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Savage mates killed 38-year-old past utilized powerfulness tools to fell grisly crime
- Holly Christodoulou, Digital Court Editor
- Published: 12:06, 21 Nov 2024
- Updated: 12:07, 21 Nov 2024
A MONSTER had admitted helping her convicted slayer person dismember a pistillate and scatter her remains successful a parkland and by a river.
Severed assemblage parts belonging to Mayhew, 38, were archetypal discovered successful Rowdown Fields, Croydon, connected April 2 this year.
Her "limbless torso" was then pulled from the River Wandle by contractors carrying retired cleaning enactment the pursuing month.
Steven Sansom, 45, antecedently admitted murdering Sarah and perverting the people of justice.
His woman Gemma Watts, 49, contiguous pleaded blameworthy to the aforesaid charges.
Sarah was past seen live successful Sutton, South West London, connected the evening of March 8.
The Old Bailey heard she was killed astatine Sansom's location that nighttime earlier the slayer mates utilized power tools to dismember her body.
After cleaning up grounds of their gruesome crime, Sansom near a chilling dependable enactment claiming the brace had "done the satellite a service".
Sarah's head, arms and legs were recovered successful the parkland erstwhile a canine walking successful the fields returned to its proprietor carrying a quality bone.
Then, connected May 21, further assemblage parts were discovered successful Mitcham.
The court heard Sarah's caput had been shaved and she had bruising connected her skull.
Sansom was antecedently convicted of execution and was jailed for beingness with a minimum word of 20 years successful 1999.
He stabbed fashionable cab operator Terrence Boyle, 59, successful the pharynx and backmost earlier escaping with conscionable £25 on Christmas Eve 1998.
Sansom was released from jailhouse successful December 2019.
The mates person been remanded into custody up of sentencing connected a day to beryllium set.
Detective Inspector Martin Thorpe earlier said: "My thoughts are with Sarah's household arsenic they woody with this heartbreaking news.
"No household should person to suffer a loved 1 successful specified tragic circumstances, and we volition proceed to supply our enactment arsenic our investigation progresses."