GUILTY UK - Mee Kuen "Deborah" Chong, 67, Wembley, London, decapitated in woods, Salcombe, Jun 2021 *arrest

[Honeybirdette]

‘Evil’ headless body killer to be sentenced on TV

Jemma Mitchell hit 67-year-old Mee Kuen Chong over the head with a weapon at her London home in June last year.

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A self-styled healer will become the first woman to be sentenced on television after being found guilty of murdering her friend, whose headless body was dumped in Devon.

On Friday, Judge Richard Marks KC will be broadcast handing down his sentence at the Old Bailey.

It is only the second time cameras have been allowed into an English criminal crown court to record a sentencing, and the first in which the defendant is a woman.

 

[Tortoise]

Court 6 at 10am Sentence is expected to be broadcast live. Jemma Mitchell is accused of murder. Mee Kuen Chong, 67, known to friends as Deborah, was reported missing from her home in Wembley, north London, on June 11. Her headless body was found in woodland near the Devon town of Salcombe on June 27.

What’s on at the Old Bailey on October 28

 

[StillDiggin]

i think sky news might be going live at 10am

Jemma Mitchell sentencing - as it happened: Woman who murdered and decapitated friend Mee Kuen Chong sentenced

Jemma Mitchell is sentenced at the Old Bailey for murdering and decapitating Mee Kuen Chong, whose headless body was found by holidaymakers beside a woodland footpath near Salcombe in Devon, last June.

news.sky.com

 

[Alyce]

i think sky news might be going live at 10am

Jemma Mitchell sentencing - as it happened: Woman who murdered and decapitated friend Mee Kuen Chong sentenced

Jemma Mitchell is sentenced at the Old Bailey for murdering and decapitating Mee Kuen Chong, whose headless body was found by holidaymakers beside a woodland footpath near Salcombe in Devon, last June.

news.sky.com

Thanks for that SD


it is listed for 10am

Court 6 - sitting at 10:00 am

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DTA - THIS SENTENCING HEARING MIGHT BE RECORDED AND BROADCAST

www.courtserve.net

 

[Tortoise]

It's now showing as 10.15 on Sky's live youtube channel

 

[Alyce]

BBC are showing it live


and Sky - starts about 10.15 hrs

 

[Tortoise]

Now saying 10.30am on Sky's youtube channel.

 

[JuicyLucy]

I'm watching Sky News on TV. It's delayed atm though.

I'm so fascinated to see her in the flesh after everything that's been said about her odd behaviour and that unnerving smile.

 

[Tortoise]

I'm watching Sky News on TV. It's delayed atm though.

I'm so fascinated to see her in the flesh after everything that's been said about her odd behaviour and that unnerving smile.

It's going to be a camera on the judge only, sadly.

This was an explanation for the first broadcast, earlier this year First televised sentencing to make legal history at Old Bailey | ITV News

 

[Honeybirdette]

I'm watching Sky News on TV. It's delayed atm though.

I'm so fascinated to see her in the flesh after everything that's been said about her odd behaviour and that unnerving smile.

Sky have just said the camera will be fixed on the judge gutted

 

[JuicyLucy]

Oh, that's a shame. Still, a historic shift. I wonder how long it will be before proceedings themselves are televised or shown online, as in the US. Surely only a matter of time.

It's utterly tedious watching the business news while we wait.

 

[Alyce]

Hearing delayed slightly after request from defence team​

We understand the hearing has been delayed slightly, apparently due to a request for more time from Mitchell's defence team.
It is hoped proceedings will get under way at around 10.30.


www.sky.com

 

[Alyce]

Jemma Mitchell arrives in court​

Jemma Mitchell is now in court ahead of her sentencing.
She is seen mouthing "hello mummy" to her mother, who is sitting in the public gallery and blows kisses in response.
We're just waiting for the live stream to begin, which is due to happen as soon as the judge enters the courtroom at the Old Bailey.



www.sky.com

 

[Alyce]

34 years, a decent sentence

 

[JuicyLucy]

34 years less time served (she's been on remand over a year).

Jemma Mitchell sentencing - live updates: Woman who murdered and decapitated friend Mee Kuen Chong being sentenced

Listening to the sentencing remarks makes it clear she must have thought she'd come up with the perfect crime. So many devious ideas, yet somehow she didn't think about the existence of cctv or witnesses.

 

[Tortoise]

Brilliant sentence!

 

[michelle230]

Wow was not expecting 24 years!!

 

[michelle230]

Did you see the state of the house when the police came to arrest her. What a nightmare! If that's not a warning to think twice before embarking on large home project, I don't know what is..

 

[Alyce]

34 years less time served (she's been on remand over a year).

Jemma Mitchell sentencing - live updates: Woman who murdered and decapitated friend Mee Kuen Chong being sentenced

Listening to the sentencing remarks makes it clear she must have thought she'd come up with the perfect crime. So many devious ideas, yet somehow she didn't think about the existence of cctv or witnesses.

Taking the phone of the dead neighbour - several months earlier - heavy pre planning

Am surprised the Judge decided to ignore the earlier offence against her sister

 

[infinit]

I really wish whole life order/life without the possibility of parole was the default sentence for pre-meditated murder here in the UK. But 34 years will have to do.