood-soaked bed with a bullet in her head in North Road.

Her jealous husband Percy, who tried to kill himself after the murder, was convicted and hanged at Lewes in 1914.

Walkers are also taken to the ancient St. Nicholas’ church and graveyard, where Phoebe Hessel, Martha Gunn and Captain Nicholas Tettersell are buried.

Hessel famously posed as a man in the army in the 1700s to be with her lover, and lived to the age of 108.

‘Queen of Dippers’ Martha Gunn helped fashionable ladies in and out of the sea during the Regency period using bathing machines – huts to protect women’s modesty from prying eyes.

Captain Nicholas Tettersell was the owner of the Old Ship Hotel which he bought with money from King Charles II, who he helped escape to France in 1651 after the Battle of Worcester.

Kelly said: “There’s no-one else that really does tours like mine. We have people from all over the world who come along from every nationality – plus local people as well. I have carried out over 100 tours and it’s been very eventful.

“Once, when I stopped at The Market Inn and told my walkers it had been a brothel and that George IV had been a customer, aman sitting outside at one of the tables replied ‘Yes, and I ran it.

“AtWykeham Terrace a woman was walking through the entrance arch and then stopped and told the group that she was from Wiltshire and she knew all about the murder of Francis Saville Kent in the village of Rode in Wiltshire. The strange coincidence was that she was visiting a friend who lived in Wykeham Terrace, the actual building where Constance Kent confessed to the murder.”

To mark the anniversaries of the Maud Clifford murder on April 7 and Brighton Trunk Murders on June 17 adult tickets will be £5 instead of the usual £8.

It runs every night of the week except Sundays starting at The Victory Inn, Duke Street, Brighton at 7:30 p.m.

For more details go to www.visit brighton.com/things-to-do/brightonmurder- and-mayhem-tour-p947401.