Television cameras will capture the moment a self-styled healer found guilty of murdering her friend is sentenced in court. It was alleged Jemma Mitchell hit 67-year-old Mee Kuen Chong over the head with a weapon at her London home, before driving more than 200 miles to dump her headless body in Devon.
Now, 38-year-old Mitchell will make history by becoming the first woman to be sentenced on television in England. Jurors heard that Mitchell took Ms Chong’s decapitated and badly decomposed body to woods in the seaside town of Salcombe two weeks after the attack.
Prosecutors said Mitchell intended to kill devout Christian and vulnerable divorcee Ms Chong before faking her will to inherit the bulk of her estate - worth more than £700,000. The court heard Mitchell came up with the plan after Ms Chong, who was known as Deborah, backed out of giving her £200,000 to pay for repairs to Mitchell’s £4 million dilapidated family home.
