Jemma Mitchell has a degree in osteopathy and has boasted online about her award-winning skills in social dissonance.
A woman has been found guilty of murdering and beheading her husband to claim his inheritance.
Jemma Mitchell, 38, killed Mee Kuen Chong at the 67-year-old’s home in north-west London in June 2021, before packing her body in a suitcase and driving to Devon to dispose of it.
Grandma Chong’s headless remains were found by holidaymakers in Salcombe, 200 miles from her home in Wembley.
Mitchell created a will in an attempt to get money to renovate his home.
Mrs Chong, who was also known as Deborah, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was mentally disturbed, the trial at the Old Bailey heard.
Magistrates were told that the pair, both devout Christians, had met with a church group and had become close, with Mitchell also acting as Ms Chong’s “spiritual healer”.
The decapitated body of Londoner Mee Kuen Chong was found more than 200 miles from Devon.
Mrs Chong wanted to invest £200,000 to renovate Mitchell’s £4m dilapidated property, also in north-west London, but then changed her mind, telling Mrs Mitchell to sell the house, which has been in her family for generations, and. enjoy money instead.
Shortly after, Ms Chong went missing before her body was found in the bush 16 days later.
At the time, Mitchell had made a false statement via email to missing persons and sent a WhatsApp message to Ms Chong’s resident saying the 67-year-old man had gone to spend time with his family for a year to clear his head.
He also wrote Ms Chong had planned to live “somewhere near the sea”.
Police bodycam footage was taken when Jemma Mitchell was arrested
A radiologist who examined Ms Chong’s injuries told the court that she may have been hit on the head with a weapon.
Detectives searched Mitchell’s home and found Ms Chong’s personal and financial documents, and a will that had been created on Mitchell’s computer after Ms Chong’s death.
Mitchell named himself and his mother as beneficiaries of Ms Chong’s estate, which was worth 700,000.
The defendant, who had a degree in osteopathy, boasted online about his award-winning skills in human surgery and denied any involvement in Ms Chong’s death.
Magistrates were shown CCTV footage of the killer dragging a suitcase believed to contain a body
But CCTV footage showed him taking a large blue suitcase to Ms Chong’s home, which the prosecution said contained the murder kit, and walking away with another bag five hours later.
Police investigators found Mitchell’s handling of the blue case, which was caught on CCTV footage and shown to jurors, showed he was carrying a heavy load.
The prosecutor said a small bag was full of Ms Chong’s financial documents.
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Jemma Mitchell on CCTV footage at St Thomas’s Hospital in central London, where she went with a broken finger.
Later that evening, jurors heard, Mitchell had gone to St Thomas’s hospital in central London for treatment for a broken finger, saying he had locked the door.
Fifteen days later, on 26 June 2021, Mitchell put the body in a suitcase in the boot of a hire car and drove to Devon, where he dumped it before returning to London.
Ms Chong’s decapitated body was found in the bush by holidaymakers the next day and her skull was found in nearby grass a few days later.
Mitchell refused to give evidence at his trial but his defense said the prosecution had failed to prove his involvement or that Ms Chong had been murdered.
Standing in the dock, Mitchell closed his eyes briefly as the sentence was handed down.
Mee Kuen Chong was a devout Christian and had met Jemma Mitchell through a church group
Afterwards, Judge Richard Marks praised the police team for their “excellent and investigative work”.
Now it can be said that he is also guilty of violating the non-harassment law, related to family members.
Speaking outside the Old Bailey, Det Ch Insp Jim Eastwood, who led the investigation, said: “Mitchell has never pleaded guilty to Deborah’s murder so there are still unanswered questions.
“Why did he keep his body for two weeks, why did he decapitate him, why did he put his remains in Salcombe.
“What we do know is that these were bad jobs by a bad woman and the only clear motive was to make money.”
Mitchell, who was convicted after eight hours of deliberations, will be sentenced on Friday.
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