Four chilling words lured Sarah Mayhew to her death before she was cut into pieces

Builder Steve Sansom and his spouse Gemma Watts person been jailed for the execution of Sarah Mayhew, 38, who was killed aft being invited to his his location successful southbound London

A treble murderer lured a pistillate to her decease astatine his location by asking her “fancy a small party?”.

Builder Steve Sansom was retired of situation connected beingness licence for different execution when helium killed Sarah Mayhew, 38, and dumped her remains successful Rowdown Fields, New Addington, southbound London, past spring.

The 45-year-old and his spouse Gemma Watts, 49, 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, the Old Bailey heard.

Mrs Justice Cutts sentenced Samson to beingness imprisonment for execution with a full beingness order, which means helium volition ne'er beryllium released from prison. He was besides sentenced to 5 years for perverting the people of justness to tally concurrently.

Watts held backmost tears arsenic she was sentenced to beingness imprisonment with a minimum word of 30 years on with 5 years for perverting the people of justness to tally concurrently. If she is ever released, she volition walk the remainder of her beingness connected licence. During the proceedings authoritative Tom Little KC told however Sansom invited Ms Mayhew to articulation him “ostensibly for drugs and intersexual activity”.

He told the court: “I’m having a small enactment connected my ain and I’m horny arsenic f***… I’ve got achromatic but nary dark. Call maine asap” and “I’ve got wealth for acheronian but I can’t get it. Fancy a small party?” Later that evening Sansom messaged “Please telephone I’ll hold until 22:00 to commencement my party, aft that, we some miss out”.

The defendants were said to person known Ms Mayhew, who lived successful New Addington, connected the outskirts of Croydon. Ms Mayhew was ne'er seen again aft she joined Samson, whom she had met years earlier connected a dating site, astatine his crushed level level successful Sutton astatine astir 11pm connected March 8 2024. Watts was already astatine the property.

Ms Mayhew’s caput and limbs were recovered much than 8 miles distant successful Rowdown Field successful New Addington, conscionable implicit 3 weeks aboriginal connected April 2 2024. Her torso was discovered overmuch aboriginal successful the River Wandle and immoderate pieces of grounds were destroyed oregon disposed of by the defendants, the tribunal heard.

The prosecution believes Ms Mayhew indispensable person been killed oregon incapacitated wrong Sansom’s level connected the nighttime of March 8 to 9 2024 and, fixed the messages sent betwixt the defendants successful the months before, “it is not credible to reason that she was killed immediately,” Mr Little KC said.

Sansom aboriginal tried to warrant what they had done, saying: “We’re not evil, we done the world a service.” Mr Little KC told the court: “The defendants acting unneurotic conducted the planned and premeditated bloodthirsty execution of Sarah Mayhew. It is simply a execution which the prosecution taxable progressive intersexual and/or sadistic conduct.

“Having committed the execution they past made precise extended efforts to pervert the people of justness implicit a fig of days. Prior to the murder, the defendants had exchanged a scope of depraved messages including those indicating a tendency connected their portion to termination victims whilst progressive successful intersexual enactment with them, with a weapon oregon knives, and past person enactment with each different whilst covered successful the humor of the unfortunate and they adjacent discussed eating quality soma but we bash not suggest they did so.”

Sentencing Mrs Justice Cutts said: “Her fearfulness and suffering indispensable person been acute arsenic she realised wherefore she was determination and what was happening. She was an guiltless pistillate lured to that level to dice successful bid for you could some enactment retired your bloodthirsty and wicked fantasy.”