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00:00It's the pivotal moment in any investigation.
00:02Stay where you are!
00:04If you get it wrong, then it's game over.
00:07Get on your ground now!
00:12Police officer with a taser!
00:14Taser, taser, taser!
00:20Don't do something!
00:30Everything they're doing is on body-worn video.
00:36Police!
00:37Everything they're doing will be examined by defence lawyers.
00:42Shots you're on!
00:44They can't make any mistakes.
00:46I haven't done anything wrong!
01:00Outside a block of flats on the edge of town,
01:09preparations for an arrest that will rock the world of show business.
01:15The element of surprise is very important to the police
01:18because, essentially, if they knock on the door
01:21and then the person realises who they are,
01:24they might make efforts to conceal things or hide things
01:26they might have been doing at the time.
01:28And that was very much the case here.
01:32The target, a 36-year-old man,
01:35suspected of planning to kidnap one of Britain's most famous celebrities.
01:41They obviously believed that this threat was imminent.
01:43That's probably why they used the knock on the door
01:46with the big red key, rather than a knock on the door with a hand.
01:52Police!
01:53Stay where you are!
01:54Do not touch anything!
01:55Clarence is home!
01:56What's going on?
01:58What the hell is going on?
02:00Listen to what my colleague is going to say.
02:02Right, you're under arrest on suspicion of conspiracy...
02:04Oh, yes.
02:05You do not have...
02:06What is going on?
02:07What are you talking about?
02:09Listen to me, listen to me.
02:09You're interested in something that's left alone
02:11or anything you do so now.
02:13They wanted an element of surprise.
02:15And I think you can see that on him.
02:16When they actually go in and arrest him, he is shocked.
02:20So, at the moment, you're under arrest for conspiracy...
02:23You guys got to step up.
02:24Who?
02:25Holly Willoughby.
02:26I don't think those ones are warm.
02:28I'm not going to lie.
02:29She's a fantasy of mine.
02:30I mean, she's a fantasy of a lot of girls, isn't she?
02:32Holly Willoughby was arguably the queen of daytime television,
02:47so she was very much forefront on This Morning,
02:50which is a huge daytime TV show.
02:53She'd been doing it for 14 years.
02:56And I would say that her image was very much that of girl next door,
03:00which, of course, gives her an accessibility to viewers.
03:03And the nature of daytime television is that you get viewers
03:07that watch it all the time, and they start to sort of feel
03:09that you're sort of part of their family.
03:16One viewer is determined to take that familiarity
03:19to a new and terrifying level.
03:21Gavin Plum was a severely obese man in his 30s from Harlow in Essex.
03:30He was previously featured on various documentaries
03:33about weight loss for the BBC.
03:35I only really go out my front door to put a bin bag in the...
03:40a bin just outside the flat, and that's every few days.
03:44When I'm in pain, the pain gets so bad that I physically...
03:48It's crippling.
03:49It is physically crippling.
03:51Because he's spending so much time at home,
03:55he's exposed to a lot of daytime television.
03:58Holly Willoughby is essentially...
04:00She has been the face of daytime TV for many, many years.
04:03And most days, she's on his screen,
04:06and he develops this obsession with her.
04:08He gets really, really into wanting to meet her
04:14and then subject her to horrific forms of violence.
04:21More than 4,000 miles away, a police officer specialising in online investigations
04:31dials into an internet chat room and spots something suspicious.
04:36We don't know his real name.
04:39He used the pseudonym David Nelson.
04:41He is an officer based in Minnesota in the USA as part of a unit which specialises in covert operations online,
04:49looking into potential groups that are organising acts of violence,
04:54acts of terrorism, human trafficking, sexual violence, all of that sort of thing.
04:58The real dark underbelly of the internet.
05:00The undercover officer was online and had seen some pictures posted of Holly Willoughby,
05:06and there was quite an alarming caption saying, like, the one that I want.
05:13He really thought he was going to get her, and I believe that's what caught the officer's eye.
05:17And then, of course, he's investigated it a little bit further and pursued what he had in front of him.
05:22The internet chat room is titled Abduct Lovers, posting pictures of Holly,
05:33the user calling himself BigBear341987.
05:38Real name, Gavin Plum, now being secretly pursued by undercover officer David Nelson.
05:46And at this point, David Nelson, he's not aware of who Holly Willoughby is.
05:52He's based in America. He doesn't really have much exposure to the UK television scene.
05:57So he's seeing all these photos, and then he's seeing Plum's messages about her,
06:01about what he wants to do to her.
06:04That officer acted very quickly.
06:07I mean, he's from the States. I don't even know if he knew who Holly was,
06:11but he absolutely knew that what he was seeing online was very serious.
06:16I think for Nelson, he's probably seen a relatively young, very attractive blonde lady.
06:24You know, she's beautiful, isn't she?
06:26Don't forget, this cop will also be naturally inquisitive.
06:29He's a police officer. We're all keen to learn more and want to know what people are doing.
06:33So I think he's probably seen the pictures, seen the caption,
06:37and felt the threat was imminent and that he was going to act on it.
06:46I think he's a police officer.
06:48Encouraged by David Nelson's interest, Gavin Plum reveals more.
06:54Plum even shares a video of his equipment spread out,
06:58so the chloroform, the cable ties, the handcuffs, all that sort of thing.
07:01He'd bought 400 cable ties.
07:15He'd gone into detail about the address of where she lived.
07:18He was talking about moving Holly once she was unconscious.
07:21I think that's probably the point.
07:23You thought, hang on, this guy's a bit serious.
07:25Growing more convinced the plot is real,
07:34undercover officer Nelson raises the stakes.
07:38To gain the trust of Gavin Plum, Nelson claims that he's really interested to come over to the UK
07:45from the USA to help him out. And he even goes as far as presenting Plum with a picture
07:51of a ticket, a flight ticket to the UK. It's not a real one, but it's enough to convince Plum
07:57that he's serious about coming over here, to which Plum gets very excited.
08:01And the message Plum sends back once he's had all this is,
08:04shit, it's actually happening. And it goes from there.
08:09Obviously, he's engaged with him a little bit, which he would do.
08:11You'd tickle it and see what's happening.
08:13He pushed it a little bit further.
08:15He learns Big Bear's real name is Gavin Plum. And here's his plan, to render Holly and her husband
08:24unconscious, then kidnap the TV star from her home in West London.
08:30He's talking about logistics, that it's a night, where they're going to take her to,
08:34how they're going to subdue her. And it's all, what he's talking about is horrific.
08:42Unknown to Gavin Plum, he's being recorded.
08:45Right, plan of action. I'll give you a brief rundown.
08:52Don't worry, mate. We've got that sorted. It's all going to be done.
08:55What we're going to do is this, this and this.
08:57Basically, we're going to hit it at night.
09:04Less traffic on the road, et cetera. Chloroforms, both of them.
09:10That way, then, they can both be easily restrained.
09:13From a professional standpoint, of course, you have to take these threats seriously. He's saying
09:19he's going to do it. So why would we not believe it?
09:22We're then going to force her to make a video, just saying that she's with us under our own free
09:28will. And she's really consenting into everything we do to her. So that covers us.
09:35This absolutely had to be taken seriously because he was having conversations online
09:43in a forum called Abduck Lovers. And he was having a conversation with an undercover police officer,
09:50basically saying, this is what I want to do. We're going to go there in the night.
09:53We need two lots of chloroform. He knew that she didn't have CCTV on her house.
10:00I mean, he had a level of detail that was quite astounding.
10:05I still think my place might be better because there's cameras everywhere. It's just a temporary
10:10thing. Hold her here. You've got bed. You've got warmth, et cetera. Need you there, mate,
10:15obviously. The chloroform bit's going to be fun. Picking the outfits is going to be fun.
10:19So if you can get to the UK, to England, that'd be awesome, because then you can be part of it.
10:27David Nelson, an undercover police officer from the other side of the world,
10:31he's probably sat back for a minute and thought, I've just come across something here that I was
10:35not expecting today. Plum was certain that he wanted to do this. Nelson felt that the threat
10:41was imminent and that he was going to act on it. There is a lot of evidence in this case that they
10:46need to get quickly.
11:043rd and the 10th of 2023, Holly.
11:09Gavin Plum is confident he's found an accomplice to help him kidnap ITV This Morning presenter,
11:15Holly Willoughby.
11:20But Plum doesn't know that he's been tricked by an undercover officer in the USA,
11:25using the false name of David Nelson.
11:30Nelson felt the threats coming from Plum were imminent. You know, Plum had said how excited he
11:35was. You could tell how excited he was.
11:37Right. Plan of action. I'll give you a brief rundown. Basically, we're going to hit it at night.
11:46Less traffic on the road, et cetera.
11:49Thank goodness that A, Gavin Plum ended up speaking to an undercover officer in America,
11:55and B, that that officer acted very quickly and he reported it to the FBI.
12:00The US authorities under the instructions of David Nelson will have informed Scotland Yard,
12:13and then go and investigate him immediately.
12:26Because Plum is based in Essex, Scotland Yard passed this intelligence to Essex Police,
12:30who then trace Plum's address, and they go to his address to arrest him.
12:41The arrest team is instructed to take no chances.
12:45Essex Police don't know how dangerous he is. He could have weapons. So they have literally gone
12:50in, all weapons blazing, to make sure that he is secured as soon as they can climb by someone.
12:56They actually arrested him at night, which is very rare. You would normally wait, you know,
13:00a good six o'clock in the morning, knock on the door, where you know he's going to be at home.
13:04But they didn't want to waste a second with him, which tells you quite a lot.
13:07They wanted to get into the address. They wanted to secure all of the devices
13:11and get him in custody before there was either things deleted or he went out to try and commit
13:16this offence. There was a lot of officers there. Again, I think that's probably to do with the
13:20search of the property rather than the physical arrest of Plum. Here they go.
13:29Police! Stay where you are. Do not touch anything.
13:32What's going on? What the hell is going on?
13:37This is what my colleague has got to say. Right, you're under arrest on suspicion of conspiracy.
13:41Yes. You do not have to say anything.
13:43She's got the cuff straight on him, the arresting officer. She's literally walked in and cuffed him
13:47before she's even said anything to him. The room is a complete hit. There's just stuff
13:53absolutely everywhere. And he's obviously not got much clothing on, unfortunately.
13:58What is going on?
14:00What are you talking about?
14:01What are you talking about?
14:02I'm not going to mention. We're only five years after it's too late for our internet.
14:03I'm looking to do so well.
14:04What are you talking about?
14:05Can you tell me you're talking about it?
14:06All right.
14:07You're getting new, right? All right.
14:08Yeah, you're a very jazzy.
14:11Well, there's expertise for the arrest to allow for a conscious investigation by
14:14and to give them any sort of physical harm to the person.
14:19To who?
14:20OK, we'll talk about it.
14:21To who? Can you please explain to me what the hell is going on?
14:25It's like when he's asking, what is going on? Like, he already knows what's happening,
14:29but he's trying to make out he doesn't. Like, he's doing this force. It seems really forced and overacting.
14:35To who?
14:36To who? Can you please explain to me what the hell is going on?
14:42But it's like he does know already. And then when she's explaining it to him,
14:47he's just like pretending he's all like shocked and trying to do these facial expressions,
14:51but it's not really convincing.
14:53Yeah, so at the moment, you're under arrest for conspiracy to keep that.
14:57Who?
14:57Holly Willoughby.
14:58I don't think those ones are warm.
15:01He realises that the police may well have a lot of information on him
15:05that he thought was completely anonymous and private.
15:09And at that point, the penny is dropping that he's in very, very hot water.
15:15He was trying to work out in his own head what his story was going to be.
15:18The officer was very good with him. She was explaining that you're going to be arrested,
15:22you're going to be interviewed over the threats of kidnap for Holly Willoughby.
15:26That's the allegation.
15:31Already, it looks like he's thinking where have they got that information from,
15:34who's told them, what one of my accomplices that I've been speaking to has told them this.
15:39It's like he feels like someone sort of like grasped him up or dobbed him in rather than
15:43actually you've done it all yourself and unravelled this yourself.
15:47It's like he's a bit confused by it.
15:48What's that gone from?
15:50Like I said, it will be explained to you in custody and you'll be interviewed about it.
15:53I'm not going to tell you any further than that at this current time, okay?
15:57Okay, then.
15:57But that is the allegation.
16:00I'm not going to lie, she's a fantasy of mine.
16:05Yeah, I'm not going to lie, she's a fantasy of mine.
16:08She's a fantasy of a lot of guys, isn't she?
16:10For someone who then goes on to plead not guilty, you would think that perhaps that's not
16:14guilty.
16:15I'm not going to lie, she's a fantasy of mine.
16:19I mean, she's a fantasy of a lot of guys, isn't she?
16:24For someone who then goes on to plead not guilty, you would think that perhaps that's not the
16:40right thing to say when you're accused of wanting to try and kidnap her.
16:45That'd be the last thing on your mind if you're getting arrested for kidnap.
16:48This is serious, but all he still wants to talk about is that he fancies her and he's obviously
16:53crazy, like he's absolutely deluded.
16:56He's almost pretty much banged to right straight away.
17:00It's damning, it's damning.
17:04Gavin Plum then appears to cooperate,
17:07but knows the arrest team is close to finding even more compelling evidence.
17:13Mate, if you haven't looked at what I'm opening this boat here, I'm just about to go to this.
17:18The reason they're going to try that is because of the offence that you've been arrested for,
17:21we need to make sure that we can gather as much evidence as we can as quickly as we can.
17:24They need to secure all the evidence before anything is potentially tampered with or moved.
17:30And they were right to do that because they broke in and he had no time to put his phone away.
17:34Do you have to put the door in to secure the evidence?
17:37All right.
17:37You've got no reason.
17:40His phone was right there with these chat logs open.
17:42So that's very crucial evidence which they captured straight away.
17:50Now police build a much bigger case that Gavin Plum planned not just kidnap, but also rape and murder.
18:00So we're in the cells now and Plum is a very different man to how he was.
18:04When police were breaking down his door.
18:11I think deep down he probably at this point knows what he's done is illegal,
18:17but he's not willing to admit that and he still hasn't to this day.
18:21After the arrest, the key question for the trial, was Gavin Plum a serious threat?
18:37Gavin Plum is over 30 stone. He's very much obese, not physically capable in the slightest.
18:43And then he is talking about vaulting a wall around someone's house, breaking into their house,
18:50subduing Holly and her husband, then taking Holly away, bundling her into a car.
18:56All of this without any alarm being raised.
19:00So the defence went very hard on the notion that this was a fantasy.
19:10The prosecution claimed that despite his size, Gavin Plum did intend to kidnap Holly Willoughby.
19:16Hearing all these facts of cable ties, chloroform, day-to-day living cameras,
19:23he's got somebody flying from America to help him. His excuse of his weight isn't going to cut it.
19:29He had intent. He was going to carry this out and he had got someone with more physical ability to help him.
19:34And yes, the defence are saying he, you know, he can't physically do it.
19:39No, he couldn't, but he had asked someone else to do it with him.
19:44You might look at Gavin Plum and think this man could never, you know,
19:47he's not even going to leave his house. How could he do any harm on anybody?
19:51Anybody who thinks that has never been the victim of a stalker, for a start.
19:57You know, their actions get inside your head.
20:00And when they know where you live and when they have a level of detail about your life
20:05that they really shouldn't have because they've gone looking for it
20:08and they obviously have means of getting it, trust me, it's very serious.
20:14And it should be treated as such.
20:20A 37-year-old man has been jailed for life, serving a minimum of 16 years,
20:26for plotting to kidnap, rape and murder television presenter Holly Willoughby.
20:32Gavin Plum, from Harlow in Essex, assembled a toolkit for highly sexualised violence.
20:39But he was arrested after he unwittingly disclosed his plans online
20:44to an undercover police officer in the US.
20:48Speaking from experience, Officer Nelson did an incredible job.
20:53I think he's used his investigative ability and his, you know, his mindset was fantastic
20:58because he just knew it was something to work with.
21:02And I think he did exactly the right thing.
21:06It was revealed that everywhere he went, Gavin Plum was a danger.
21:11Twice, carrying imitation guns, he tried to kidnap women on local trains.
21:16At the nearby shopping precinct, he imprisoned two 16-year-old girls.
21:23After his arrest, police found 10,000 photographs of Holly Willoughby in his flat.
21:33What struck me about Gavin Plum when I first saw the arrest footage
21:38was just how sort of mundane and ordinary he seemed and to think that somebody like that had such
21:48a terrible impact on the life of somebody much loved by the nation was almost hard to believe at first.
21:56After 14 years, Holly Willoughby left this morning immediately after the arrest of Gavin Plum.
22:06Her statement said,
22:07I now feel I have to make this decision for me and my family.
22:12Today, an ITV spokesperson has released a statement saying,
22:17this news has come as a huge shock to everyone at this morning at ITV.
22:21We are providing all of the support we can to Holly and her family at this incredibly distressing time.
22:29Everyone I know messaged Holly just to say,
22:32we are so sorry that you're going through this and, you know, hope you're OK.
22:39I mean, it's terrifying and she's got young children and all she does is appear on television,
22:45do her job, go home, does the school run and to be subjected to this sort of psychological terror,
22:54actually, that's what it is. No one deserves that. And, you know, it absolutely should be treated very
23:01seriously by both the police and the judiciary. And then I'm very glad that in this case, it was.
23:15I just found a body. Right, OK. A body, is it? Are they breathing?
23:28No, they're dead. They look like they've possibly been there, like, a few days or something.
23:33Right. Right, OK, bear me a second. Let's pop this on.
23:37Police were called to a report of a body found near the Bennet Road area of Solcombe on the 27th of June.
23:48Our initial inquiries have identified that female as Mi Chong, a 67-year-old from the Wembley area of London,
23:55who was reported missing in London on the 11th of June.
24:01For 16 days, Mi Chong, known as Deborah Chong, has been missing.
24:069 days later, police go to arrest a suspect.
24:20In this case, their suspicion fell on Gemma Mitchell.
24:25It was a dramatic police rage. They turned up at her house. They rammed the door down.
24:31Police!
24:39Hello there. Hello there.
24:43Yeah, good.
24:45There's no answer.
24:46Sorry, what's your name?
24:48Oh, Gemma, I'm asleep.
24:49Are you Gemma?
24:50Yeah, I'm not.
24:51OK, Gemma, just give you a second.
24:53Come on, call on a second.
24:55Gemma, do you want to come off?
24:57Do you want to come off?
24:58Yeah, sure, sure.
24:58Yeah, I'm just trying to see them.
24:59I'm just trying to see your hands.
25:01All right, Gemma, at this moment, I'm resting on a suspicion of murder.
25:04OK, you don't have to say anything, but you may hold your fence.
25:06If you want to mention one question, something which you later rely on in court.
25:08Anything you do say, they'll be given the evidence, OK?
25:11Once you're in the cuffs.
25:14OK, explain everything to you.
25:16OK?
25:16Should I get some cheese?
25:17Yeah, sorry.
25:18If you want to, one sec.
25:20Who's inside at the moment?
25:21I'm mother.
25:22Your mother?
25:23OK.
25:27As an investigator, a murder investigator for me, this was one of the most important stages
25:33of an investigation, is that arrest.
25:36All right, Gemma, at this moment, I'm resting on a suspicion of murder.
25:39There's no replicating, standing in front of them, delivering those words,
25:44and looking at them in the eye.
25:46How do they respond?
25:48What am I seeing?
25:49Gemma Mitchell's reaction, for me, is one of a guilty person.
25:54OK.
25:54Should I get some cheese?
25:55Yeah, sorry.
25:55What?
25:56If you want to, one sec.
25:58There's no questions being put to the officer.
26:00There's no shock.
26:02There's no reaction that I would expect to see in someone who's completely innocent,
26:07being arrested for the most serious crime you can be arrested for, and just accepting it.
26:12I wouldn't, would you?
26:13Gemma Mitchell was born in Australia.
26:18She was highly educated.
26:20She then came over to the UK with her mother when her parents separated.
26:25She started to study at King's College London in human sciences.
26:29And significantly, there was a module within that course where she learned to dissect a human body.
26:37She also was a trained osteopath, and she was a devout Christian.
26:43Gemma Mitchell and Deborah Chong met through a church group.
26:47Both of them committed devout Christians.
26:51Very quickly, over a few months, they became very close friends, and there is evidence of that.
26:58There were hundreds of messages sent between the two of them.
27:17Deborah Chong has been missing all day.
27:19Deborah's lodger then arrives at home in the evening, and he notices that Deborah's not there.
27:28He notices also that her glasses and her mobile phone are still in the house.
27:35And he rings police and reports her as missing.
27:38The next day, the lodger decided to message Deborah's good friend, Gemma Mitchell,
27:51just to see whether she had an idea of where Deborah could be.
27:54And Mitchell responded with a text message saying that Deborah decided to go away.
28:00She'd gone to visit friends, and she was going there for a year, and it was somewhere near the ocean.
28:08And that message clearly from Gemma was to try to reassure this lodger.
28:14For two weeks, no-one sees or hears anything from Deborah Chong.
28:21But when her body is discovered in the seaside resort of Sulcombe, Devon,
28:26a murder inquiry begins 200 miles away in London.
28:31It will be the Metropolitan Police responsibility for investigating the crime,
28:36because given all the circumstances, that is where the murder is likely to have taken place.
28:41A murder investigation team of roughly about 20 detectives.
28:46One of the most important roles in this investigation would be that of the CCTV officer,
28:51which would be a detective constable, and it would be their responsibility to collect CCTV,
28:56and then viewing it, understanding what the footage shows.
29:04The CCTV in this case was hugely important, especially around the movements of Gemma Mitchell.
29:11On June 11th 2021, Gemma decides to leave her house quite early on in the morning at around half past six.
29:29Gemma Mitchell was seen pulling a suitcase behind her, a large suitcase,
29:33that quite clearly was empty, because it was easy for her to lift and manoeuvre.
29:40And she's sort of just strolling along the street.
29:43She is about to get on a train.
29:50Next, police discover CCTV showing Gemma Mitchell wearing a face mask and a beanie.
29:56She is taking that suitcase to Deborah Chung's house.
30:09She's then spotted leaving the house, dragging along not one, but two suitcases.
30:17When she had taken it from her house, she didn't have any problems dragging it along.
30:24After she left Deborah's house, it's very clear she's having difficulty trying to drag it along.
30:30It looks very heavy, and she's having difficulty manoeuvring it.
30:35One of them had the body of Deborah Chung. Gemma had just murdered her.
30:41It was clearly something in there that was very heavy, and she's having to stop.
30:48And then she phoned someone. She was struggling to move it. She had to kick the wheels to get it to move.
30:56She then tries to get a taxi at one point.
31:00The other suitcase she's got in that suitcase were lots and lots of documents,
31:05personal documents belonging to Deborah.
31:12In this bit of footage, she's left one of the suitcases on the edge of the verge,
31:17and she's dragging up the other suitcase.
31:20And then she spends a good couple of hours dragging the suitcase, which had Deborah's body in it.
31:33A taxi arrives. The driver needs help loading the heavy case into the boot.
31:38It will be 16 days before it's seen again.
31:53It will be 16 days before it's seen again.
31:55It's a very beautiful place with lots of sandy beaches and a reputation for some really expensive houses.
32:11Remember, this was not long after Covid as well. This is June 2021, where people would have been
32:18enjoying their staycations, perhaps unable to go abroad, and just really wanting to have a bit of relaxation time
32:24by the coast. And what better place to go than beautiful Salcum?
32:29It is about as far as you can imagine from the type of place where you would expect to find a body.
32:37This body looks like it's been there some time because of the amount of decomposition she can see.
32:41Gemma Mitchell had kept the body at her house in London,
32:45and she's been there some time, and she's been there some time.
32:47This body looks like it's been there some time because of the amount of decomposition she can see.
32:53Gemma Mitchell had kept the body at her house in London for two weeks, and most of the decomposition would have occurred there.
33:14To cover up her murder of Deborah Chong, Gemma Mitchell devised an extraordinary plan.
33:33She hired a car in a false name. She left her phone at home so that she was leaving no trail,
33:40in her mind, of going to Salcum in Devon, which is about 200 miles from London, so a huge distance.
33:48And she hired quite a large car, a Volvo SUV.
33:55Detectives discover more CCTV, this time recording Gemma Mitchell near home,
34:01loading a suitcase into the hire car.
34:07She's trying to lift it up, having a lot of difficulty. It's clearly very heavy,
34:12with Deborah's body in, into the back of the car.
34:17She keys into the sat-nav Sulcum North Sands Cliff Road.
34:25But close to her destination, a problem, a flat tyre.
34:31She was helped by an AA technician at a garage a few miles outside Salcum.
34:39And he noted how there was a smell in the car, and how when he came to put the spare wheel back
34:45in its normal place, Gemma Mitchell was deeply uncomfortable with that, and asked him instead
34:51to put it on the back seat. Something he said he remembered thinking was very strange at the time.
34:57But we can only assume that the reason Gemma Mitchell did not want that wheel to go back in
35:02its rightful place was that the body, or at least some parts of it, were in the boot of her car.
35:09Next, police find CCTV of Gemma Mitchell's hire car heading towards the seafront.
35:18And she drives around a bit there, and then she makes a decision to dump Deborah's body in Woodland.
35:34About 40 minutes after she arrives, her car that she's using is seen again,
35:39leaving the area, and then she makes her way back to London.
35:46And I just found a body.
35:50But there is an even more gruesome fact about the discovery.
35:55The head is missing.
35:56It took some time and a police search to find Deborah's head some ten feet away from Deborah's body.
36:18Gemma Mitchell was a trained osteopath, and she got a first-class honours degree at King's College.
36:26And as part of her training, she learned how to dissect human bodies.
36:34This was an idyllic seaside place that general crime doesn't happen, let alone murders.
36:41Let alone murders involved bodies with decapitated heads.
36:45When she murdered and dismembered Deborah, Gemma Mitchell suffered an injury herself.
37:00This would give the police video team more evidence.
37:04This is inside St Thomas' Hospital, and you can see she's got something wrapped around one of her fingers.
37:14Almost certainly in the process of attacking, killing and subduing Deborah, she'd broken her finger.
37:23It would have been a spanner in the works, if you like, so she would have had to have thought about,
37:27well, under what circumstances could I have broken my finger?
37:30And she told the hospital that it's because she had shut her finger in a car door.
37:40All right, Gemma, at this moment, I'm resting on suspicion of murder.
37:42During the arrest, the bandaging is still visible on Gemma Mitchell's left hand.
37:48I'm going to explain everything to you.
37:50OK?
37:51Shall I get some cheese?
37:52No, sorry.
37:52What?
37:53It's just one moment in an arrest that points to Gemma Mitchell's guilt.
38:08What we see is the officers are turning up with what is referred to in the Metropolitan Police as an enforcer.
38:16Essentially, it's like a battering ram.
38:18I think the decision to use the enforcer was because they wanted to get hold of the evidence
38:25before Gemma Mitchell could destroy it.
38:27Gemma, do you want to come up?
38:28Yes, sure, sure.
38:30All right.
38:31Hands, just so to your hands.
38:32All right, Gemma.
38:32As soon as Gemma Mitchell comes to the door, she's compliant.
38:36She's not in a panic.
38:37She's not violent.
38:38She's not obstructing them in any way.
38:41So that allows them to then engage with her in terms of why they are there.
38:46All right, Gemma, at this moment.
38:47I'm resting on a suspicion of murder.
38:49OK, you don't have to say anything.
38:51She physically kind of moves back.
38:53She's almost surprised.
38:55Clearly, it's all an act, but she is very calm and a real contrast to how the police tried to
39:01knock down the front door in her house.
39:06Inside, police discover the documents taken away in the second suitcase.
39:10Financial records of Deborah Chong's £700,000 estate, recently updated.
39:17They find a will that was forged by Gemma, and the will said that 95% of Deborah's estate would be left to Gemma,
39:28and 5% would be left to Gemma's mother.
39:31That will was forged after Gemma murdered Deborah, so that was a really significant piece of information that they found at the property.
39:42Significant, police found, because Gemma Mitchell was banking on money that Deborah had offered her.
39:48The roof of Gemma Mitchell's house needed fixing, but she claimed she was out of money.
39:55Deborah offered Gemma around £200,000 to help her renovate and finish the work on Gemma's house.
40:03At one point, Deborah went to have a look at Gemma's house, and it was a complete tip.
40:08It was like a building site, and it was that visit that seemed to change her mind.
40:14Deborah said to Gemma, I'm not going to give you the money.
40:18There was a message exchanged between the two of them, and Deborah was clearly telling Gemma to sell the house,
40:25and that clearly triggered something in Gemma.
40:30Gemma Mitchell was determined to get the money promised to her by Deborah.
40:36Gemma Mitchell decided to hatch a plan where she would take that money anyway,
40:41but that would involve murdering Deborah.
40:47Deborah Chong, detectives learned, had been a vulnerable target.
40:51She had a number of mental health issues. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
40:58She also was referred to a local community mental health centre,
41:03and that was because she was sending messages to the then Prince Charles.
41:08She thought that she could communicate with him through YouTube.
41:11She was also sending messages as well to Boris Johnson.
41:14So she was a vulnerable woman who was trusting of other people.
41:21In custody, Gemma Mitchell is questioned about driving Deborah's dead body to Sulcombe,
41:28and her strange behaviour when her car had to be fixed.
41:33And Nev said that the person driving the Volvo waited in the car all that time,
41:41with the windows down, and the front door opened, the passenger door opened,
41:48when it was literally chucking it down with rain and it was windy.
41:54Why is that, Gemma?
41:57No comment.
41:58The car stank, didn't it, Gemma?
42:01No comment.
42:02Stunk of a dead person.
42:04No comment.
42:05Stunk of Deborah's decomposing body.
42:08Is that right, Gemma?
42:13Is that right, Gemma?
42:14No.
42:15No comment.
42:20At the Old Bailey today, a woman has been found guilty of murder
42:25and jailed for life, serving a minimum of 34 years.
42:29Gemma Mitchell, aged 38, an osteopath from North West London, murdered a fellow churchgoer
42:36and concealed her body 200 miles away.
42:41I covered the trial and it was gruesome, grisly details that were really horrific.
42:48All right, Gemma, at this moment, I'm resting on a suspicion of murder.
42:52OK, do you have to say anything?
42:53This case was about the ultimate betrayal of friendship.
42:58And it's not every day you see a case like that at the Old Bailey,
43:02you know, one so horrific where you're listening to evidence about a woman being murdered
43:07and then decapitated by her friend, stuffed in a suitcase, and then her body dumped in woodland.
43:22Toiletson is easily killed, with a woman being murdered and hurt.
43:31Toiletson is well, you know, a woman being murdered and who was born,
43:34can't be alien ì €, where he's been murdered, though, and the only one's most likely killed.
43:37Toiletson is arguably a reality of murder, the one's most likely for the life of a victim.
43:39Toiletson is a memory of a man being murdered, the one's wanted to be killed.
43:40Toiletson is not the one's most likely to happen,
43:41the poor man having or the one's more likely to a woman being murdered.
43:44Toiletson is an animal that are buried, there is no place in an animal campsite.
43:48Toiletson is an animal to keep his mother's blood from the man behind him.
43:49Toiletson is good.
43:50Transcription by CastingWords
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