'Healer' who decapitated a pensioner and stuffed her body in a suitcase in £700,000 inheritance scam will become first UK woman to be sentenced live on TV TODAY

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'Healer' who decapitated a pensioner and stuffed her body in a suitcase in £700,000 inheritance scam will become first UK woman to be sentenced live on TV TODAY

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Self-styled healer Jemma Mitchell (top inset), 38, will this morning become the first woman to be sentenced for murder live on television after killing and beheading her friend. Mitchell hit 67-year-old Mee Kuen Chong (middle inset) over the head with a weapon at her London home in June last year. 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 after transporting it by suitcase (right). The prosecution claimed 38-year-old Mitchell (left) had planned to murder the vulnerable divorcee and fake her will to inherit the bulk of her estate - worth more than £700,000. She came up with the plan after Ms Chong, who was known as Deborah, backed out of giving her £200,000 to pay for repairs to Mitchell's £4 million dilapidated family home, jurors were told. Grandfather killer Ben Oliver became the first murderer to be sentenced on live television back in June. As Mitchell arrived in the courtroom she mouthed to her watching mother 'Hi mummy'.