London. A 30-year-old woman has admitted stabbing three men to death before dumping their bodies in ditches.
Joanna Dennehy, from Peterborough, stunned the Old Bailey with her shock guilty pleas this morning, with even her own barrister taken by surprise.
‘The course of the arraignment is not one we had anticipated,’ Nigel Lickley QC told the court. Dennehy, who appearing in court wearing a white T-shirt and with a star tattoo under her eye, told trial judge Mr Justice Sweeney: ‘I’ve pleaded guilty, and that’s that.’
She admitted the murders of Kevin Lee, 48, Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, and John Chapman, 56, whose
bodies were found with multiple stab wounds between March and April this year in Cambridgeshire.
Dennehy also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of two other men – Robin Bereza and John
Rogers – and preventing the lawful and decent burial of her three victims.
She was flanked in the dock by security guards as she appeared in court alongside fellow defendant
Gary Richards. Mr Richards, who is 2.2m (7ft 3in) tall, denies three charges of preventing burial and two attempted murders.
