A 'murdered' mum left behind a trail of handwritten clues in her home before she vanished last year, Hove crown court has heard. The letters were discovered by police in Alexandra Morgan's home in Cranbook, Kent, which were written by the missing woman before she disappeared in November last year.
The 34-year-old, known as Alex, specifically left details of a meeting she had with accused murderer, Mark Brown, in Sussex on November 15, the Mirror reports. It's been confirmed these notes included a location, a reminder to check pictures and the password required to get into her smart phone.
Mark Brown has been accused of killing the 34 year old and another woman, Leah Ware who he both connected with through an adult sexual services site. Alex was last seen on November 14, 2021 and Leah was last seen in May 2021 - only Alex's remains have been found after being discovered on a building site in Kent where Brown worked, the court heard.
The second day of the trial heard that Brown had offered Alex Morgan a highly-paid job at a hotel in Brighton at which he worked as security. She met with Brown on the morning of November 14, being seen on CCTV following him onto land that Brown used at Little Bridge Farm, off Rock Lane in Hastings.
Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson KC claimed that Alex "realised that it [the job] may not be above board" because she left a "trail of clues for her sons, and the police, to find". Alex had left a note on a desk in her living room for her son, which read "let's go rollerblading" - in her son's bedroom was a box containing those rollerblades.
Mr Atkinson KC told the jury: "However, it now also contained items placed there by his mother. These included a large sum of cash, a mobile telephone and a handwritten note.
"The note included the PIN for the phone, and said 'photos evidence Brighton Premier Inn or Travel Lodge, security company on site', and then 'check postcode TN34 5NY Rock Lane, opposite Bartletts'. It referred to where the defendant worked and to the location where Morgan was to to meet him, and as "she feared, to meet her death."
Mr Atkinson added: "There was a further note, which again included the PIN for the phone and a reference to Brighton next to the TV screen." Jurors also heard how Brown allegedly tried to cover his tracks after November 14 and made a "systematic attempt" to dispose of evidence.
Alex's white Mini Cooper was picked up on ANPR cameras heading to her home and back again in the early hours of November 15 - prosecutors say it was Brown driving it. Mr Atkinson told the court: "What had caused the defendant to travel to Morgan’s home in the middle of the night?
''There are a number of possibilities. One is that he was seeking to create an impression of her still being alive when he knew that she was not.
"Another is that he was concerned that she had left something at her house that would implicate him in her disappearance. The latter is a strong possibility supported by the fact that as it turned out, Alex Morgan had left something behind."
Brown also allegedly enlisted the help of an associate to move Alex's car from his Little Bridge Farm site to Hastings. After police searches, Alex's remains were found at a building site in Sevenoaks where Brown worked - burnt bones were found in a skip, including teeth that were confirmed to be Alex's.
The court also heard of "strong factual and contextual similarities" between the disappearances of both Alex Morgan and Leah Ware. Mr Atkinson said: "Both women can be traced to the defendant’s property at Little Bridge Farm and in each case the defendant took steps after their disappearance to distance himself from those events or to create a false impression that they were still alive.
"Each of them did not just disappear from Little Bridge Farm, but died there. And that each of them did not just happen to die at a time when they were with the defendant, but had been murdered by him."
Mark Brown, of Squirrel Close in St Leonards, denies both counts of murder. The trial continues.
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