including the blue suitcase, back into her house. on the afternoon of 27 june, less than 2a hours after deborah chong s body was dumped in woodland, it was discovered by charlotte rollings and her family. deborah s handbag was found too. inside, a length of rope, which the jury would later hear matched rope found at jemma mitchell s home. the business card of
later that evening, jemma mitchell was seen entering st thomas s hospital in london. she had a fractured finger she told doctors that she had trapped it in a car door. that was a lie. it would be that same evening on ”june when police were called about deborah. her lodger, seen for the final time alongside her here, called to report her missing on the day she died. by 26 june the search for deborah was well under way. nobody excethemma mitchell had any idea what had truly happened to the 67 year old. that morning, mitchell is seen on cctv
but what we we do know is it that it was an evil act carried out by an evil woman, and the only motive, clearly, was one of financial gain. on friday 28 october, mitchell was back in court. this time, she was to be sentenced for murder. it was a historic moment at the old bailey. she became the first murderer and first woman in england and wales to have her sentence televised. jemma mitchell, i have to sentence you for the murder on 11 june of last year, of mee kuen, otherwise known as deborah chong, which you were convicted by the jury yesterday. i have had regard to the victim impact statement read to the court from members of herfamily, who are not, unnaturally, in a state of shock and devastation as to the circumstances
an evangelical church and scraps of paper bearing passages from the bible were also found. but it wouldn t be until several days later during searches of the woodland that the head was found, ten metres away. what followed was a huge murder investigation. meanwhile, jemma mitchell was trying to put police off the scent. three days after the murder, she sent an email to the missing persons unit. she wrote: . the email was to become just one piece of a significant amount of evidence. police had concluded jemma mitchell was their prime suspect.
despite reluctance from the taxi operator, she agrees to wait. just after four in the afternoon, jemma mitchell arrives home. mitchell has been dropped off by the cab, not to her home address but next door, 11 brondesbury park, and we can see her now taking that blue suitcase which contains deborah chong s body into the hoarding, the front hoarding of 9 brondesbury park.