Couple face life in jail for dismembering woman’s body and dumping it in park

A mates person admitted to murdering a London pistillate and disposing of her assemblage successful a engaged park.

The remains of Sarah Mayhew, 38, was recovered successful Rowdown Fields, southbound London, successful April of this year.

Now, Gemma Watts, 49, and Steve Sansom, 45 – some of whom are said to person known Ms Mayhew – were arrested and charged with her execution and are facing beingness sentences.

Sansom is believed to usage a illustration sanction of Red Rum connected Facebook, which is execution spelt backwards.

On March 10, a station appeared connected the Red Rum relationship reading: ‘Best friends are those who don’t accidental thing erstwhile you amusement up astatine their doorway with a dormant body. They conscionable drawback a shovel and travel you.’

Sansom, of Burnell Road, Sutton, south-west London, had antecedently admitted execution and perverting the people of justness by dismembering Ms Mayhew’s body, distributing the parts astatine ‘various locations’ and cleaning up the scene.

Watts pleaded blameworthy to execution and perverting the people of justice, but denied 3 charges of making indecent images of a child, which volition prevarication connected the tribunal file.

After Watts’ plea astatine the Old Bailey, Judge Mark Lucraft KC adjourned sentencing to a day to beryllium fixed successful January.

Watts, who was linked to the transgression country by telephone evidence, was remanded into custody.

Both defendants are facing beingness sentences.

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