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A WOMAN trained in human dissection who killed and beheaded a pensioner before dumping her body has been found guilty of murder.
Jemma Mitchell, 38, bludgeoned 67-year-old Mee Kuen Chong, who was known as Deborah, in a row over £200,000.
Chilling footage then showed her wheeling the churchgoer's body in a suitcase to her dilapidated home in Brent, North London.
Mitchell has now been convicted of murder following a trial at the Old Bailey.
Detective Chief Inspector Jim Eastwood, who led the investigation, described it as a "truly despicable crime".
He said: "The motivation for Jemma Mitchell's actions was money and she showed a significant degree of planning and calculation as she attempted to cover up her horrific actions. The cold facts of this case are shocking."
“Deborah Chong was a vulnerable lady – in the weeks before her murder, she was seeking help for her declining mental health.
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Jurors heard how cold-hearted Mitchell kept Mee at her house for two weeks after the killing – in which time she made herself beneficiary of her friend's will.
She then moved her body 250 miles away to Salcombe, Devon, in a rented Volvo.
Once there, she dumped Mee's headless corpse in woodland before making the long journey home.
Mee was reported missing from her home in Wembley, North London, on June 11 with her body discovered by holidaymakers in Devon 17 days later.
Her head was found ten metres away in undergrowth and had been "cleanly cut" from the rest of the body.
A post mortem was carried out but a cause of death could not be determined due to decomposition.
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But the torso appeared to have been cut and there were signs of assault – including a skull fracture that suggested "significant impact by a blunt object very shortly before death".
Mee was found with pieces of paper inside her black quilted M&S zip-up jacket that had bible quotes on them.
Inside her handbag was a tote bag, camera and a "length of orange nylon rope".
She was missing three bones from her spine and "laryngeal structures", which form the Adam's Apple, were also missing.
A pathologist said there was no evidence of an attempted hanging and she did not see blood at the scene.
Mitchell had studied Human Sciences at Kings College London where she gained a first class degree and a special prize for anatomical excellence.
She went on to study osteopathy in Australia and her professional website stated that as a result of her training she was "attuned to subjects in neuroanatomy, genetics and dissection of human cadavers".
Mitchell befriended Mee through church but they had recently "fallen out" over money.
She wanted £200,000 from her pal to help pay for repairs to her home, which was missing a home and piled high with rubbish, but Mee refused.
Mee had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and struggled with her mental health, the trial at the Old Bailey heard.
On the day Mee vanished, Mitchell had messaged her suggesting a visit.
But the victim was so fed up of her friend badgering her for money that she texted: "Not talk about house or money, stresses them both out".
After killing Mee, Mitchell forged a will on her computer giving herself the chunk of her friend's estate, valued at about £700,000.
"A large sum was needed to complete the repairs on the defendant's house," prosecutor Deanna Heer earlier told the jury.
"In Mee Kuen Chong, the prosecution say the defendant found someone from whom she thought she could get that money – by persuading Me Kuen Chong to give it to her, or if not when she was alive, then by forging her will after she had killed her."
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Mitchell denied murder and manslaughter but was convicted by the jury after eight hours of deliberation. She will be sentenced on Friday.
After the verdict, Judge Richard Marks praised the police team for their "excellent and extremely thorough investigative work".
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