When tarot card reader Jayne Braiden usually turns over the more sinister cards, she can sense her customers’ fear and dread.

But after one client was dealt the blasted tower, emperor card and devil card, she watched as he broke down in tears and confessed to stabbing his housemate to death.

Miss Braiden, 56, had been giving a reading to Star Randel-Hanson at her shop in Brighton when he revealed the crime.

And despite calling 999 for help, she was told it was not an emergency by an operator who thought the call was a hoax.

Mr Randel-Hanson, 56, met Mr Marney at the Brotherhood Gate spiritualist church in Brighton in 2013 and moved in together and shared a bed, but were not a couple or lovers, a court heard.