LONDON—A “devout Christian” murdered her friend, decapitated her, and dumped her headless body on a public footpath 200 miles away, where a family stumbled across it while on a holiday stroll, a jury in London has heard.
Jemma Mitchell, 38, denies murdering Mee Kuen Chong, 67, and depositing her body and head near Salcombe in south Devon in June 2021.
A jury at the Old Bailey in London heard on Tuesday how Charlotte Rollings and her family made the “gruesome discovery” as they took a walk near their holiday cottage on June 27, 2021.
Prosecutor Deanna Heer, KC, said the head was found three days later and she said: “There were signs of an assault. The skull was fractured above the right eye socket. The pattern of the fracture suggests that it was the result of a significant impact by a blunt object very shortly before death.”…