this suitcase is now decidedly bulkier. we say that the body of deborah chong is within it. jemma also has a separate suitcase which has all of deborah s personal belongings within that. to get back home, jemma mitchell calls for a cab. she gives them a false name and a different destination address not hers, but her neighbour s. as she tries to leave, she is left waiting.
who s inside at the moment? my mother. your mother? if you wanna. can someone lift that up? let s step back inside. is anyone else inside? just your mum? yeah. there is someone else inside? 0rjust your mum? just my mum. shall i bring her out? bring her in for a minute. intense searches ofjemma mitchell s brondesbury park home followed in the days after her arrest. on top of a neighbour s shed, they found the blue suitcase which was used to put deborah s body in. they also found a fake will made byjemma mitchell, which left most of ms chong s assets to her. the person driving the volvo waited in the car all that time. when questioned in police custody, jemma mitchell repeatedly refused to engage with officers. literally chucking it down with rain, and it was windy. why is that, jemma?
more than 200 miles away in devon. afterjust eight hours of deliberations, the jury found jemma mitchell guilty of murder. a woman has been found guilty of the murder and decapitation of a friend she met in church. jemma mitchell killed mee kuen chong at her home in wembley last year before taking her headless body 200 miles away, in a suitcase. deborah was 67 years old when she was murdered in june of last year. today at the old bailey, 38 year old womanjemma mitchell has been found guilty of that murder. deborah was born in malaysia. through her own hard work and initiative, she made a good life for herself, finally settling in london, where she was a much valued and loved member of her community. mitchell has never accepted responsibility for deborah s murder so there are questions which may remain unanswered. why she kept the body
amount of evidence. police had concluded jemma mitchell was their prime suspect. banging. police! excuse me? hello, there. hello, how are you? yes, good. sorry, what s your name? i m trying to sleep. are you jemma? speaking indistinctly. hang on, one second. jemma, do you want to come out? yeah, sure, sure. hand to the side of your hand. all right, jemma, at this moment, i m arresting l you on suspicion of murder, 0k? you don t have to say anything. speaking indistinctly. anything you do say may be given as evidence, 0k? - once you are in the cuffs. am i allowed to. i m going to explain. everything to you, 0k? should i get some shoes on? speaking indistinctly.
which the jury would later hear matched rope found at jemma mitchell s home. the business card of 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