Woman who beheaded friend sentenced to life in England's 1st televised murder sentencing

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A woman who killed and decapitated a friend was sentenced to life in prison at London's Old Bailey Crown Court on Friday, in England's first sentencing for murder ever seen on camera.

Jemma Mitchell was convicted of murdering her 67-year-old friend Mee Kuen Chong at her home in London in June 2021, Judge Richard Marks said.

The prosecution had told the court that Mitchell then stuffed Chong's body in a suitcase.

Using a rental car, she took the body some 320 kilometres to Devon, England, where it was found the next day by a woman out walking. Chong's head had been cut off. It was not found until days later, the judge said, by which time it had decomposed enough to prevent a pathologist from determining a cause of death. It was, however, clear the head had been struck.

The judge said Mitchell had used her knowledge of anatomy, which she learned while at university, to decapitate the victim, though he added that her reason for doing so remained "a mystery."

It is the first time a person convicted of murder has been sentenced on camera in an English or Welsh court. Rules were changed earlier this year to allow sentences in Crown Courts to be broadcast, though the rest of the trial process remains off-limits to cameras.

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