A millionaire's daughter was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in jail on Wednesday after being found guilty of killing an elderly woman. What lay behind the killing of Anne Mendel?
Eighteen pages of neatly hand-written notes found in Kemi Adeyoola's prison cell describe in graphic detail her murderous plan to get rich quick.
Entitled "Prison and After. Making Life Count", the manual talks of finding a wealthy and elderly victim who she would rob and kill.
"She must be wealthy, quite elderly and defenceless," it said of the potential victim.
She talked of finding a victim to rob and kill. This would involve staking out houses worth millions of pounds in isolated areas.
The teenager said it was a work of fiction inspired by her fascination for crime writers James Patterson and Martina Cole.
But an Old Bailey jury disagreed in favour of the prosecution's view that it was a blueprint for murder.
They found the 18-year-old, of Camden, north London, guilty of murdering 84-year-old Anne Mendel at her home in Golders Green in north-west London.
Grisly plan
Sir Allan Green, QC prosecuting, said the significance of the "horror" script was only appreciated when Adeyoola was linked to the brutal attack.
"We say there is written evidence that Kemi had earlier written out plans to murder an elderly woman and steal from that woman's home," he told the court.
The prosecution said Adeyoola had chosen Mrs Mendel as a "soft target" on which to practise before finding a "rich, elderly and defenceless" woman to kill for her money.
" I asked whether she had considered what the intention was before writing the book"
It listed items required for her grisly plan, including guns, silencers, bullet-proof vests, drugs, two sharp knives, a Jamie Oliver baby blue scooter and handcuffs.
The victim would first be watched: "Visit them disguised as an A-level student from a nearby school," said the notes.
The victim would be attacked as she arrived home under the cover of darkness.
"Show the knife to her - then place it against her throat."
The woman would be injected with a tranquiliser and quizzed about bank account PINs and safe combinations.
She would be forced to write a letter telling her husband she was leaving him for someone else.
She would then be killed - her head and limbs cut off with a butcher's knife and put in cling film and black bags and dumped in bins.
An alternative plan was to drive the victim to the top of a cliff, slit her throat, set fire to the car and send it over the edge.
Defensive and arrogant
Adeyoola was quizzed by prison authorities who were concerned after finding the notes in her cell at Bullwood Hall in October 2004.
Forensic psychologist Lydia Sear said: "There was concern what was behind it. She would not explain herself."
But Adeyoola refused to be drawn on her book.
Miss Sear said: "She was defensive, arrogant and assertive. She was asked 'Is this something you are going to do?'
"She said: 'I want it back - it's a story'. I asked whether she had considered what the intention was before writing the book.
"She refused to answer. She left the room."
A psychiatric report carried out after the discovery of the document said there was nothing to suggest she was capable of such violence.
"The psychiatric report did not predict any likely occurrence of this," said a spokesman for Barnet Youth Offending Team.
"Once her supervision was completed, there was no mechanism for stopping her re-offending."
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