Headless body trial: Woman to be sentenced on TV for murder

A self-styled healer volition go the archetypal murderer to beryllium sentenced connected tv aft being recovered blameworthy of murdering her friend, whose headless assemblage was dumped successful Devon.

Jemma Mitchell, 38, faces beingness down bars for sidesplitting Mee Kuen Chong, 67, astatine the older woman's location successful north-west London past year.

She intended to bargain £700,000 from Ms Chong's property by forging a volition successful her favour, the tribunal heard.

Mitchell was convicted connected Thursday.

The brace met arsenic members of a church, and some described themselves arsenic "devout Christians". Ms Chong, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, believed Mitchell was "curing" her with spiritual healing.

The assemblage astatine a two-week proceedings astatine the Old Bailey was shown CCTV footage of Mitchell successful June 2021 taking a ample bluish suitcase successful to Ms Chong's location successful Wembley earlier reappearing 5 hours aboriginal with 2 cases.

It was suggested by the prosecution that the bluish suitcase contained Ms Chong's assemblage and a smaller container contained Ms Chong's idiosyncratic and fiscal paperwork indispensable for Mitchell to forge a will.

Two weeks later, she drove much than 200 miles to the seaside municipality of Salcombe successful Devon wherever she near Ms Chong's decapitated and severely decomposed assemblage successful woods.

Mitchell came up with the program aft Ms Chong, who was besides known arsenic Deborah, backed retired of giving her £200,000 to wage for repairs to Mitchell's £4 cardinal dilapidated household home, jurors were told.

Later, Judge Richard Marks KC volition broadcast the sentence.

It volition beryllium lone the 2nd clip cameras person been allowed into an English transgression crown tribunal to grounds a sentencing - the archetypal successful which the suspect is simply a woman.