A female serial killer has pleaded guilty in
a British court to murdering three men
before dumping their bodies in ditches.
Joanna Dennehy admitted killing Kevin
Lee, 48, Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, and
John Chapman, 56, who were found with
multiple stab wounds between March and
April.
The 30-year-old from Peterborough also
pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to the
attempted murders of another two men,
Robin Bereza and John Rogers.
Dennehy’s shock guilty pleas left the oak-
panelled courtroom stunned.
Her barrister, Nigel Lickley QC, said: “The
course of the arraignment is not one we
had anticipated.”
Dennehy, who appeared in the dock in a
white shirt with a star tattooed under her
right eye, told the judge, Mr Justice
Sweeney: “I’ve pleaded guilty, and that’s
that.”
She also admitted “preventing the lawful
and decent burial” of all three murder
victims.
The killer, who was flanked in the dock by
security guards, appeared alongside her
boyfriend Gary Richards, who denied
three charges of preventing burial and the
two attempted murders.
Bald-headed Richards, who is 7ft 3in tall,
is also known as Gary Stretch.
Dennehy was caught after a manhunt,
during which police distributed her picture
and described her distinctive tattoo.
Two other defendants appeared at the
hearing by videolink.
Leslie Layton (aged 36) of Bifield, Orton
Goldhay, pleaded not guilty to perverting
the course of justice at an earlier hearing,
while Robert Moore (aged 55) of Belvoir
Way, Peterborough, denied assisting an
offender.
a British court to murdering three men
before dumping their bodies in ditches.
Joanna Dennehy admitted killing Kevin
Lee, 48, Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, and
John Chapman, 56, who were found with
multiple stab wounds between March and
April.
The 30-year-old from Peterborough also
pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to the
attempted murders of another two men,
Robin Bereza and John Rogers.
Dennehy’s shock guilty pleas left the oak-
panelled courtroom stunned.
Her barrister, Nigel Lickley QC, said: “The
course of the arraignment is not one we
had anticipated.”
Dennehy, who appeared in the dock in a
white shirt with a star tattooed under her
right eye, told the judge, Mr Justice
Sweeney: “I’ve pleaded guilty, and that’s
that.”
She also admitted “preventing the lawful
and decent burial” of all three murder
victims.
The killer, who was flanked in the dock by
security guards, appeared alongside her
boyfriend Gary Richards, who denied
three charges of preventing burial and the
two attempted murders.
Bald-headed Richards, who is 7ft 3in tall,
is also known as Gary Stretch.
Dennehy was caught after a manhunt,
during which police distributed her picture
and described her distinctive tattoo.
Two other defendants appeared at the
hearing by videolink.
Leslie Layton (aged 36) of Bifield, Orton
Goldhay, pleaded not guilty to perverting
the course of justice at an earlier hearing,
while Robert Moore (aged 55) of Belvoir
Way, Peterborough, denied assisting an
offender.
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