Churchgoing osteopath Jemma Mitchell jailed for cutting off Malaysian pensioner Mee Kuen Chong’s head
Churchgoing osteopath Jemma Mitchell told a friend that she’d ‘had a good day’ hours after killing and decapitating her ‘vulnerable’ friend Mee Kuen Chong.
Mitchell, 38, replied to a friend on Whatsapp about her day on the night that Ms Chong, known as Deborah, was murdered.
She bludgeoned Malaysian Ms Chong over the head with a weapon at her London home in June last year in a plan to get hold of her money.
Using skills she had learned during medical studies, she then decapitated her 5ft 2in tall friend before putting her remains in a suitcase she hid on the top of a neighbour’s shed.
Two weeks later, she drove more than 200 miles to the seaside town of Salcombe in Devon where she left devout Christian Ms Chong’s decapitated and badly decomposed body in woods.
On Friday she was jailed for life to serve a minimum of 34 years after killing and decapitating the ‘vulnerable’ 67-year-old, before forging her friend’s will.
In the message, seen by The Sun, Mitchell said: ‘I had a good day thank you, it is nice hearing from you’, the day she killed Ms Chong.
‘What terrifies me is how calm she appeared for those weeks after she had killed her friend,’ the friend told the news site.
‘Looking back at those messages it’s horrible to think poor Deborah’s body was in her house.’
In pictures from Mitchell’s now deleted dating profile, she can be seen in holiday photos and posing on a motorbike. Another picture showed her playing drums at church.
She is understood to have continued attending Emmanuel Evangelical Church in Edgware during the weeks between murdering Ms Chong and being arrested.
The Whatsapp messages come as a former ‘best pal’ of Mitchell revealed she is haunted by memories of sleeping inside the killer’s flat.
Keren Gjuretek, 20, was just 16 when she struck up a friendship with Australian-born Mitchell, 38, at a Christian conference in London in 2018.
The pair enjoyed a blossoming friendship in which Mitchell appeared to take Miss Gjurutek under her wing – only to then send secret messages to the younger woman’s boyfriend, The Sunday Mirror reports.
Miss Gjurutek said: ‘We were quite close friends, I would say best friends. We would call and talk every day.
‘We ended our friendship because she tried to steal my boyfriend… There’s something extremely weird about her.
‘I’m just thinking about the times I was alone with her… I slept at her apartment. It’s absolutely awful to think that could have been me.’
Miss Gjurutek, now a full-time mother living in Dublin, said she was not surprised to learn about Mitchell’s crimes, adding she ‘creeped her out’ with questioning and was ‘like a snake’.