Steven Sansom and Gemma Watts were convicted of murdering Sarah Mayhew and disposing of her body in a park. They received life sentences, with Sansom facing a whole-life order due to his previous convictions.
A couple who brutally killed a woman and disposed of her dismembered body in a park have been sentenced to life in prison. Steven Sansom, 45, and his partner Gemma Watts, 49, previously admitted to the murder of Sarah Mayhew, 38, and obstructing justice. Mrs. Justice Cutts sentenced Sansom to life imprisonment for murder, with a whole-life order, meaning he will never be released from prison. He also received a five-year sentence for perverting the course of justice, to run concurrently.
This is Sansom's second life sentence; he was previously jailed for robbing and murdering a taxi driver in 1999 and released on parole in 2019. Watts was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 30 years, along with five years for perverting the course of justice. If she is ever released, she will remain on parole for the rest of her life. The couple is believed to have known Ms. Mayhew, whose body was discovered in Rowdown Fields, New Addington in south London, after police were alerted to human remains on April 2nd last year. The judge stated that Sansom 'had murder in mind' and that Watts, obsessed with him, participated in the killing. Ms. Mayhew was last seen alive when she joined Sansom, whom she had met years earlier on a dating site, at his ground-floor flat in Sutton around 11 pm on March 8th, 2024. The judge remarked: 'Her fear and suffering must have been acute as she realized why she was there and what was happening. She was an innocent woman lured to that flat to die so that you could both act out your bloodthirsty and wicked fantasy.' Sansom is believed to have used the name 'Red Rum,' which is 'murder' spelled backward, on his Facebook profile. On March 10th, a post appeared on the account stating: 'Best friends are those who don't say anything when you show up at their door with a dead body. They just grab a shovel and follow you.' During their sentencing hearing, the pair sat quietly in the dock as details of their 'kinky' sexual relationship, including a stream of messages between them about bestiality, humiliation, and causing harm, were revealed. They engaged in 'depraved conversations about sexual activity,' and the graphic messages between them soon escalated from fantasy to reality. The judge stated that there was 'a clear and proper inference in my view that this murder involved sexual and sadistic conduct.' Sansom, from Sutton, southwest London, robbed and slashed the neck of 59-year-old married father-of-two Terence Boyle on Christmas Eve 1998. He ordered a cab to take him home from East Croydon before attacking driver Mr. Boyle, who was described as 'a quiet, gentle, unassuming family man.' He crawled dying from his cab after Sansom attacked him and stole £25 to buy Christmas presents. Sansom, then 20, laughed afterward and told a friend: 'His kids are going to have to see him in hospital over Christmas,' the court heard at the time
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