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An “evil woman” risks life imprisonment for killing her friend and dumping her headless body more than two hundred miles away to inherit her estate.
Self-proclaimed alternative therapist and healer Jemma Mitchell hit Kuen Chong, 67, in the head with a gun at her London home in June last year, she said.
Two weeks later, he travelled to the beach in the town of Salcombe, Devon, where he left the decapitated and decomposing body of the devout Christian Ms Chong in the woods.
She proposed the scheme after Mrs Chong, known as Deborah, gave up giving her £200,000 to pay for upkeep on Mitchell’s dilapidated family home for £4 million, the jury said.
The trained osteopath, who boasted online of his award-winning human dissection skills, denied having anything to do with Ms. Chong’s death but refused to testify at her trial.
She claimed on her behalf that the prosecution had failed to prove that she was concerned or that Ms. Chong had even been killed because the cause of death was “uncertain”.
And several rib fractures may have been caused because Ms. Chong was stuffed into a suitcase. Mitchell noticed rolling, the jury was told.
On Thursday, Mitchell ran out of emotions in the dock and turned a blind eye when an Old Bailey jury found her guilty of manslaughter after deliberating for seven hours.
Speaking in court, he said: “Mitchell never accepted duty for Deborah’s murder, so there are unanswered questions.
“Why did he keep his body for fifteen days, why did he decapitate it, why did he deposit his remains in Salcombe?
“What we do know is that those were evil acts perpetrated through a perverted woman and that the only reason, obviously, was monetary gain. “
More than four hours later, he walked out of Wembley Mansion in northwest London with the bulkiest and heaviest suitcase.
He also had with him a small bag full of Ms. Chong’s monetary documents, which were later recovered from Mitchell’s home.
Mitchell actually beheaded Chong and kept his remains in the garden of the space he shared with his retired mother in Willesden, northwest London, prosecutors suggested.
On June 26 last year, he kept the painting in the suitcase of the trunk of a rental car and traveled to Devon.
In the direction of Salcombe, the Volvo punctured a tire and Mitchell forced him to go to a gas station and call for help.
The repairman called to replace the wheel described Mitchell’s “confused” habit and a “strange musty smell” in the vehicle.
Jurors heard that none of the other people who came to rescue her saw the giant blue suitcase in the trunk, suggesting she had hidden it somewhere nearby, according to prosecutors.
The victim, five feet two inches tall and thin, gave the impression of having been dressed in clothing intended for a taller woman, jurors heard.
Following a police search of the area, Ms. Chong’s skull was discovered a few meters from the body.
The blue suitcase had been on the roof of a neighbor’s shed.
Although no forensic evidence was found in the suitcase, Ms. Chong’s DNA was found on a blood-stained cloth in a bag.
He met Mitchell through a devoted organization and agreed to help him in the first place, but a few days before the assassination, he abandoned Mitchell’s investment structure job, urging him to sell instead.
Mitchell grew up in Australia, where his mother worked for the British Foreign Office and in an osteopathic business before returning to the UK in 2015.
On its website, it said it “listens to neuroanatomy, genetics and dissection of human cadavers. “
In 2016, Mitchell granted parole in North West London Magistrates’ Court for violating a non-abuse order against his sister and brother-in-law.
Mitchell was arrested for sentencing Friday.