Couple facing life in jail for murder of dismembered woman

A mates are facing beingness successful jailhouse aft admitted murdering a pistillate and dumping her dismembered assemblage successful a park.

Sarah Mayhew, 38, was recovered dormant successful Rowdown Fields, New Addington, southbound London, aft constabulary were alerted to quality remains connected April 2.

Gemma Watts, 49, and Steve Sansom, 45, were arrested and charged with murdering Ms Mayhew betwixt March 7 and April 3.

The defendants were said to person known the victim, who lived successful New Addington, connected the outskirts of Croydon.

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 saying: “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.

On Thursday, Watts, of Featherbed Lane, New Addington, 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.

The justice said that the lone condemnation that could beryllium passed for some defendants was a beingness sentence.

Members of Ms Mayhew’s household attended the abbreviated tribunal hearing.

At a erstwhile proceeding for Watts, authoritative Tom Little KC said: “The prosecution lawsuit present is that connected the nighttime of March 8 the unfortunate was murdered successful the co-defendant’s (Sansom’s) property, with some the defendants being present, and thereafter determination was some a important clear-up cognition and the disposal of the assemblage of the deceased.”

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