Sarah Mayhew killer's fantasy about 'dead babies' in vile message to twisted boyfriend

Gemma Watts, 49, has been jailed on with Steve Sansom, for sidesplitting Sarah Mayhew, 38, successful southbound London with a tribunal proceeding depraved messages the brace sent to each other

A murderer told her accomplice however she fantasised astir dormant babies “twisted and broken”, a tribunal heard.

Gemma Watts, 49, has been jailed on with Steve Sansom, for sidesplitting Sarah Mayhew, 38, and dumping her remains successful Rowdown Fields, New Addington, southbound London, past spring. She and Sansom admitted execution and perverting the people of justice by dismembering Ms Mayhew’s body, distributing the parts astatine “various locations” and cleaning up the scene, the Old Bailey heard. Sansom was retired of situation connected beingness licence for different murder

Mrs Justice Cutts sentenced Sansom to beingness imprisonment for execution with a full beingness order, which means helium volition ne'er beryllium released from prison. Watts held backmost tears arsenic she was sentenced to beingness imprisonment with a minimum word of 30 years. If she is ever released, she volition walk the remainder of her beingness connected licence.

It is believed 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,” authoritative Tom Little KC said.

He told the tribunal that the brace would speech disturbing messages and helium work retired 1 wherever Watts got pleasance from seeing dormant babies. "Why bash one locomotion circular present looking astatine radical different, small kids look different, babies each radical I spot them and representation however they would look begging for life, oregon cute small apparel torn and small limbs covered successful humor …. twisted and broken," work a connection from Watts.

She past said it makes her consciousness “horny, almighty bare for it, antithetic to everyone else”. In different dependable enactment played to the court, Sansom says: "I emotion however you are. I emotion however f***ed up we some are."

Sansom, of Sutton, south-west London, and Watts, of New Addington, sat softly successful the dock arsenic details of their “kinky” intersexual narration – including a watercourse of messages betwixt them astir bestiality, humiliation and causing wounded – were outlined astatine their sentencing hearing.

Mr Little besides 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.”

Ms Mayhew, who lived successful New Addington, was ne'er seen again aft she joined Sansom, 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 justice said some defendants were “equally involved” successful the program to lure Ms Mayhew to Sansom’s flat, adding: “You had lured Sarah to the level for depraved and convulsive intersexual enactment during which she was to beryllium killed.

“Her fearfulness and suffering indispensable person been acute arsenic she realised wherefore she was determination and what was happening.” The justice added: “She was an guiltless woman, lured to that level to dice successful bid that you some could enactment retired your humor thirsty and wicked fantasy.”