Police are searching for a dismembered torso after a woman was allegedly murdered, cut up with power tools and dumped in a park.
Remains belonging to Sarah Mayhew, 38, were found in Rowdown Fields in New Addington, south London last Tuesday.
A dog walker saw that his dog had unearthed a human bone, so he called the police.
Subsequently, a head, legs, and arms were discovered close by, and Ms. Mayhew’s DNA was used to confirm their identity.
The Old Bailey heard that the victim’s torso is still being sought after by the police.
Following their arrest on Saturday, Gemma Watts, 48, and Steven Sansom, 44, were accused of killing her and obstructing her rightful burial.
The duo is accused of killing Ms. Mayhew at a home before using power tools to dismember her body.
The victim’s cause of death is yet unknown.
Upon examining her body, it was discovered that she had shaved her head, suffered bruises to her skull, and had two little broken vertebrae in her voicebox.
On March 8th, in the evening, Ms. Mayhew was last observed in Sutton, a suburb of southwest London.
Sansom and Watts made separate appearances before Judge Philip Katz KC at the Old Bailey on Thursday.
Sansom from Belmarsh jail and Watts from Featherbed Lane in New Addington made their video link appearances via video link, respectively, from Bronzefield prison.
Both defendants merely said their names to verify one other, and Watts seemed to have a heavy bruise over her eye.
She and Sansom are accused of killing Ms. Mayhew at the residential property on March 8 and then getting rid of the body, according to testimony given to the court.
“This is quite a significant ongoing investigation in relation to the whereabouts of the deceased’s entire body,” said prosecutor Tom Little KC.
“There is no doubt that power tools were used to cut the deceased’s body into pieces.”
Judge Katz scheduled a provisional trial beginning on February 17 of the following year, and a plea hearing on June 27.
The defendants were remanded into custody by the Old Bailey judge.
Sansom, of Burnell Road, Sutton, in southwest London, is additionally accused of fabricating three different counts of pornographic pictures of children.
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